A man in the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not." Mark 9:17-18 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. "You deaf and mute spirit," he said, "I command you, come out of him and never enter him again." Mark 9:25
Of course, since the boy had a real medical condition and not a demon that required a Ghostbuster; he had another seizure later that day. You see, throughout the vast majority of human history, human beings were completely ignorant about seizures, cancer, embolisms, kidney stones, cardiac arrest, mental disorders, germs, lightning, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunder, volcanoes, eclipses, and thousands of other things that mystified them, frightened them, and killed them out of the blue. Is it really so mysterious why religions evolved?
