Demons

I just read something interesting. Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, claims a demon drove him to torture and murder people for sexual gratification.

A 2005 interview aired last night. I didn’t see it. I read about it today. I don’t see much of the material online. I do have a quotation.

I personally think, and I know it’s not very Christian, but I actually think it’s a demon that’s within me. At some point in time, it entered me when I was young, and it basically controlled me.

What is it that bothers me about this quotation? Two things.

First, this man’s life, and the lives of his victims, may have been destroyed unnecessarily by ignorance about demons.

Second, he says the notion of having a demon inside him is “not very Christian.”

This man was a churchgoer. He presumably sat through a lot of sermons. Why didn’t he know how common demons are or how to get rid of them? His religion let him down, just as it lets everyone else down. The people in charge of doctrine teach powerless garbage they steal from secular and pagan sources, and they fail to tell us how to lead victorious lives.

Jesus cast demons out of people, and so did his disciples. His followers are supposed to do it today. Many do. Yet there are preachers all over the world who seem to think demons are rare or even imaginary, or that they can’t afflict Christians.

It’s as if we have roach problems, and when we hire exterminators, they tell us roaches are imaginary, or they come to our houses and spray distilled water or even pancake syrup on the baseboards.

Demons love church; they filled Italy’s churches with nude sculptures and paintings. They love infesting Christians. They love warping our desires and harming our bodies. They enjoy killing us with diseases. They rule over us, like the gentiles who occupied Jerusalem and Israel. We’re supposed to be the head and not the tail, but we are servants in our own flesh houses. We can’t even rule our minds and bodies.

Some people are skeptical of claims like the one BTK made. They see them as efforts to evade blame. Does that make sense in the context of the story of a man serving multiple life sentences? He says he’s a serial killer. He confessed. He has no hope of ever seeing the light of day again. What does he have to gain by saying a demon was involved?

I don’t know what his intentions were, but I’m sure he wasn’t expecting people to think more highly of him because of demonic influence.

It’s interesting that sex drives so many serial killers, and it is perhaps more interesting that most people don’t know it.

To a normal person, tying someone else up and killing them would not be sexually rewarding. The thought of it would tend to kill arousal and make sex impossible. To Dennis Rader, it was the height of sexual expression and pleasure.

When people talk about Ted Bundy, they rarely mention his practice of burying dead girls in secret places so he could go back and have sex with their decaying corpses. We talk about him as though anger were his big problem. It’s not that simple. He had a powerful sexual fetish involving dead bodies.

Jeffrey Dahmer was driven by sex. He was a homosexual, and he wanted mindless sex slaves. He experimented on his victims, trying to turn them into obedient servants. He injected things like hydrochloric acid into his victims’ brains, hoping it would destroy enough tissue to make them obedient.

Some child murderers get tremendous sexual pleasure from torturing children sexually. There was one who nicknamed himself “Pliers” because of his fetish. He used pliers on the private parts of teenage girls. He was proud of it.

Satan’s children seem to think it’s very important to play down the link between sexual perversion and violent crime. I suppose that’s because Satan doesn’t want to stink up his bait. He uses sex to lure people into demonic oppression. He doesn’t want people who indulge fetishes, including homosexuality, to connect their practices with things like rape, murder, torture, addiction, or disease. He hides behind a flag decorated with a rainbow, not a dead child.

BTK left DNA evidence at the scenes of his crimes, and I don’t mean blood or hair follicles. You can guess what it was. He was so aroused, he did what aroused men do, right there at the murder scenes with freshly killed bodies.

The Bible says Jesus’s followers will cast out demons, but very few of us are doing it. It should be a staple on the menu at every church. Strange. How did we get here? We worship an exorcist, but most of us can’t do what he told us to do.

I believe BTK. His claim makes perfect sense to me. I doubt it exonerates him, although it is possible for a demon to override human will. It’s definitely a contributing factor.