There is a good article by Dr. Jeffrey Mirus on catholicculture.org. Chad Ripperger on prayer and praying the . Saint Thomas Aquinas put it this way. But its not on the demon lists that Ive been able to find. Its a manifestation of excellence. He is well known among Traditionalist Catholic circles and has given numerous talks around the country on various religious topics. Maybe the demons have propped this up. You would have to do eight or nine exorcisms a day every single day for nine years to reach that kind of a number. Theyre Latin. A Capital Calling for The Doloran Fathers for the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother in Colorado. Okay, Im going to have to stop a lot because in this four-minute clip, Father Ripperger puts out about 10 arguments or claims, and many of them are either misleading or theyre false. Tolkien had magic. Two, the outside world, we can seem silly to them. Hes like, Well, I would just look around in my house and say, Hey, theres a cellar door. Obviously, when youre talking about subjugating Satan, hes not getting any glory out of it. No, Erised is just desire spelled backwards, which is kind of a lazy way to get an exotic name out, but it does the trick every now and then. . I think a lot of people, actually, are apt to do that. Things like Ouija board, whose purpose is to communicate with the dead, I would say thats off limits, but Harry Potter is not like that. 27 mos. Most of these names are just regular English names. Timothy Grice, 21, shotgun suicide. Ill play a clip for you. Because, well, Boethius says so. No. Chad Ripperger correctly insists must be . I went and I looked this up. Right. Read more Other Formats:: Paperback includes tax, if applicable Buy now with 1-Click Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc. Lincoln and Omaha Sermons 20/04/2015 by Chad Ripperger ( 49 ) Because witches tell us theyre real. Robertson says no. If I know a loved one who is struggling with this kind of stuff, Im not going to bring up Harry Potter or magic if theyre struggling with temptations to do witchcraft. He can even take religion itself and make people overly pious and scrupulous, and then try to work on their inner feelings of despair to try to enter in that way. I dont think that the books glorify lying as something like, This is a great thing everybody should do. I think you have characters Theres one, Narcissa Malfoy lies to the evil Voldemort to save Harrys life. He continued: They believe the same things he does. Ripperger then seemed to claim that conservatives are on the side of the angels.. The Truth About Spiritual WarfareFr. Until then, check out next week. In that book, he says, You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. From that comes Hanlons Razor. In Tolkien, the magic was a literary device. . The devil can take anything and try to possess people. You can cancel at any time. It makes me wonder why I should trust their testimony on this issue. Actually, every time I give a conference, they ask me about Harry Potter. Why not just sit down face-to-face and have a conversation about these things? I actually just finished today a 100-minute-long interview with Brandan Robertson, who is a pastor. News tagged fr-chad-ripperger on NCRegister. ", "The voice of the unborn childrens blood is crying to God from the abortion-tainted vaccines, from the abortion-tainted medicines, he said. Trent Horn went to the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Hes a late cartoonist, fundamentalist Baptist. | May 15 2020. Otherwise, if we do, Saint Augustine in his commentary on Genesis, he criticized Christians of his day who were arguing for a literal creation theory, saying that they become a mockery to non-Christians, claiming to be experts in astronomy and the sciences when they actually are not experts in these things. Tolkien. Father Ripperger is a traditionalist priest. You have Alecto, Amycus, Daedalus, Morfin, which comes from Morpheus. Silvanus was one of Peters secretaries in Scripture. Yet people have tried to say, Well, no, Harry Potter is different than Lord of the Rings, and its really dangerous for Catholics. I havent seen, really, the evidence for this. Slytherin is based on this Its a snaky adjective that is used. AN EXORCIST ranted this week about how Democrats are possessed and in league with the devil and how they want the same goals.. I think thats the principle difficulty that we have -- people who are, for lack of a better way of putting it, that theyre basically in league with him, Ripperger said. You now what, I trust an exorcist on this matter. . So are you going to say that every stupid popular thing in the world is being inspired by demons? He's also an exorcist himself, and some people have written in comments saying, "You've done your research. But even he was prone to making sweeping claims whose validity I question. Ill read them to you, the list of the names of people in Harry Potter. Afterward, a German woman sent Cardinal Ratzinger her book, Harry Potter: Good or Evil? With that said, here is the clip with Father Ripperger, and Im going to break down whether I think the reasons he gives are persuasive or compelling. Donald Trump has continued to fight the results with legal challenges and after he called the election the greatest theft in the history of America. For example, he claimed that over a period of nine years, he performed 30,000 exorcisms. But Im very clear. Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. Lewis. The first name, I think, is Salazar, and that is related to a Portuguese dictator, is what Rowling says. I was never born with that, whereas in Tolkien, like, Oh, if I just get the one ring to rule them all, I can have all this power. I still dont see the important difference here. I would say inaccurate. They were asking these women, Hey, you practice witchcraft. Hes anti-everything, especially anti-Catholics. Now, this is extremely misleading on Father Rippergers part. All Formats Kindle Edition Paperback Hardcover Sort by: Popularity. View our online Press Pack. I hate that. ", Fr. According to the traditionalist Catholic news website Church Militant, Ripperger founded a traditional group of exorcist priests called the Doloran Fathers. Of a person who was possessed by five demons who claimed that they were the demons that inspired J.K. Rowling to write Harry Potter. When people say, Well, Cardinal Ratzinger was opposed to these books, well, no, he just politely responded to an author who wrote a book saying Harry Potter is bad. The only one that I could find, and this may be where Father Ripperger, or the person hes spoken with, gets that information from, is an anonymous article on the internet from someone claiming to be an ex-witch who practiced in the 1960s. I just want to play a clip for you because, also, I think the movie is hilarious. Just as a few people who play Dungeons & Dragons resort to suicide, that could just show some people who are suicidal are apt to play this game. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Father Chad Ripperger, an American Catholic priest, claims Democrats are 'in league with the devil', Ripperger, an exorcist, said the devil was 'using people who are not leading morally good lives', Ripperger was reportedly asked to leave the Tulsa, Oklahoma diocese and moved to Denver, Colorado, The exorcist claimed that Democrats have committed crimes that have caused 'tremendous damage, that have basically involved treason', Ripperger also seemed to claim that conservatives are 'on the side of the angels', Trump questioned over doctor who he promoted online, that claims gyno problems are caused by dream sex with demons, an interview with the U.S. Grace Force podcast, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). pic.twitter.com/MX7Ab3EyRQ, Ripperger then claimed, "We saw that with COVID," when mayors around the country were setting aside constitutional rights of the citizens., The exorcist went on to allege that tremendous crimes caused by Democrats have caused tremendous damage, that have basically involved treason.. I think this is really traced to that anonymous letter that I read to you earlier. I suggest that any good and intelligent Church official, if he had not read the Potter books, would have responded in precisely this way.. Ill post it on the website. All right, so for the episode today, where I disagree. Ive been praying and fasting for you. No one else has made this claim, actually, that J.K. Rowling went to a witch school, she practices Wicca, shes part of a coven of witches. ( . Lewis and J.R.R. . Theres spells, theres magic in Lord of the Rings. I would disagree with that. Father Ripperger has . Its garbage. Chad Ripperger, Ph.D. is a priest, an exorcist, and the founder of an order of exorcists known as the Dolorans. $49.89 $ 49. popular on all continents. pic.twitter.com/MX7Ab3EyRQ, Ripperger then claimed, "We saw that with COVID," when mayors around the country were setting aside constitutional rights of the citizens., The exorcist went on to allege that tremendous crimes caused by Democrats have caused tremendous damage, that have basically involved treason.. He belongs to the FSSP, the Fraternal Society of Saint Peter. The society have plans of building a Chapel and we can make this possible with our donations. No, no, Im just making fun of conspiracy thinking here. Paperback. The speaker came out of witchcraft, and he knows what youre up against. If you read Lord of the Rings, with the spells in there, or Aslan the lion, an imposter for Jesus, and the spells that take place, and magic, in Chronicles of Narnia, youre halfway to hell. When people try to rip the rug out from under their feet, they can get defensive about it. Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a creationist in such a way that someone wont mistake for the genuine article. That deals with creationism, but Poes Law has a wider view, that sometimes its impossible to distinguish between a parody and real fundamentalism. Its a spiritual warfare that you cant win without the Lord Jesus. Over the last couple of weeks, the focus of the COVID-19 debate seems to have shifted amongst Christians in general, and some Catholics in particular from the moral liceity of abortion-tainted vaccines and pharmaceuticals to the dangers of the shots. I went through in the previous episode, I listed some of the spells and read them to you. Aye, but no true Scotsman hates haggis.. When you look at them, theyre just Latin. Cellar door, cellar door, Celador. Then youre off to the races. . Well, let me get to that, whether the names of devils or demons or not. However, what I do care about are Catholics who say that there are books or movies or television shows that are off limits to us, that are spiritually dangerous, and put up these warnings and burdens on peoples consciences that dont actually have to be there, especially if they use exaggeration or false statements to bolster their view, because that can place an unnecessary burden on Catholics who are worried about sin, and it can make us look silly to non-Catholics. Is it a demon? You have permission to edit this article. When youre seven or eight, you think, Yes, right hand, red circle. Now youre like, Uh, we probably shouldnt play this with everybody, when you grow up and you start to see things. I played Twister as an eight-year-old, but now I see Twister is kind of a skeezy game if adults play it. Oh, no. COVID - 19 Experimental Vaccines I dont think thats evidence in and of itself of diabolical activity. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Father Chad A. Ripperger. To me, we still dont have The evidence bar has definitely not been met yet. The exorcist went on to claim that the Deep State and communists are behaving like demons who are losing their grip on the possessed by claiming rights they do not have. I think the book could be taken too far. They dont contradict each other. Other names from the book, like Bellatrix or Rastaban, theyre stars. The popular Catholic speaker and author Chris Stefanick shared an excerpt recently from an interview he conducted with Father Chad Ripperger, a well-known Colorado priest who specializes in. I think thats the principle difficulty that we have -- people who are, for lack of a better way of putting it, that theyre basically in league with him, Ripperger said. The Church does not oblige that. by Fr Francis Spirago, Father Chad Ripperger, et al. Other Formats: Paperback. The character Doc in it talks about the devil theory. I looked this up, this claim. And thats fine most of the time, but sometimes it bleeds beyond, and as I said, number one, makes people who are scrupulous extra worrisome when they dont have to be, and that could be dangerous for them. Manage your follows. No, it can just mean that people are defensive about things they really enjoy, especially heartfelt traditions. $25. . Now, I knew some people growing up who were huge D&D fans, and I think thats fine as long as you use the role-playing game in a moral way and you dont indulge in immoralities while playing. Browse Father Chad A. Ripperger's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Many believe that even if the fraud is exposed and all this comes out in this whole process, some have expressed that they dont believe the Supreme Court would rule in favor of whats right, Ripperger claimed. Firefighters rescued and treated the 21-year-old for minor injuries, but half her home was destroyed. Im going to talk about this at the end of the episode, but we should remember something called Hanlons Razor. Father Ripperger is a traditionalist priest. Hes upstanding. Theyre just Latin words. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. by Father Chad A. Ripperger ( 3,765 ) $9.60 Prayers for use by the laity in waging spiritual warfare from the public domain and the Church's treasury. Download Virgin Most Powerful Radio App at http://www.virginmostpowerfulradio.org/orCall 1-877-526-2151Keep us on the air with your prayers and donations at VMPR.orgTwitter: @VMPRadiohttps://twitter.com/VMPRadioFacebook: Virgin Most Powerful Radiohttps://www.facebook.com/VirginMostPoInstagram: VMPRadiohttps://www.instagram.com/VMPRadioGab.com: @VMPRadiohttps://gab.com/VMPRadio What I did is I went through First, I went through the list, and most of these names are not demonic. Lewis, the magic in The Chronicles of Narnia, or the magic in Tolkien, theres nothing wrong with that, but there are Christians who will tell you, Oh, no, good, sir. I think RPGs can stop evil when theyre Nazis or the Taliban. Ripperger reportedly moved the group to the Denver Diocese after he was asked to leave Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 2016, the outlet reported. If you have questions or comments, send them to me at trenthornpodcast.com. Tolkien. 28 mos. ( 3,586 ) $9.32 $18.89. Father Chad Ripperger, an American Catholic priest who has penned many books about demonic possession, made the shocking allegations during an interview with the US Grace Force podcast. Thats his opinion. If I read the books, I might have a low opinion of them as well. Im sure in a lot of fiction thats not written by a Catholic who is very intent on their writing, youre going to have protagonists doing questionable moral things. Read more Other Formats: Hardcover , Paperback Buy now with 1-Click Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC The Consensus of the Fathers and Theologians Jul 18, 2020 by Chad Ripperger ( 84 ) $2.99 Before I get to that, though, I want to remind you to continue supporting the podcast at trenthornpodcast.com. It was unclear what spell she was trying to weave.. The detective report noted, D&D became a reality. Irving Bink Pulling, 16, an avid D&D player, a suicide. Its not that its the name of a demon. Biography [ edit] The other thing is, too, its a piece of junk literature. Im going to make a potion in my pot and put stuff on my stove, including oil and alcohol, that can catch fire. This is not a case of someone engaged in the diabolical and summoning demons to set their house on fire. Catholic Exorcist Fr. "Those who actually want whats best for this country, I think that this is just some external observations but I think there is a kind of in the minds of people, a feeling of vulnerability right now," Ripperger said. She says, The Force is a life force, energy. The exorcist went on to claim that the Deep State and communists are behaving like demons who are losing their grip on the possessed by claiming rights they do not have. There are those who are fearful that the game in the hands of vulnerable kids could do harm, and there is evidence that seems to support that view. We dont have to entertain a conflict. Its a combination of the words Alcatraz, a prison in San Francisco, and Abaddon, which is a Hebrew word for a place of destruction or doom. Fr. Sometimes people actually will ask me about Harry Potter. Ripperger from 1997 to 1999 while he was in Omaha and Lincoln. Rate this book Write a Review Now, Father Ripperger tries to make the distinction between Tolkien and J.K. Rowling, but like many of the people who try to make that distinction, its not a compelling one to me. I went online to Google, and I searched J.K. Oh, yeah, the demon Lee Jordan is always out to get people. Wouldnt that be great? In the Harry Potter books, theres a mirror that shows our hearts deepest desire. Tolkien, your charms and your RPG material, but dont just throw them away. Now, he claims, Well, witches tell us theyre real spells. Once again, I dont see any evidence for that at all. Rippergers reasons for why people should always avoid Harry Potter. He has had to exorcize three children just for reading the books. In fact, these stem cells/DNA (which Fr. Its called Poes Law. The spells in the books are actual spells. Chad Ripperger has to say about the matter. I knew people who learned Elvish, for example. Tolkien or C.S. Why? You shall not pass. He says to the demon Balrog By the way, theres demons in Lord of the Rings. Here, lets get to the meat to show you what I mean. Fr Chad Ripperger and Dr Taylor Marshall Talk about:Is Traditional Latin Mass TLM better?Is Novus Ordo Mass "less"?Is Latin sacred? Ill say that its bad and The Da Vinci Code undermines peoples faith even if millions of people buy the books. Dark Dungeons is based on Dungeons & Dragons, this role-playing game, and its based on a Jack Chick tract. I want to have real conversations that take a long time, but do lead us to the truth, where were not sitting around in a circle holding hands, singing Kumbaya. May the Force be with you? Then theres things in the middle that require prudence. Learn more about Father Chad A. Ripperger. That has a nice sounds good to it. It doesnt mean the game itself has an intrinsic property to do this. But that doesnt mean someones an expert in everything. Do you like Star Wars? Itd be ideal here if they said, Well, yeah. I think what were seeing now is that theres some stark comparisons in the behavior of some of these people and its what Ive seen in session. Ripperger reportedly moved the group to the Denver Diocese after he was asked to leave Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 2016, the outlet reported. Here, our objective is only to consider the moral aspects of the use of the vaccines against Covid-19 that have been developed from cell lines derived from tissues . It wasnt something in which the person, when he heard Gandalf saying the magic, I want to be like Gandalf and do these magic things, thats not what you You just didnt have that. I havent found any of these names on online lists of the names of demons. Come with me to a meeting this afternoon. Its purpose is to share a fantasy story not unlike C.S. ' They could probably say Star Wars ripped that off from them, but they dont. Back to top Get to Know Us. Its going to be covered up and hidden.. If you think your kid is getting too worked up in Harry Potter and hes detached from reality, you should probably separate him from that material, but you could get obsessed with almost anything. by Fr. Ripperger from 1997 to 1999 while he was in Omaha and Lincoln. Its just incantations and fictional fantasy worlds where words have the power to manipulate reality in a certain way. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. They get glory in this life by their name being pronounced and under certain circumstances. That doesnt mean someones an expert in everything game, and its based on a Jack Chick.... 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