Paranormal activity movie

On Thursday evening I saw the movie, Paranormal activity with friends. The movie was like a cross breed between Syfi channel's Ghost hunters and the movie the Entity. The movie ,which is based on a true story is about a couple , who were plagued by the presence of a negative entity (a demon), who had been pestering the woman since childhood and had followed her to her and her boyfriends new house. The boyfriend had a firewire enabled camcorder that was constantly running to document the activities of the entity. The movie itself did not use the actual footage, but there was an acknowledgment to the families and to a Californian police department, so the movie was inspired by the footage that was actually caught. The occurrences and actions become more intense as the movie progressed and the boyfriend aquiring a Ouija board provoked the beast.Despite consulting a paranormal specialist, who only specialized in human based entities, who was freaked out by the house recommended a demonologist , who they were never able to get in contact with. The movie remained eerie to the end when the woman became possessed and killed her boyfriend. After the movie I came to a few realizations. There have been actually several cases of similar incidents and some of the better known ones have occurred in California. This made me think of the faces of death documentaries , which among other things showed footage of police raiding makeshift Satanic temples in California and the horrors that were discovered. This begs the question is there a correlation between cultists and paranormal events?

This correlation has been addressed in fantasy games such as Warhammer 40k, which pits the Imperium of man against numerous races of aliens and demons as well as fallen men who have offered their fealty to the dark gods. In one story , the battle of Vogen, cultists plan a revolt against the imperial government and populace on the planet of Vogen and summon demons and the help of Chaos space marines to help in their revolution. At first imperial loyalists are severely outnumbered but imperial reinforcements with inclusion of the imperial guard ( genetically unmodified human soliders who kind of resemble starship troopers) and superhuman genetically altered space marines (the futurustic equivalent of knights) arrive and begin to cleanse the world of the cultist scum , which in turn cause the demonic entities to faze out of this plane of reality back into the warp. In other words, it was argued that their power became weak when none one was devoted to them. While this is just fantasy, it does make a good point, are these negative entities empowered by cultists who devote themselves to the forces of darkness?

This brings up another point, where is fine line of acceptability in the first amendment for religion? I have brought this point up in the past for conversation with friends. Some of my friends who are semi-christian/neo-pagan reason that just as long as the religion does not compromise the safety of the citizens it would be acceptable. One thing is for sure, even free societies needs defined limits , especially when all religions are basically put on the same pedestal of validity in the eyes of the U.S. government.

This movie also made me realize that there are still a ton of things that we have still learn about our planet and the universe for that matter and life and death itself. Denying that unusual events occur around us will not make them stop.