When I was young, I had a crush on this 17 y/o with schizophrenia (or something), and saw demons everywhere.
But, cause we lived in a fundie evangelical world, everybody believed him and acted as tho the demons were really there. He was considered to have special powers from God.
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very little compares to the horror of being a teenager in a world where both yourself and every single adult you know legitimately believes your crush is correctly perceiving demons, and then your he tells you you have 4 demons sitting on top of your house
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Man, I wish I saw demons or something. I'm Schizoaffective and 95%+ of what I hear and see is my ex. A demon would certainly be better than that.
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A friend of mine from years ago ran away from his fundamentalist JW family, partly because his father was an actual exorcist and wanted him to follow in his footsteps. Still one of the most insane things I've ever been told, as a atheist. A world I couldn't even comprehend.
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And yet* my anthropology of religion major ended up with my witnessing (from 40cm away) someone's eyesight be restored,
and conducting a (single-blinded) test of someone's reporting the changing location of a "demon." It actually checked out.
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When I was young, I had a crush on this 17 y/o with schizophrenia (or something), and saw demons everywhere.
But, cause we lived in a fundie evangelical world, everybody believed him and acted as tho the demons were really there. He was considered to have special powers from God.
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Interesting subject. I also grew up in a "fundie evangelical world"; however, as a science addict, I always thought of miracles from the perspective of science in their explanations. I'm not sure if you know Brian Greene, but I listened to his book "The Hidden Reality" some