It was recently discovered that after smokers and other addicted people have an accidental injury or a stroke that damages a tiny, specific part of the brain, their addiction disappears.
“After my injury, I hated cigarettes. I couldn’t stand the way they smelled.” one former nicotine addict explained.
Catholic Fundamentalists use this medical evidence to picture a place in the mind where the demons of addiction live. It’s like a computer room, where they sit and play with the neurons that connect mind and body.
“Let’s get ’em smoking! Let’s get ’em drinking! Let’s get ’em gambling! Let’s get ’em hooked on meth! Sex!” the demons of the different addictions tell each other.
Actual demons, tiny as angels, but not as bright, move into, and take over, the tiny, physical area of the brain where they begin and maintain as many destructive addictions as possible. Evidence that they have an actual home in the mind, and that they can be driven out by the physical destruction of that home, is fascinating.
First of all, knowing that they live in a dirty little shack they’ve built at a specific location in our brain gives us a place to focus our prayers. Prayers, to Catholic Fundamentalists, are simply requests for programming assistance from higher-powered programmers. “Please, St. Anthony, let me find a way to drive the demons out of my mind! Please, send well-armed angels! Zap that tiny, microdot sized portion of my brain where they live. Better yet, zap the demon!”
Enough prayers will cause a Saint, wearying of our constant pleas, to “burn ’em out”, and will get us back on the right track. “Enough prayers” may mean a few hours a day for a month, but those prayers will bring programming assistance, in the form of a spiritual “slayer of dragons” from the servants of God.
Asking for higher-level programmers to destroy the demon’s home is much better than beating one’s head against a wall, a primitive method of doing the same thing.
