Demons are fallen angels, right? The Gospels never say so. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace the Greek word daimon from Homer’s gods and Hesiod’s ghosts to the Church Fathers, and find who first called a demon a fallen angel.

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Links for this episode:

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 414
• Plato, Symposium (Perseus Digital Library)
• Hesiod, Works and Days (Project Gutenberg)
• Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food, Book II
• The Book of Enoch (R. H. Charles translation)
• Justin Martyr, The First Apology (New Advent)
• Justin Martyr, The Second Apology (New Advent)
• Tatian, Address to the Greeks (New Advent)
• Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians (New Advent)
• Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book II (New Advent)
• Origen, De Principiis, Preface (New Advent)
• Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Book II (CCEL)
• Augustine, The City of God, Book V (New Advent)
• Fr. Gabriele Amorth, Possessioni Inquietanti – Anime Dannate e Vaganti (YouTube, in Italian)

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Chapters:

• 0:00:00 – Intro
• 0:01:17 – What is a demon?
• 0:02:36 – Demons in world religions
• 0:08:44 – The Catholic definition: fallen angels
• 0:10:41 – Demon, unclean spirit, evil spirit: one cluster
• 0:17:20 – The fallen angel cluster
• 0:23:04 – Reading without anachronism
• 0:24:57 – Daimon as a god: Homer
• 0:26:46 – Daimon as an intermediate being: Plato
• 0:27:52 – Porphyry’s sacrifice-craving daimones
• 0:31:24 – Ghosts of the golden race: Hesiod
• 0:33:57 – Good men become daimones: Plato
• 0:35:34 – Ordinary ghosts: Apuleius
• 0:37:48 – Lemurs and larvae
• 0:39:08 – Thank you to Patrons
• 0:39:39 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
• 0:40:30 – Sponsor: Grave Tending Solutions
• 0:42:19 – Demons in the Septuagint
• 0:44:33 – The midday demon
• 0:47:07 – Goat demons in Isaiah
• 0:49:24 – Asmodeus in Tobit
• 0:52:44 – 1 Enoch: the spirits of the giants
• 0:56:30 – Jubilees and Mastema
• 1:00:16 – Philo: demons are angels
• 1:02:13 – Josephus: good and wicked ghosts
• 1:05:11 – Demons in later Judaism
• 1:08:40 – Church Fathers: Justin and Athenagoras
• 1:13:02 – Justin Martyr and human ghosts
• 1:14:50 – Tatian: the first fallen-angel demons
• 1:17:35 – Theophilus of Antioch
• 1:18:50 – Origen: still an open question
• 1:20:45 – Lactantius: two kinds of demons
• 1:23:07 – Augustine settles it in the West
• 1:24:31 – The New Testament: demons as pagan gods
• 1:27:44 – The demons Jesus cast out
• 1:29:23 – The Gerasene demoniac
• 1:32:15 – Beelzebul, the prince of demons
• 1:35:22 – Can the dead possess the living?
• 1:36:19 – Rule 14 and Fr. Gabriele Amorth
• 1:40:48 – The Earling exorcism and Begone Satan
• 1:42:37 – Anneliese Michel
• 1:46:21 – Faith Perspective
• 1:48:42 – Bottom Line
• 1:49:49 – Further Resources
• 1:50:35 – Mysterious Feedback: #431 Are Auras Real?
• 1:56:48 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:57:22 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:57:34 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:58:38 – Next Time: Pope Benedict on Adam, original sin and aliens
• 1:58:58 – Share the show / write a review
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• 1:59:15 – Show notes
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• 2:00:50 – Outro

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Could a confession made through a remote-controlled robot body be valid? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions with Cy Kellett, from the Lady in Blue and chili to time in purgatory, vampire cops and the dirt Adam was made from.

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Chapters:

• 0:00:00 – Intro
• 0:00:44 – Programming note: Weird Questions Month
• 0:00:55 – Today’s weird questions
• 0:02:03 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions with Cy Kellett
• 0:03:25 – Why Jimmy takes every weird question
• 0:05:17 – Did the Virgin Mary invent chili? (Franke)
• 0:14:14 – Was the Lady in Blue speaking in tongues?
• 0:22:58 – Are UFOs from cryptoterrestrials or time travelers? (George)
• 0:27:19 – Do animals praise God in their own way? (Deepika)
• 0:37:07 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
• 0:40:14 – Are cryptid, UFO and ghost sightings thought forms? (Robert)
• 0:50:05 – How to investigate a ghost sighting
• 0:51:30 – Thank you to Patrons
• 0:51:59 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
• 0:52:43 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
• 0:54:02 – How to pronounce Coggeshall
• 0:57:06 – Confession and Communion through a flesh-and-blood robot? (Damian)
• 1:09:14 – What was Jesus looking at in a remote viewing session? (M T Wardell)
• 1:15:07 – A cowboy hat and boots without a horse? (Eugene)
• 1:18:46 – Elementary and the poop emoji
• 1:20:34 – How does time work in purgatory? (Mark)
• 1:31:12 – Could a vampire cop serve a search warrant? (Joey Bag of Donuts)
• 1:39:39 – Was Adam made from dinosaur dirt? (Lydia)
• 1:42:47 – Mysterious Feedback: #430 Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman
• 1:58:14 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:58:48 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:58:53 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:59:45 – Next Time: What Are Demons?
• 2:00:46 – Share the show
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• 2:01:05 – Show notes
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• 2:01:39 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 2:02:02 – Outro

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