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Residuals (John Leahy)

https://sevenstorypublishing.com/2026/05/08/residuals-john-leahy/

Demon in Chains (ca. 1453) by Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam.

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d12d9e24-0547-4693-86d2-856cbdb923a8

#ropes #costumes #demonic #capture #art #publicdomain

Demon in Chains (ca. 1453) by Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam.

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d12d9e24-0547-4693-86d2-856cbdb923a8

#ropes #costumes #demonic #capture #art #publicdomain

Demon in Chains (ca. 1453) by Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam.

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d12d9e24-0547-4693-86d2-856cbdb923a8

#ropes #costumes #demonic #capture #art #publicdomain

Demon in Chains (ca. 1453) by Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam.

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d12d9e24-0547-4693-86d2-856cbdb923a8

#ropes #costumes #demonic #capture #art #publicdomain

Demon in Chains (ca. 1453) by Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam.

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d12d9e24-0547-4693-86d2-856cbdb923a8

#ropes #costumes #demonic #capture #art #publicdomain

Book Review: The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare by Robert Curran

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today I’m sharing my review of Robert Curran’s The Haunted One Family’s Nightmare.

The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare was published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press and is 275 pages long.

What It’s About
The book recounts the alleged ‘true’ account of one of the more infamous hauntings in the United States, taking place in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in a 92-year-old duplex inhabited by the Smurl family.

Strange noises, apparitions, physical attacks, and demonic manifestations become part of the family’s daily life. Eventually, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to investigate the phenomena.

Characters
Jack and Janet Smurl
Jack is the husband/father, Janet the wife/mother. They are portrayed as ordinary, well-meaning, devout Catholics, whose faith becomes both their anchor and their source of vulnerability. They are the ones under direct and indirect attack by the various supernatural phenomena.

The children
The couple’s children also experience the strange occurrences, although to a lesser extent than their parents.

Jack’s Parents
Jack’s parents live next door and also experience some of the phenomena, which at first causes a little tension between the two households.

Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ed and Lorraine Warren are well-known paranormal ‘investigators’, who, in this book, are sought out by the family. They arrive at the Smurls’ home and begin an investigation, trying to help them make sense of what is happening.

Writing Style
Curran adopts a journalistic style while documenting the Smurls’ supposed haunting, using interviews and recorded testimonies to flesh out their story.

The plot is not strictly linear. There are many digressions, including backstories, neighbourhood accounts, third-party witnesses, and religious discussions, which make the narrative feel a bit episodic. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just not what I was expecting.

I wanted to read this book because the film The Conjuring: Last Rites, which is based on this case, was recently released, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the book would be just as atmospheric and spooky—but it wasn’t.

I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t believe in the paranormal, I do enjoy reading books and watching documentaries on the subject because I appreciate a good spine tingle. However, there was little to no atmospheric buildup in the book, which is, I’ve found, such an essential part of these ‘true’ accounts.

Speaking of which, the book lacks any real credibility; the author doesn’t question the fact that these strange events happened to the family, nor does he offer any alternative explanations, either natural or psychological, which is frustrating for a sceptic like me.

Something I did enjoy was the relatively short chapters, which often switched between the Smurls’ own experiences and outside witnesses, preventing the book from becoming wholly boring.

Final Thoughts
Overall, The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare is worthwhile if you like “paranormal true story” books or are interested in the Warrens or their famous cases.

However, if you come expecting a polished horror narrative, full of literary flair or tight storytelling, you will feel disappointed. My advice would be to read this one as though it were a novel, and ultimately suspend your disbelief.

I am giving this one a 2/10.

Have you read The Haunted? What did you think? Are you a believer? Let me know!

Thank you, as ever, for reading my review.

Until next time,

George

© 2026 GLT

Book Review: The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare by Robert Curran

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today I’m sharing my review of Robert Curran’s The Haunted One Family’s Nightmare.

The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare was published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press and is 275 pages long.

What It’s About
The book recounts the alleged ‘true’ account of one of the more infamous hauntings in the United States, taking place in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in a 92-year-old duplex inhabited by the Smurl family.

Strange noises, apparitions, physical attacks, and demonic manifestations become part of the family’s daily life. Eventually, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to investigate the phenomena.

Characters
Jack and Janet Smurl
Jack is the husband/father, Janet the wife/mother. They are portrayed as ordinary, well-meaning, devout Catholics, whose faith becomes both their anchor and their source of vulnerability. They are the ones under direct and indirect attack by the various supernatural phenomena.

The children
The couple’s children also experience the strange occurrences, although to a lesser extent than their parents.

Jack’s Parents
Jack’s parents live next door and also experience some of the phenomena, which at first causes a little tension between the two households.

Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ed and Lorraine Warren are well-known paranormal ‘investigators’, who, in this book, are sought out by the family. They arrive at the Smurls’ home and begin an investigation, trying to help them make sense of what is happening.

Writing Style
Curran adopts a journalistic style while documenting the Smurls’ supposed haunting, using interviews and recorded testimonies to flesh out their story.

The plot is not strictly linear. There are many digressions, including backstories, neighbourhood accounts, third-party witnesses, and religious discussions, which make the narrative feel a bit episodic. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just not what I was expecting.

I wanted to read this book because the film The Conjuring: Last Rites, which is based on this case, was recently released, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the book would be just as atmospheric and spooky—but it wasn’t.

I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t believe in the paranormal, I do enjoy reading books and watching documentaries on the subject because I appreciate a good spine tingle. However, there was little to no atmospheric buildup in the book, which is, I’ve found, such an essential part of these ‘true’ accounts.

Speaking of which, the book lacks any real credibility; the author doesn’t question the fact that these strange events happened to the family, nor does he offer any alternative explanations, either natural or psychological, which is frustrating for a sceptic like me.

Something I did enjoy was the relatively short chapters, which often switched between the Smurls’ own experiences and outside witnesses, preventing the book from becoming wholly boring.

Final Thoughts
Overall, The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare is worthwhile if you like “paranormal true story” books or are interested in the Warrens or their famous cases.

However, if you come expecting a polished horror narrative, full of literary flair or tight storytelling, you will feel disappointed. My advice would be to read this one as though it were a novel, and ultimately suspend your disbelief.

I am giving this one a 2/10.

Have you read The Haunted? What did you think? Are you a believer? Let me know!

Thank you, as ever, for reading my review.

Until next time,

George

© 2026 GLT

Book Review: The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare by Robert Curran

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today I’m sharing my review of Robert Curran’s The Haunted One Family’s Nightmare.

The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare was published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press and is 275 pages long.

What It’s About
The book recounts the alleged ‘true’ account of one of the more infamous hauntings in the United States, taking place in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in a 92-year-old duplex inhabited by the Smurl family.

Strange noises, apparitions, physical attacks, and demonic manifestations become part of the family’s daily life. Eventually, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to investigate the phenomena.

Characters
Jack and Janet Smurl
Jack is the husband/father, Janet the wife/mother. They are portrayed as ordinary, well-meaning, devout Catholics, whose faith becomes both their anchor and their source of vulnerability. They are the ones under direct and indirect attack by the various supernatural phenomena.

The children
The couple’s children also experience the strange occurrences, although to a lesser extent than their parents.

Jack’s Parents
Jack’s parents live next door and also experience some of the phenomena, which at first causes a little tension between the two households.

Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ed and Lorraine Warren are well-known paranormal ‘investigators’, who, in this book, are sought out by the family. They arrive at the Smurls’ home and begin an investigation, trying to help them make sense of what is happening.

Writing Style
Curran adopts a journalistic style while documenting the Smurls’ supposed haunting, using interviews and recorded testimonies to flesh out their story.

The plot is not strictly linear. There are many digressions, including backstories, neighbourhood accounts, third-party witnesses, and religious discussions, which make the narrative feel a bit episodic. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just not what I was expecting.

I wanted to read this book because the film The Conjuring: Last Rites, which is based on this case, was recently released, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the book would be just as atmospheric and spooky—but it wasn’t.

I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t believe in the paranormal, I do enjoy reading books and watching documentaries on the subject because I appreciate a good spine tingle. However, there was little to no atmospheric buildup in the book, which is, I’ve found, such an essential part of these ‘true’ accounts.

Speaking of which, the book lacks any real credibility; the author doesn’t question the fact that these strange events happened to the family, nor does he offer any alternative explanations, either natural or psychological, which is frustrating for a sceptic like me.

Something I did enjoy was the relatively short chapters, which often switched between the Smurls’ own experiences and outside witnesses, preventing the book from becoming wholly boring.

Final Thoughts
Overall, The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare is worthwhile if you like “paranormal true story” books or are interested in the Warrens or their famous cases.

However, if you come expecting a polished horror narrative, full of literary flair or tight storytelling, you will feel disappointed. My advice would be to read this one as though it were a novel, and ultimately suspend your disbelief.

I am giving this one a 2/10.

Have you read The Haunted? What did you think? Are you a believer? Let me know!

Thank you, as ever, for reading my review.

Until next time,

George

© 2026 GLT

Book Review: The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare by Robert Curran

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today I’m sharing my review of Robert Curran’s The Haunted One Family’s Nightmare.

The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare was published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press and is 275 pages long.

What It’s About
The book recounts the alleged ‘true’ account of one of the more infamous hauntings in the United States, taking place in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in a 92-year-old duplex inhabited by the Smurl family.

Strange noises, apparitions, physical attacks, and demonic manifestations become part of the family’s daily life. Eventually, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to investigate the phenomena.

Characters
Jack and Janet Smurl
Jack is the husband/father, Janet the wife/mother. They are portrayed as ordinary, well-meaning, devout Catholics, whose faith becomes both their anchor and their source of vulnerability. They are the ones under direct and indirect attack by the various supernatural phenomena.

The children
The couple’s children also experience the strange occurrences, although to a lesser extent than their parents.

Jack’s Parents
Jack’s parents live next door and also experience some of the phenomena, which at first causes a little tension between the two households.

Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ed and Lorraine Warren are well-known paranormal ‘investigators’, who, in this book, are sought out by the family. They arrive at the Smurls’ home and begin an investigation, trying to help them make sense of what is happening.

Writing Style
Curran adopts a journalistic style while documenting the Smurls’ supposed haunting, using interviews and recorded testimonies to flesh out their story.

The plot is not strictly linear. There are many digressions, including backstories, neighbourhood accounts, third-party witnesses, and religious discussions, which make the narrative feel a bit episodic. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just not what I was expecting.

I wanted to read this book because the film The Conjuring: Last Rites, which is based on this case, was recently released, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the book would be just as atmospheric and spooky—but it wasn’t.

I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t believe in the paranormal, I do enjoy reading books and watching documentaries on the subject because I appreciate a good spine tingle. However, there was little to no atmospheric buildup in the book, which is, I’ve found, such an essential part of these ‘true’ accounts.

Speaking of which, the book lacks any real credibility; the author doesn’t question the fact that these strange events happened to the family, nor does he offer any alternative explanations, either natural or psychological, which is frustrating for a sceptic like me.

Something I did enjoy was the relatively short chapters, which often switched between the Smurls’ own experiences and outside witnesses, preventing the book from becoming wholly boring.

Final Thoughts
Overall, The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare is worthwhile if you like “paranormal true story” books or are interested in the Warrens or their famous cases.

However, if you come expecting a polished horror narrative, full of literary flair or tight storytelling, you will feel disappointed. My advice would be to read this one as though it were a novel, and ultimately suspend your disbelief.

I am giving this one a 2/10.

Have you read The Haunted? What did you think? Are you a believer? Let me know!

Thank you, as ever, for reading my review.

Until next time,

George

© 2026 GLT

Book Review: The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare by Robert Curran

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today I’m sharing my review of Robert Curran’s The Haunted One Family’s Nightmare.

The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare was published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press and is 275 pages long.

What It’s About
The book recounts the alleged ‘true’ account of one of the more infamous hauntings in the United States, taking place in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, in a 92-year-old duplex inhabited by the Smurl family.

Strange noises, apparitions, physical attacks, and demonic manifestations become part of the family’s daily life. Eventually, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to investigate the phenomena.

Characters
Jack and Janet Smurl
Jack is the husband/father, Janet the wife/mother. They are portrayed as ordinary, well-meaning, devout Catholics, whose faith becomes both their anchor and their source of vulnerability. They are the ones under direct and indirect attack by the various supernatural phenomena.

The children
The couple’s children also experience the strange occurrences, although to a lesser extent than their parents.

Jack’s Parents
Jack’s parents live next door and also experience some of the phenomena, which at first causes a little tension between the two households.

Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ed and Lorraine Warren are well-known paranormal ‘investigators’, who, in this book, are sought out by the family. They arrive at the Smurls’ home and begin an investigation, trying to help them make sense of what is happening.

Writing Style
Curran adopts a journalistic style while documenting the Smurls’ supposed haunting, using interviews and recorded testimonies to flesh out their story.

The plot is not strictly linear. There are many digressions, including backstories, neighbourhood accounts, third-party witnesses, and religious discussions, which make the narrative feel a bit episodic. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just not what I was expecting.

I wanted to read this book because the film The Conjuring: Last Rites, which is based on this case, was recently released, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the book would be just as atmospheric and spooky—but it wasn’t.

I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t believe in the paranormal, I do enjoy reading books and watching documentaries on the subject because I appreciate a good spine tingle. However, there was little to no atmospheric buildup in the book, which is, I’ve found, such an essential part of these ‘true’ accounts.

Speaking of which, the book lacks any real credibility; the author doesn’t question the fact that these strange events happened to the family, nor does he offer any alternative explanations, either natural or psychological, which is frustrating for a sceptic like me.

Something I did enjoy was the relatively short chapters, which often switched between the Smurls’ own experiences and outside witnesses, preventing the book from becoming wholly boring.

Final Thoughts
Overall, The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare is worthwhile if you like “paranormal true story” books or are interested in the Warrens or their famous cases.

However, if you come expecting a polished horror narrative, full of literary flair or tight storytelling, you will feel disappointed. My advice would be to read this one as though it were a novel, and ultimately suspend your disbelief.

I am giving this one a 2/10.

Have you read The Haunted? What did you think? Are you a believer? Let me know!

Thank you, as ever, for reading my review.

Until next time,

George

© 2026 GLT

Fantasy Army Characters pack2 #Clan #Savage #Nightmare #Protector #Nature #Mutant #Insect #Goblin #Animal #Guards #Desert #Creature #Demonic #Army #Rpg #AssetStore

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#everyone needs to get more #blasphemous and #demonic and #heretical right fucking now

Top ten posts in November 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/01/top-ten-posts-in-november-2025/

#alchemy #art #astrological #aulaLucis #bestPosts #bestTen #biography #blackMoonPublishing #brianCopenhaver #cGJung18751961 #carlGJung #carlJung #codex #craft #crescendo #dPWalker #darkStarMagick #demonic #destroy #devil #dionysiaSoleil #discordian #elizabethMarshall #elsieGrayParker #esoteric #founding #francisBacon #genealogy #giovanniPicoDellaMirandola #glamour #god #godCard #goldenStar #hakimBey #innerTraditions #jMichaud #jMichaudArchive #jacquesLefevreDetaples #jeanBodin #judithVonHalle #kabbalah #lilith #magic #magicInHistory #magician #magus #map #marlaSegol #marsilioFicino #medicine #melekTaus #music #mystic #mythical #newMysteries #nicholasLiterski #november2025 #occult #package #path #paulKing #peacockAngel #pennStateUniversityPress #peterLambornWilson #poetry #religion #renaissance #ritual #rudolfSteiner #satan #sergeiOProkofieff #sexMagic #shadow #simonBlaxlandDeLange #spiritual #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #templeLodge #tommasoCampanella #topPosts #topTen #tradition #twelve #umaPress #visions #warburgInstitue #weirdoverseGiftShop #whiteLodge #yezidis

Top ten posts in November 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/01/top-ten-posts-in-november-2025/

#alchemy #art #astrological #aulaLucis #bestPosts #bestTen #biography #blackMoonPublishing #brianCopenhaver #cGJung18751961 #carlGJung #carlJung #codex #craft #crescendo #dPWalker #darkStarMagick #demonic #destroy #devil #dionysiaSoleil #discordian #elizabethMarshall #elsieGrayParker #esoteric #founding #francisBacon #genealogy #giovanniPicoDellaMirandola #glamour #god #godCard #goldenStar #hakimBey #innerTraditions #jMichaud #jMichaudArchive #jacquesLefevreDetaples #jeanBodin #judithVonHalle #kabbalah #lilith #magic #magicInHistory #magician #magus #map #marlaSegol #marsilioFicino #medicine #melekTaus #music #mystic #mythical #newMysteries #nicholasLiterski #november2025 #occult #package #path #paulKing #peacockAngel #pennStateUniversityPress #peterLambornWilson #poetry #religion #renaissance #ritual #rudolfSteiner #satan #sergeiOProkofieff #sexMagic #shadow #simonBlaxlandDeLange #spiritual #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #templeLodge #tommasoCampanella #topPosts #topTen #tradition #twelve #umaPress #visions #warburgInstitue #weirdoverseGiftShop #whiteLodge #yezidis

‘Demonic’ #WindInTheWillows jumper #banned from #WestminsterAbbey | #London | The Guardian

Security guards who are ignorant of the origin of a picture think it’s supposedly #demonic. And even if it were, how would that hurt someone? It’s not even a provocative or threatening message.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/demonic-wind-in-the-willows-jumper-banned-from-westminster-abbey

#UK #FreedomIOfExpression

I am enjoying the demonic orca screen reader voice at 75% speed.

#blind #orca #demonic

#Mayor is #Socialist? - watch on YouTube
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#kingarthur = #Mamdani #nyc
#robinhood = #anonymous
#dracula = #trump
#wolfman = #ice

#election #conspiracy #trixstart #horror #scary #viral #gothic #dark #demonic #animation #politics #maga #newyork #poetry #horrorcommunity #horrorstories #horrorstory #horrorshorts #poetry

Are #Spiritual aka #Demonic Attacks Real?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWf-aCu_ko

#sundayschool #atheism #religion #christian #makebelieve #mentalhealth #demonposession

#Lilith #Dark #Embrace
A silhouette of shapely night
She offers #pleasure as her right
The horned #demon answers call
To stand both mighty proud & tall
#power flows through veins like fire
& fills her with #demonic #desire
#Seduction is her greatest #art
#Masterpiece from #hell 's own #heart
🩸📚
🎥
☠️
#FemmeFatale #Seductress #DarkFeminine #GothicRomance #DarkDesire #Power #Pleasure #DemonLover #AIart #aiartist #love #ForbiddenLove #Lilith #Demon #DarkPoetry #PoeStyle #FemaleGaze #DarkArt #Witch

#Lilith #Dark #Embrace
A silhouette of shapely night
She offers #pleasure as her right
The horned #demon answers call
To stand both mighty proud & tall
#power flows through veins like fire
& fills her with #demonic #desire
#Seduction is her greatest #art
#Masterpiece from #hell 's own #heart
🩸📚
🎥
☠️
#FemmeFatale #Seductress #DarkFeminine #GothicRomance #DarkDesire #Power #Pleasure #DemonLover #AIart #aiartist #love #ForbiddenLove #Lilith #Demon #DarkPoetry #PoeStyle #FemaleGaze #DarkArt #Witch

The TRUTH about spiritual warfare and the battle for America's soul

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/shows/glenn-beck-podcast/spiritual

I swear to all the #gods that only #white people are capable of turning anything into a #religion. To anyone reasonable, #science is a method that allows us to proceed along the search for truth using nature as the source of our #evidence and never just our own #reason.

Meanwhile, #cishet white #dudes in #horror stories are like, "I've been experiencing obvious and unquestionably horrific #demonic influence that has been #traumatizing to every member of my #family. But I am a #man of reason, and that is why I have chosen to ignore the #experiences of every single one of my family members and my own. Because the #demon has been actively occluding any evidence of their influence, and that means there is no evidence, which clearly means nothing is happening and all of us are suffering from mass #psychosis and just need to breathe and calm down."

It's literally wild to watch that kind of motivated #reasoning in action.

(And by white, I mean anyone that identifies as white. Light-skinned Europeans who are anti-racist and actively reject their white privilege also seem to know better.)

Candace is uniquely evil | @destiny

#CandaceOwens #Demonic #Evil #PiersMorgan #Destiny

Did you know that #demonic possession haunted 17th-century nuns?

In Aix-en-Provence, in 1609, a novice #nun was sexually abused by a #priest. She soon exhibited symptoms of #possession.

All exorcisms failed & another nun got infected.

After extensive #torture, the priest was burned at the stake & the nuns banished. One recovered, but the other remained possessed until her death.

The ashes of the burned priest spread the possessions to other cloisters for the next 20 years...

#history

NEW IDEOLOGY ALERT - pro-mortalism
fresh from our lovely californian philosophers with a vegan martyr(/terrorist) already‽‽‽‽

(funny image partially related 💀)

#BREAKING #news #demonic #philosophy

DEMONS ARE ATTACKING BRAWL STARS!!! https://www.playing-games.com/380873/ #angelic #angels #BattleRoyale #brawl #BrawlStars #BrawlTalk #dani #demonic #demons #drew #EPIC #GameMode #games #gaming #GamingTrending #marzio #MobileGame #skins #TrendingGames #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報

DEMONS ARE ATTACKING BRAWL STARS!!! https://www.playing-games.com/380873/ #angelic #angels #BattleRoyale #brawl #BrawlStars #BrawlTalk #dani #demonic #demons #drew #EPIC #GameMode #games #gaming #GamingTrending #marzio #MobileGame #skins #TrendingGames #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報

The #Courage #Tour, organized by Trump-promoting #dominionists
-- #Lance #Wallnau and #Mario #Murillo,
-- and co-sponsored by the MAGA movement organization
"America First Policy Institute",
rolls into Pennsylvania this week on its tour of 19 swing counties that could decide the outcome of the presidential election.

The event will be held Friday night and all day Saturday in #Monroeville, which is located east of Pittsburgh.

Scholar Matthew Taylor, who attended a Wisconsin stop, called the tour
“the most targeted and tactical voter mobilization effort done by #Christian #nationalists ever,”

adding that
“they’re doing it hand in glove in many ways with the #Trump campaign and with the apparatus of the Trump campaign through an organization like #AFPI.”

Indeed, the Courage Tour exemplifies
💥the de facto merger between the MAGA movement and dominionist Christian nationalists.

AFPI, a “think tank” organized by and filled with former Trump administration officials,
is an active participant in #Project2025, another example of the shared authoritarian goals of Trumpworld and the Christian nationalists who helped put Trump in power in 2016 as part of their long-term plan to take “dominion” over every sphere of influence in society.

Turning Point USA’s #Charlie #Kirk has also supported the tour.

In 2023, AFPI President #Brooke #Rollins, a former Trump adviser who had been preparing his second-term agenda before he lost the 2020 election,
held an "America First Summit"
where she discussed AFPI’s Vision 2025,
a preview of Project 2025’s plans for the aggressive use of government power to promote the far-right agenda.

Rollins happily admitted that their “ideologically revolutionary” goal is to 🔥“seize control of the administrative state” as part of “an America First confrontation against anti-conservative institutions.”  

That echoed language used by the #Heritage #Foundation when it launched Project 2025 as a plan for the MAGA movement to “take the reins of government.”

The Courage Tour’s combination of tent revival-style religious rallies with political mobilization reflects the beliefs of #New #Apostolic #Reformation figures like Wallnau and Murillo that spiritual revival will lead to political transformation of the country to bring it into alignment with their particular biblical worldview.

Wallnau has said the tour’s purpose is to break “#demonic #strongholds” that have supposedly kept Republicans from winning elections,
and to prepare Christians to rule and reign after Christ’s return by training them to “occupy territory now.”

In other words, the Courage Tour is an example of #NAR “#spiritual #warfare” in pursuit of earthly power
—for Trump and for themselves.

Right Wing Watch reported that when the tour stopped in Wisconsin in July, the leader of a group called "The Lion of Judah" urged people to sign up to serve as election workers so that they could be in effect a
“Trojan Horse” for the Christian nationalist political movement.

At an earlier stop in Michigan, Christian nationalist political operative #David #Barton spread false Christian nationalist history.

Researcher Jenny Cohn has pointed out that #Rob #Pacienza, senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

—a longtime center of Christian-right political organizing

—is a senior fellow in the Center for the American Dream at AFPI.

This Wednesday, Sept. 25, Pacienza will kick off 40 days of prayer leading up to the election
with an online event with Courage Tour speaker Alveda King.

Pacienza’s project comes with a daily prayer guide that includes prayers for policies protecting life “from conception until natural death”
and “restoration” of marriage being limited to one man and one woman.

It includes a prayer that “Christians would use the power we have as citizens to rein in big government so that the State never becomes our Master.”

It also urges people to pray that God would
“remove those from office who oppose Him”
and “cause chaos and confusion among groups who oppose Him and His people so that their plans are thwarted.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominionist-courage-tour-heads-to-pennsylvania-in-bid-to-put-unleashed-trump-in-power/

Demonic Citadel The Good Amongst the Ominously Sublime

In the heart of a swirling inferno of crimson lies a fearsome castle, inherently wicked but there exists an aura of goodness within its walls Dare you find it?

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Malevolent Citadel of the Abyss

A depraved realm set at the edge of eternity, where twisted creatures roam freely and the gates of hell reach skyward The demonic fortress casts an oppressive shadow over the nearby village, enveloping all in the cold breath of death

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Malevolent Citadel of the Abyss

A depraved realm set at the edge of eternity, where twisted creatures roam freely and the gates of hell reach skyward The demonic fortress casts an oppressive shadow over the nearby village, enveloping all in the cold breath of death

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The Shadowed Citadel Dread Within

In the midst of the demonic castle, lurking beneath the fiery glow of torches, cryptic symbols placate creatures with awe-inspiringly malevolent intentions

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The Shadowed Citadel Dread Within

In the midst of the demonic castle, lurking beneath the fiery glow of torches, cryptic symbols placate creatures with awe-inspiringly malevolent intentions

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The Shadowed Citadel Dread Within

In the midst of the demonic castle, lurking beneath the fiery glow of torches, cryptic symbols placate creatures with awe-inspiringly malevolent intentions

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The Shadowed Citadel Dread Within

In the midst of the demonic castle, lurking beneath the fiery glow of torches, cryptic symbols placate creatures with awe-inspiringly malevolent intentions

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The Shadowed Citadel Dread Within

In the midst of the demonic castle, lurking beneath the fiery glow of torches, cryptic symbols placate creatures with awe-inspiringly malevolent intentions

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5. At the bottom of this claim is the determination to weaponize Christianity and use it to beat down those perceived as a threat to established power — the "demons."

6. In Catholic culture, this all gets tied up with reassertion and power of the clergy, who feel under siege in a rapidly changing world. The more these folks blather about demons and their unique power to vanquish demons, the more empty their claims to dominance become.

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3. Reactionary men (and women who ally with them) are driving reactionary Christianity today.

4. The claim that I and my allies can cast out demons is a claim of superiority: I'm on God's side. You're not. This is on the face of it an astonishing claim for Matt Schlapp and folks like him to make.

#demonic #exorcism #MattSchlapp

The fixation on demons and exorcism in reactionary Christianity today tells us much:

1. This kind of fixation predictably emerges when cultural shifts are underway, and entrenched power structures feel threatened.

2. Men in many cultures feel threatened, feel that their long-taken-for-granted privilege and entitlement based solely on being penis-endowed is under assault.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-schlapp-held-an-exorcism-at-cpac-offices-after-junior-employees-resigned