Now, I’m as uncomfortable as the next Honda-driving, NPR-listening, New York Times–reading progressive with the notion of exorcising demons. When I get to those stories in the New Testament, I’m inclined to take the sophisticated approach and assume the people who had demons cast out of them were healed of mental illness or epilepsy or something like that (which, when you think about it, simply requires exchanging one highly implausible story for another).
