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Rozlee

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28. It's a type of group hysteria and mob mentality.

Reply to Berlum (Reply #26)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 10:18 AM

Oct 2013

My niece and her husband, both devout Catholics, were dragged against their will to a charismatic service by a co-worker of my niece's. She and her husband went along because the woman's husband had died and it was a type of memorial to him, but they had a Catholic distaste for the whole spectacle. Imagine my niece's horror when her husband suddenly joined the group, chanting in glossolalia and swaying around like an idiot. "I don't know what came over me," he told her later contritely. And he didn't know what the hell kind of nonsense he was spouting but he knew it didn't make any sense. He had just gotten caught up in the strong emotion and the mesmerizing effects of the preacher's sermons. I guess I can relate. It must have been a change from the mind-numbingly tedious, anesthetizing readings from the parish priests during Catholic Mass.

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