British exorcist warns that atheism brings Satan into the world

LONDON (CNS) -- Atheism is becoming a key cause of demonic influence in the world, a British exorcist has warned. Father Jeremy Davies, exorcist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, which covers most of London, said that the "spirits inspiring atheism" were those who "hate God." In a new 56-page book called "Exorcism: Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice," Father Davies wrote that Satan had blinded secular humanists from seeing the "dehumanizing effects of contraception and abortion and IVF (in vitro fertilization), of homosexual 'marriages,' of human cloning and the vivisection of human embryos in scientific research." The result, he said, was that Europe was drifting into a dangerous state of apostasy whereby "only (through) a genuine personal decision for Christ and the church can someone separate himself from it." In the book published by the London-based Catholic Truth Society, he said sin was the primary reason people lost their freedom to the power of the devil.