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This is Part 4 of a 7 part series called “Hacking Catholicism”.

Prior articles on Hacking Catholicism:
Hacking Catholicism: Part 1 – Introduction
Hacking Catholicism Part 2 – God Is A Programmer And A Lover
Hacking Catholicism Part 3: The Catholic Church As A Code Library

Hacking Catholicism Part 4: Demon Crackers And Their Exploits
By Marcus Guevara

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In the beginning…

In the beginning of this series I talked about the difference between Hackers and Crackers. Hackers are the good guys. Crackers are the bad guys.

I’ve always been interested in demonology (the study of demons) from the Catholic perspective. There’s nothing wrong with having a curiosity in the dark side of the supernatural world. I actually believe it’s important for all Catholic’s to be aware of what the Catholic Church teaches about demons and the devil.

For all those who don’t know the story about Lucifer and how he became to be “the” devil I will give a very short account. The devil, was once a beautiful angel. In fact, the Church teaches that he was the most beautiful angel and the closest to God before his fall. His name, Lucifer, means “light bearer”. He became prideful and decided to lead a rebellion against God. His rebellion resulted in his eternal separation from God. Since God is love, goodness, joy and beauty, the devil and his fellow demons were then separated from enjoying those gifts. They are now bitter, hateful, and ugly.

Demons are bad angels but they are still angels. They still retain their nature. This means that demons are vastly more intelligent than human beings on Earth and they have a far more powerful nature.
Since Angels do not have bodies the battle that demons waged against God and his faithful angels was an intellectual battle. They were wrong and thus they lost but they continue to do damage to us here on Earth. But how? They exploit our weakness in the same way that crackers exploit the weaknesses of their targets. It’s still an intellectual battle.

Ethical Hacking

Hacking is an art that requires understanding an manipulating a target in an intelligent way. People who try to launch random cyber attacks without any knowledge of the target are likely to not be successful. However, people who spend time understanding the target, exploring weaknesses, and launching strategic attacks are likely to be successful. As an ethical hacker I spend time learning how criminal hackers work. I try to understand the way that they think and I learn the tools and methods that they use. This approach can be very beneficial from a spiritual standpoint as well. Learning more about how demons work can help us to be ready for their attacks to protect ourselves.

C.S. Lewis’s book, The Screwtape Letters is a fictional account of a series of letters from a senior demon to his nephew, Wormwood, who is a junior demon. The senior demon’s letters mentor his nephew on how to tempt humans into sin. This book is like ethical hacker training for spiritual warfare. It gives a great glimpse into how demon crackers exploit human weakness.

Demons are very smart criminal hackers. They attack us indirectly. They don’t kill us – they get us to kill ourselves. They exploit our tendencies to be prideful, selfish, fearful and stubborn. They confuse and disorient us. They get us to believe in an idea and we act on it. It then becomes our sin. It’s like Inception. The most effective way to get us to sin is to make us believe their influence is our own idea. If we believe it is our own idea – we trust it.

Inception

Inception is possible. The movie was a little fantastical but the underlying concept of the movie isn’t so far fetched. We don’t need to put someone to sleep, hook them up to a machine, and enter their dream to perform inception. Modern day music does a great job of performing inception on massive amounts of people. If you want to create an army of people enslaved to their lustful desires you simply need to play Lady Gaga’s “Do What You Want With My Body” or Miley Cyrus’s “We Won’t Stop” on radio stations all over the world, on television, YouTube, at house parties and concerts. Give them millions of dollars for flaunting their bodies on television and you’ll have an army of young girls believing the idea that success comes from taking off your clothes and being willing to hand over the most sacred parts of their bodies to boys. When those girls start getting pregnant at a young age or after sleeping with a guy they don’t know then demons would simply need to convince the girl that the baby is nothing more than tissue. If that doesn’t work they can start a campaign that the choice to kill the baby is up to the woman since it is “her body”. They exploit us when we are self conscious, wanting to be loved and desired even in the wrong ways, and take advantage of our willingness to experience sexual intimacy and pleasure at the expense of others. They make us believe things like “it’s not that bad”, “there are worse things”, or “that might be true for others but it’s not true for me”. That is inception at it’s greatest.

The way we can fight the demons is to learn more about how they work and prepare ourselves to be ready for their attacks. If we can recognize their attacks we can turn our focus on the real war. The inception and criminal hacking of demons cause division and fighting among people. We begin to fight each other instead of the enemy that is responsible for the damage. Thankfully, God has not left us to fight this war on our own. We have the support of the Priests and Saints – our certified ethical hackers.

* For more information about demons and hell read Fr. Fortea’s book Interview With an Exorcist. I HIGHLY recommend this book. It is in question and answer format and is extremely informative and interesting.

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Hacking Catholicism: Part 1 – Introduction
Hacking Catholicism Part 2 – God Is A Programmer And A Lover
Hacking Catholicism Part 3: The Catholic Church As A Code Library
Hacking Catholicism Part 4: Demon Crackers And Their Exploits [You Are Here]
Hacking Catholicism Part 5: Saints and Priests – Certified Ethical Hackers
Hacking Catholicism Part 6: Gaining Root Access To The Faith
Hacking Catholicism Part 7: Where To Go From Root

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