MANY OF this generation’s minds and hearts are all the more being controlled by their fascination with (even addiction to) the contents on social media platforms.
Many thousands are glued to their mobile phones and they believe and respond emotionally to anything they read or see there. It is mostly junk, banal, useless content, fake news, empty comments and jokes, or even worse, grooming minors for sexual abuse.
There is political recruitment and indoctrination, too, and of course streaming of child and adult sexual explicit images.
Viewing child or adult pornography is seriously detrimental to mental health and emotional maturity. It can be an addiction and can captivate the viewers’ mind and body. It can damage the personality of the viewer, and for many, make them unable to have a mature caring loving family relationship.
It persuades the youth that sex is love and that is all they need. They get addicted to the pornography and self-pleasuring and are incapable of making strong emotional bonds with a partner. The break-up of young families is very common.
While reflecting about mind control and so-called “mass hysteria,” consider an event in San Jose National High School in Talibon in Bohol province in the Central Visayas region on Sept. 15, 2023 when some of the 159 students in the church attending the mass began to physically react in an unusual manner described a “having seizures.” School authorities described it as “mass hysteria.”
It could have been a reaction by some students, followed by others, due to a priest giving a very terrifying “blood and thunder” sermon, frightening the young innocent students by threats of enduring terrible punishments of burning forever in the flames of hell (which does not exist) if they commit even small sins.
That kind of scary preaching is detrimental to the Gospel of love and children can be psychologically abused. However, there is no report of any such scary sermon.
So we can reasonably make the conjecture that the students ate junk contaminated snacks outside the school before going to the church, some, perhaps, even being the favorite brownie cakes containing marijuana. A mild overdose would perfectly explain the “seizures.” No one will admit such a possibility.
However, believing and declaring that the innocent children might be possessed by evil spirits is ludicrous. Branding innocent children or anyone as being possessed by evil spirits (especially during the Holy Mass in the presence of the Lord) is another form of heresy and may be counted as psychological child abuse.
There is no proof of the existence of evil spirits. It is a phrase used in past centuries to try to explain the little understood medical conditions like epilepsy before modern medicine.
Such unfounded allegations that children are evil and “possessed” or owned by the power of evil can damage their mental health and violate their moral and civil rights to good character, dignity, self-esteem, and healthy self-understanding.
Such tagging or branding children as likely possessed by evil is immoral. It is slander and psychological child abuse. They will be stigmatized and carry that terrible allegation through their lives.
If there are any “evil spirits,” they are the living clerical child sexual abusers hiding behind the robes and thrones of some bishops. That is where exorcism is badly needed in the church. (preda.org)/PN
