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

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Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States
Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C
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11/14/2024-11/21/2024
3:00 PM-4:30 PM EST on Th

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

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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

Marc Benton has an  MA in Communication from University of Kentucky; an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School; thirty years as a Presbyterian Pastor in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and thirty years of college teaching communications at SUNY Orange, York College, and HACC with special interests in religion, perception, personality, and marketing.