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🎬The experiences of a top exorcist for the diocese of Rome have made him a valuable source for Hollywood, even introducing a film starring Anthony Hopkins.
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😈The people in Catholic horror are usually in trouble because they don't have faith or their faith is wavering, and those with stronger faith have a responsibility to save them.
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🎬Believing in something and fearing it is what gives it power, as seen in horror films like "It" and "The Bye Bye Man."
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🔮Horror movies dealing with faith show that you have to believe in the evil in order to defeat it, but also believe in the good and your own strength.
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🤔The story suggests that faith alone can't save them, rewriting the theme of prayer and religion as the power to ward off evil spirits.
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🔥The same church that executed Joan of Arc also made her a martyr, highlighting the brutality within Catholic history.
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😱The concept of the film Martyrs is often written off as straight up torture porn, but there's an element to it that many people overlook - the religious aspect of trying to reach the afterlife or trying to reach God through unbearable pain.
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😱The doctrine of Discovery gave Christian explorers the right to displace or convert non-Christians to Catholicism by any means necessary, justifying colonialism and exploitation.