Cesar Truqui, a Catholic priest and exorcist was sitting in a plane in front of two lesbians. He felt Satan’s presence. As he silently sought to repel the evil spririt through prayer, one of the women, he said, started growling demonically and threw chocolates at his head. “Once you hear a Satanic growl”, he is quoted as saying,”you never forget it. It’s like smelling a margherita pizza for the first time. It’s something you never forget”. (Washington Post May 11, 2014).

It appears that the Pope is reviving the medieval belief in the Devil as a “tempter” and “father of lies”. This idea is clearly the coming thing.

Listen for demonic growls and odors of margherita pizzas around people who deny the poor a living wage and affordable health care, who advocate loaded guns in churches and bars, and other hallmarks of those who advocate a sharply divided and unempathetic society. Next step: Congressional exorcists.

I am, of course, joking. Epicurus lived 1300 years ago, when superstition was nearly universal. Yet he dismissed all these nonsensical beliefs. People “possessed” have a mental disease that can be treated by the medical profession. As for interpreting lesbianism (how did he know they were lesbians, anyway?) as evil – well, if you are reading this post you are almost certainly a rational person, and there is no need for comment by me.