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'11:; "ther eveningI had the mi: ‘ortune of entering Bemadine Hall (which is usually a great pleasure) and overbearing a COnvers- aticn which was then occurring in the main lounge of that building. The catversation centred around an advertisement that had just been shown m the tLbe concerning that latest bit of Hollywood

' sdmaltz lmown as 'me Amitfl'lle Horror._"fhe real horror, as far as I am concemed, is the fact that here, in one of the most advanced societies in the world, in the latter half of the 20th Century A.D., there are still to be found university educated people who main— tain a belief in such foolishness as ghosts, demons, devils, the 'power" of witchcraft, voodoo, etcetera ad nauseum! I

would have hoped that at least those of us in the developed First World would have been able to lay to rest those tidbits of our ignorant past in the Dark Ages, where they so richly belmged. Perhaps the traditional modes of metaphysical expressicn, Whid'l for thousands of years was found in religious tradition, has become either inadequate or too carplicated to be under- stood by those seeking our return to that age before the great Enlightenment; Have the Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Jewish traditions in which most

.of us had found expression, and whidu to a large extent shaped Canada and the Western World, become . no longer sufficient to meet our (supernatural) metaphysical needs? If this is so, then it seems, quite sadly, that rejection of the traditional faiths has been because of the rational acceptance of science that these faiths have made. The mly « churches whose membership rolls are rising at a faster pace than the Bay of, Fundy tides are those

who, by their rejection

of scientific truth, are quaintly called "Old

time religion", id est Fundamental beliefs in— cluding (among other 16th century things) a_ belief including a personal Devil, upon whom all manner of things may be blamed.

In this so —called "Age of Reason" how is it possible that there are millions of faithful, at times fanatical, followers of astrology, demonology, scientology, and all of the other

_ phony "ologys" festering

in our midst?! Otherwise rational individuals become incensed and indignant~ when their irrational beliefs in star charts, date‘of birth planetary movements, and personal demons are attadced for what they are in reality: garbage! 'Jhroughout the United States and Canada there are even people, acting under the pretext of ‘ science, who call them- selves "creationists" whose desire it is to have

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hoax. 'Ihe "haunted" house in Amityville, which for all intents and purposes ,, seems to be a quiet middle class dwelling on Long Island, New York, is in

Biblical creatim (as found in Genesis) taught in public school systems across North America \

as a replace'nent of, or at par with, evolution as "scientific" in its cwn right. 'Ihrough the "miracles" of T.V. and radio, one may listen to the” ravings of an (if one . may- excvse the expressim) ungodly number of Charla- tans. Modem day "Elmer Gantrys" who "sell" God

reality a quiet middle class dwelling on 1mg Island, New York. ghosts". apparitiqls» ‘ , demons,_'doors hell, or - any other of the myster-A .ious happenings'clained in an over—rated, over-priced bod: or in the even more ' sensaticnalized film ‘ version thereof, are to be fomd. As with most fairy . tales,—-this one might be a nice story for a rainy night, but don't take it to heart. If our civiliz- ation is to be preserved we must exorcize the ignorance of our‘ past, which is the stupidity of our present. Or shall .we all gather together one ,night to bay at the moon”

carmodities, and reap in

salvation!

Returning to whence we. began on this trek through the bizarre, 'Ihe Ami 'lle Horror, we find that, as is the case with most of the supposed "true" stories of the occult (others are merely mismderstood I natural phenomena) it is in reality no more than a deliberately perpetuated.

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