Month: May 2023

Drag queens and baseball – what’s next? First, it was story hour at your local library or public school with drag queens reading sexually explicit literature to small children. Now the Los Angeles Dodgers have invited a group of drag queens to come out to the ballgame. The so-called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (The name says it all!) is a fringe queer-group mocking Christianity. These sisters of sacrilege were invited to appear at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in recognition of gay pride month. When that caused an uproar, the faux nun drag queens were disinvited. Then woke culture took over, and the Dodgers APOLOGIZED for the cancellation and invited the queer crowd back. These are the same people who have staged, on video for all to see, a drag queen in high heels gyrating sexually around a nearly nude man depicting Jesus on the cross. This outrageous display of religious sensitivity was addressed by the Dodgers in a public statement that said, in part: “We offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. We are pleased that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the lifesaving work that they have done tirelessly for decades.”

Most Americans take a live and let live attitude toward this sort of thing so long as it doesn’t infringe on someone else’s rights. Well, Christians, and especially Catholics, believe this egregious stunt IS a severe violation of public decency and disrespects religion. For men dolled up as nuns to stroll the bases in a major league baseball game is the height of anti-religious arrogance and blasphemy.

I grew up as a child, loving the old Brooklyn Dodgers. My heroes were Jackie Robinson, Duke Snyder, Gil Hodges, and Pee Wee Reese. What would they say about Christians being mocked like this? I imagine they would have considered such a travesty to be unthinkable. Which raises a question. If drag queens at a baseball game wasn’t acceptable to the old Dodgers-what is the next unthinkable thing on the horizon? Will polyamorous lovers dance in the outfield? Will polygamous families be celebrated in the dugout? Will third base coaches don tutus? If the line isn’t drawn here, where will it ever be drawn?

It is deeply offense that things considered sacred, especially by Catholics, are used to ridicule personal faith in a very public way. This isn’t taking place on a street corner as a protest. This is an official invitation of a major league baseball team revered by its city. A team that gets considerable tax breaks from taxpayers, millions of whom are Christians. If drag queens want to claim a month to celebrate their proclivities, it’s a free country. But it’s not free when people are buying a ticket to see baseball players exhibit their athletic skills and are instead subjected to this sort of nonsense.

I know devout Catholics with family members who have devoted themselves to a lifetime of chaste service unto the Lord by becoming a nun. This is their choice of spiritual vocation. Having it trivialized by men, dressed as women celebrating unfettered sexual indulgence is beyond the pale. One may argue that baseball fans don’t have to buy tickets to the game if they don’t want to see such things. But what about season-ticket holders who can’t get a refund? What about fans who bought tickets in advance without knowing this would happen?

This sacrilegious stunt involves more than gay pranksters having a laugh at the expense of Christianity. This is an issue offensive to all Christians. In America people may be free to reasonably do what they wish. But when the Los Angeles Dodgers take hard-earned money from fans who want to watch balls and strikes instead of poser nuns in drag, it should be strike three, you’re out.

Nine years ago, I wrote “Jezebel, Your #1 Spiritual Enemy.” I included a chapter on the incubus spirit and sexual cohabitation between humans and demons. Before that, no one in the Christian community had dared to speak publicly about demonic-human sexual experiences. People had spoken of the Nephilim and the conjecture of Genesis 6:2: “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them” (KJV). The idea of fallen angels having sex with female humans and producing a hybrid offspring was mostly the stuff of conspiracy theories and outlying theology.

Suddenly, just a couple of years ago, deliverance ministers started talking about it openly. Many women (and men—succubus experiences) were telling about strange occurrences of demonic molestation. In some cases, it was in dreams; other instances in a semi-awake state. Still others described demonic rape taking place with full consciousness. Was there any truth to these claims?

Since I’ve covered this thoroughly in my “Jezebel” book I’ll not go into details here. But I do want to make several points. The idea of having sex with a demon goes beyond the film “Rosemary’s Baby” way back in 1968. It has been an accepted phenomenon in most of Africa. It’s not uncommon for a young virgin to be given to a “spiritual husband” during a coming-of-age tribal ceremony. But now, because of the rise in witchcraft and the occult, it’s happening all over the Western world.

There are many unanswered questions. Is it real or psychosis, a delusional projection of inward sexual repression? Yes, sometimes. Is it an attempt of a lonely, love-starved individual to eroticize their fantasies? Yes, I’ve encountered that. But an alarming number of women, and men, who seek me out for deliverance prayers all give similar accounts of such experiences. They can’t all be lying. They aren’t all merely overly sexualized by pornography or masturbation. Spirit spouses can and do sometimes happen, especially if ancestors in witchcraft made pacts with the devil to give future generations in spiritual marriage. You may have opened the door by
involvement in the New Age or occult by activating the Kundalini spirit or doing tantric yoga.

There is much more to say, and I will at a later date. But for now, here is my message to anyone suffering uninvited sexual contact. Be careful who you talk to when seeking help. Many deliverance ministries aren’t equipped to handle such matters. Our Do What Jesus Did-trained prayer warriors and Associate Ministers do minister to cases with incubus and succubus. Contact our office to arrange an encounter with me. I have more than 40 years’ experience dealing with cases of demonic assaults.

In the meantime, keep a Bible, cross, and anointing oil by your bed at night. Anoint the four corners of your bed before you sleep. Put a Bible under your pillow. Bind any such demons from attacking you and declare to the devil that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Ask the Lord to show you where this right of spiritual violation came from. It could be from an ancestral sin or ceremony. Perhaps someone in your promiscuous past had this kind of demon and passed it on to you. Remind the devil that according to Revelation 18:23 you are the Bride of Christ alone and that your spirit, soul, and body belong alone to Him.

What would happen if you ripped up a Bible? You may think that is an odd question, but I have serious reasoning behind it. Recently a demonic group the Satanic Temple held their annual convention called SatanCon. Last year it was held in my home city of Scottsdale, Arizona. This year, the motley band of devil worshippers went to a more liberal place, Boston, MA. As part of their satanic psychodrama, they made a big deal about one of their members on stage ripping up a Bible to the cheers of the crowds. What happened next? Nothing, as far as we know. No thunder bolts from heaven. No, screaming in agony as the person who did it went straight to Hell.

So, what would happen if you ripped up a Bible? Actually, I have known people who did just that when they were involved in satanic cults. Some did worse things than rip up a Bible, stuff that I can’t talk about in public. Let’s put this act of Bible desecration in perspective. Jesus is the living Word of God. The written word of God expresses the will of God and reveals the person of Christ. But a physical Bible is just leather and paper. It’s a book. Ripping up a Bible means nothing, except for the intent of the person doing it. If you’ve done such a thing, it is a horrible act of blasphemy. But let me assure you it’s not an unpardonable sin. You won’t be damned forever if you damage a religious object.

The real issue is knowing what inside you compelled such an egregious action. God’s grace and mercy is extended to any act of blasphemy and sacrilege if the miscreant repents. The worst of your deeds can be forgiven by the blood of Christ. This also applies to the person at SatanCon who ripped scripture. To that person I want to say, God is more powerful and more merciful than the anger you vented toward him. Your problem is not a tangible book. What you need to worry about is someday facing the judgment of Christ who is the living world. Second Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” Ripping up a Bible make Satanists happy, but it doesn’t deny Christ’s divinity or the love He expressed on the cross.

Spoiler alert. I’m going to tell you all that needs to be known about the movie thriller “Nefarious.” It was produced by those same folks who gave you the “God’s Not Dead” film, a movie apologetic for the Christian faith. This time they take on demonic possession, and they mostly fail at that task.

What’s good about the movie? First, the movie has the courage to portray demons without spinning heads and levitating bodies. That’s good. With all the interest in deliverance these days, someone in Hollywood was going to use this motif. Why not some guys who are Christians? In this case it is Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon as writers and directors. But therein lies the problem. They either didn’t do their homework adequately or they were so intent on marketing a film in the horror genre that they missed the mark. They depict aberrational stereotypes about demon possession. That’s not the real world of confronting evil spirits.

In the plot, Sean Patrick Flanery plays the part of Edward Wayne Brady, a serial killer in prison who faces a death sentence. His only chance to escape the electric chair is to be declared legally insane. Enter the other lead character, an atheist psychiatrist named Dr. James Martin. On the eve of the execution with hours to spare, the doctor must make an in-person evaluation of this death-row mass murderer. Most of the movie centers on the mental jousting between the demon possessed killer and the psychiatrist. If the doctor declares Edward insane, he escapes Old Sparky. If he is merely narcissistic, it’s curtains for him.

The script writer has the prisoner go in and out of demonic states while the atheist tries to understand what is happening. The demon calling itself Nefarious becomes an unlikely apologetic for Christianity, challenging the atheism of the doctor. Nefarious says that James will have killed three people by the time of the execution. As the plot develops, we learn what constitutes these three deaths:

1) The doctor dispatches his aged mother with euthanasia.

2) The doctor forces his girlfriend to abort their unborn child because he’s “not ready to be a parent.”

3) The doctor effectively signs off on the criminal’s death warrant by declaring him sane.

The demon gloats over the psychiatrist’s killing via assisted suicide. That dialogue becomes rhetoric for a Christian view of life’s sacredness. It’s a clever theatrical device but too forced and polemical. The same dramatic construct is used to define abortion as murder, no less immoral than what the prisoner has done. While I get the idea of biblical ethics being sermonized by a demon, it seems too forced and predictable. Nevertheless, I give credit to the movie’s boldness to propagate Christian values in a film, even if it takes the logic of a demon to accomplish the task.

My thumbs-down is due to the disingenuous way that demonic possession is handled. The movie depicts the stereotype that possessed people are raging lunatics, serial killers, and nefarious mental cases. In my world of exorcism, truly possessed people are often doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, engineers, and even preachers. Successful people, in human terms, but tormented by a hellish inner life. They aren’t going to commit mass mayhem, but they will slowly rot away spiritually and emotionally unless delivered from their demons. Nefarious is a fair-to-middling horror flick, but not entirely convincing of the gospel. It’s better than “The Pope’s Exorcist” but it isn’t helpful for the ministry of casting out demons from ordinary people who are attacked by extraordinary evil spirits.