Sex with demons and witches
The Daily Beast has more on Stella Immanuel.
Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches.
She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical treatments, and that scientists are cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious. And, despite appearing in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by “reptilians” and other aliens.
Immanuel gave her viral speech on the steps of the Supreme Court at the “White Coat Summit,” a gathering of a handful of doctors who call themselves America’s Frontline Doctors and dispute the medical consensus on the novel coronavirus. The event was organized by the right-wing group Tea Party Patriots, which is backed by wealthy Republican donors.
Ok why? I still don’t get it. How is this a Republican thing or a rich people thing? How does it benefit them? How does it tickle their right-wing pleasure center? How is this political in the first place?
Unless…is it as simple as: Donald Trump is ignorant and stupid, therefore we need to big up things that are stupid and rooted in ignorance, so that he won’t look so out on a limb with his stupid ignorance? Is that it?
Immanuel said in her speech that the supposed potency of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment means that protective face masks aren’t necessary, claiming that she and her staff had avoided contracting COVID-19 despite wearing medical masks instead of the more secure N95 masks.
“Hello, you don’t need a mask. There is a cure,” Immanuel said.
Toward the end of Immanuel’s speech, the event’s organizer and other participants can be seen trying to get her away from the microphone. But footage of the speech captured by Breitbart was a hit online, becoming a top video on Facebook and amassing roughly 13 million views…
And getting Don Junior suspended from Twitter.
Immanuel is a registered physician in Texas, according to a Texas Medical Board database, and operates a medical clinic out of a strip mall next to her church, Firepower Ministries.
Ah, a strip mall clinic. That sounds confidence-inspiring.
In sermons posted on YouTube and articles on her website, Immanuel claims that medical issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility, and impotence are caused by sex with “spirit husbands” and “spirit wives”—a phenomenon Immanuel describes essentially as witches and demons having sex with people in a dreamworld.
“They are responsible for serious gynecological problems,” Immanuel said. “We call them all kinds of names—endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband,” Immanuel said of the medical issues in a 2013 sermon.
Definitely want to take medical advice from that doctor.
Uh … you just can’t make this shit up. Where does she get it from?
I remember this from the early eighties, but didn’t realize that it was a documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)
Or maybe it was the late eighties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
You ask
Some years back, in a different context, I wrote
I’m also flashing on some commentary from way back in the Star Wars days, when someone pointed out that there was no point spending billions of dollars on a satellite-based missile-defense system when
I think what we’re seeing here is a bucket of sand in a retrograde orbit. Republicans see themselves losing in the current environment, so they are doing everything they can to destroy that environment. Right now, it’s mostly a battle of words: they are working to undermine/discredit/destroy conventional standards of truth and evidence and reason and behavior. But if it comes to it, they will destroy the country to keep themselves on top. They want to be king of the ash heap.
Harald, #1:
The sex with demons and witches in dreams part dates back to medieval times when unexplained illnesses were often blamed on repeated visits when asleep from either an Incubus – a male demon that preyed on women – or a succubus, the female counterpart.
Reptilian aliens running countries is a relatively new conspiracy theory; the first version that I heard in the mid-1980s was that the British royal family were the reptilians, and I’d guess that the 1983 American mini-series, V (with Robert ‘Freddy Krueger’ Englund playing a kind-hearted alien who assists the human resistance), played a large part in that. I assume that V would have inspired the conspiracy in America first since that’s where the programme was first aired.
I’m sure the rest of the good (!) doctor’s ideas can also be found in the lexicon of conspiracy theories.
My apologies to Another Random Commentor, who has already mentioned the link with V.
Much as I wish it were, I don’t believe it’s as simple as Trump’s stupidity. Throughout the world there are powerful people who are watching in horror as the most important thing, profit, is being lost to measures designed to protect a less important thing, ordinary people’s lives. Add to that the fact that large proportion of those ordinary people are elderly and therefore “not productive”, and it’s easy to see how they might be attracted to a Trump-like narrative of “it’s all a fuss about nothing”. Unherd (“I only read it for the feminist articles”) in particular seem to be pushing a softer version of this. I suppose that at least we can be thankful the unredacted version can only be spoken under the cover of Trump-level ignorance and stupidity.
“Firepower Ministries” just sounds so American, so… right on the nose. It pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.
@AoS As far as secret aliens controlling the planet, don’t forget that classic They Live starring Rowdy Woddy Piper. It’s one of my husbands ‘so bad it’s good’ favorite movies.
My serious point: I’ve talked here previously about my work in West Africa in preeclampsia. It’s a sadly very common disorder – ~20% of pregnancies. Too many women and their babies die because of preeclampsia, even in richer countries that have a healthcare system such as Ghana.
Talk like this Stella Immanuel indulges in is extremely dangerous. Women with disorders of pregnancy who survive, but their babies do not, are often blamed. They are called witches and accused of killing their baby especially if she has had to have delivery induced before viability to save her life. A lot of American news and tv programming is available and so talk like this, sometimes promoted by pastors, is very dangerous. Talk like this literally kills women – punishments for losing their baby include killing, maiming or even cast out of their families and their home.