"Passion" Composer Wrestles, Defeats Satan
We should all rejoice in the release of Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ," because it represents, quite literally, a defeat over Satan.
Composer John Debney, who wrote the score for the film, says that he had to battle the Evil One over several months to finish the project:
"What it did was completely strengthen my faith and I have realized something very interesting. I had never before subscribed to the idea that maybe Satan is a real person, but I can attest that he was in my room a lot and I know that he hit everyone on this production."
Debney said that the battle he felt with Satan as he wrote the music became "really personal between us."
He went on to say, "I had all these computers and synthesizers in my studio and the hard drives would go down and the digital picture that lives on the computer with the music would just freeze on his [Satan's] face. Then the volume would go to ten and it would happen all the time.
"The first time it happened, it scared me," Debney said. "Once I got over the initial shock of that, I learned to work around it and learned to reboot the computers and so I would start talking to him.
"There was one day when I had been on the movie for about four months when it really became bad that day and a lot of things that were causing doubt in me and I had had enough. The computers froze for about the tenth time that day and it was about nine o'clock at night and so I got really mad, and I told Satan to manifest himself and I said, 'Let's go out into the parking lot and let's go.' It was a sea change in me. I knew that this was war. I am not a physical person, but I was really angry on this occasion.
However, as we can see with the many critics of the movie, we have won the battle but not the war. Satan does not want people to see the film.
And this is why so many faithful have flocked to it. As Connecticut governor John Rowland observed,
I think there is an explosion of faith taking place in our country. And it is an explosion of faith because evil is everywhere.
Gov. Rowland should know. He is besieged by the Satanic Connecticut legislature to this day.
UPDATEAnd I hope you've also heard about the whole 666 ticket number controversy:
The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price.
"It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence," Smith said. "It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer."
In religion, as in politics, nothing is a coincidence.
If Satan can manipulate computers this way, there's no telling what he can do with computer voting technology.
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