The Devil Made Me Do It—A Serious Examination of a Subject of Caricature and Horror

Course | Registration opens 8/12/2024 8:00 AM EDT

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States

Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C

Members and nonmembers

11/14/2024-11/21/2024

3:00 PM-4:30 PM EDT on Th

$40.00

$16.00

In The Exorcist, the possessed girl’s head rotates 360 degrees, she floats above the priests’ heads, and her bed shakes violently on its own. Any reality there? Where does evil come from? Is it solely within the human heart? Or is there some actual invisible malevolent force behind it? Satan, a laughingstock, or a nightmarishly real being? Recent polls show that 56% of us believe in Satan. To sort it out, we’ll look at the Bible, and religious scholarship, and popular culture, and some personal experience to see if there’s any credible evidence of a real being, an enemy of mankind out to destroy us.

Marc Benton has a master’s degree in communications from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in divinity from Yale Divinity School. He has thirty years of pulpit ministry and taught communications at the college level for thirty-one years at the State University of New York Orange County, York College of Pennsylvania, and Harrisburg Area Community College.