Dawn, I wasn't berating anyone. I do find it deplorable when people add to a specific problem that spawns from a religious idea. Namely that demons exist and they are in some big war with dog, therefor only dog can fix/protect you. Telling someone who may be mentally ill to have conversations with dog for protection against demons is just BULLSHIT! That's like elders praying over a mentally ill person and expecting jehovah to somehow alleviate the very real problem. Almost all of my family on my mother's side are crazy as hell and why? Because they never sought mental health treatment until it was way far gone and little to be done except take lots of pills and hope for the best.. . In my personal experience, one dead cousin, one crazy aunt, one totally nuts cousin, and an almost dead uncle later has taught me much..mostly though VERY empirical evidence. Praying is not the answer to mental illness. Will never be, regardless of whether or not you believe in the almighty. As well, this is not limited to Christianity at all. Biblical demons pale in comparison to many of the other world religions and thier named conceptualization of various demons. Funny thing though, most point back to the person as the source of said demons which reveal themselves through our actions. It easy to believe in the Christian form of demonology cause its always someone else's fault shit happens inside your own head.
Crazy...yes I am evil....eheheh I would ask you to go back and look at the origin of all belief in demons and ghosts. Where do those ideas come from? Certainly not from nature, but from our own need to have something else out there....furthermore, it amuses me that, just like those who think they are anointed, people who think they have been visited by demons are somehow special and warrant the attention of the "other worldly". A bit egoistic in some way. At least there are some schizos out there that recognize they have a problem and seek appropriate mental care.
On the human codition and demonology
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/eng/skc/newdemon.htm
This guy is a nutcase..
http://www.ariel.org/ff00082c.html
History of Demonology
http://www.biblebeliefs.net/man/devil/devil12.htm
Sincerely,
District Overbeer of the "satanic sans the satan" class