Do Demons uses "rights talk"? & Might Pope Leo XIII have brought us Vatican II with his ambiguous Lockean "rights language" that seemingly replaced the Traditional Catholic Teachings on Virtue & Charity?
Do demons uses "rights talk"? The Yale educated psychiatric exorcist's consultant Dr. Richard Gallagher's book, Demonic Foes , speaks of demons demanding their "rights." Dr. Gallagher, who is a scientific adviser to the International Association of Exorcists, wrote: "Some demons exhibit a strong strong sense of entitlement, maybe the chief personality feature held in common by demons... demons have been known to claim outright 'legal' rights over the possessed" (Page 143) Is "rights talk" incompatible with Christian doctrine? Liberal democracy scholar Walter Berns states that "rights discovered by Hobbes and Locke... presuppose the state of nature, the state of nature is incompatible with Christian doctrine... 'the first commandment and great commandment' is love of God... In the state of nature, however, man is not obliged to love anyone, but merely to preserve himself." ("Liberty: The God ...