{"id":2159,"date":"2025-05-11T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/on-the-reality-of-demons\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:14:00","slug":"on-the-reality-of-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/on-the-reality-of-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Reality of Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never been one to believe in demons.<br>\nI feel some religious sects that put too much<br>\nattention on them could conjure up fake<br>\ndemons in people\u2019s heads.<\/p>\n<p>They may exist.<br>\nYou read of exorcists claiming they do.<br>\nI choose to not believe in them.<\/p>\n<p>Some demon believing Christians claim<br>\nspiritual experiences I\u2019ve had via<br>\nEastern spiritual practices could<br>\nopen me up to them.<\/p>\n<p>Nonsense, I say.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never had any encounters with anything<br>\ndemonic.<\/p>\n<p>And why put your mind on such negative<br>\nthings? <\/p>\n<p>That to me is opening yourself up to harmful<br>\nbeliefs and possibly making yourself susceptible<br>\nto believing you\u2019re experiencing demonic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, demons could exist, but not in<br>\nmy world.<\/p>\n<p>And no way will I conjure one up by filling my<br>\nworld with unhealthy beliefs in them.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never been one to believe in demons. I feel some religious sects that put too much attention on them could conjure up fake demons in people\u2019s heads. They may exist. You read of exorcists claiming they do. I choose to not believe in them. Some demon believing Christians claim spiritual experiences I\u2019ve had via&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/on-the-reality-of-demons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}