#12359 What Can Demons Do in Our Daily Lives? AMA Demons & Angels w/@JimmyAkin - Jimmy Akin
Catholic Answers Live
Catholic Answers
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
“What can demons do in our daily lives?” This episode explores the influence of demons, addressing questions like whether they can be seen as mere metaphors for human evil and what powers they truly possess. We also delve into the nature of demons and angels, their fall from grace, and practical advice on avoiding their negative impact.
Join the Catholic Answers Live Club Newsletter
Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com
Questions Covered:
- 02:13 – Is it permitted to think of demons merely as metaphors for human evil?
- 08:38 – What is a demon?
- 19:42 – What do they actually have the power to do in our daily lives?
- 28:45 – Are demons and angels equal in power?
- 40:35 – Why did the demons fall? Meaning, what could possibly have tempted an angel away from God?
- 47:55 – How do I avoid demons and stay out of their evil clutches?
- 51:25 – What’s the difference between demonic possession, oppression, and obsession?
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent. |
| 0:05.2 | When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers. |
| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Kathy Gans was live. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Cy Kelly, your host. |
| 0:33.5 | Yesterday, it was the Blessed Trinity. |
| 0:36.9 | And today we're going the opposite direction. We're going |
| 0:39.0 | complete opposite direction. Try to think, what's the opposite direction of talking about the |
| 0:43.5 | Blessed Trinity? Yep, we're going to talk about demons today. We've got Jimmy Aiken here with |
| 0:46.7 | the senior apologist at Catholic Answers, and I've got questions I want to ask him about demons, |
| 0:52.6 | and then the second hour, I'll let you ask him whatever you'd like to ask him about demons. |
| 0:57.6 | And that number is 8883-1-8-7-884. |
| 1:01.9 | And in addition to being a senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, Jimmy is author of, oh, look at a whole bunch of books. |
| 1:08.4 | The Bible is a Catholic book. |
| 1:10.1 | The Father's No Best, Teaching with Authority at a whole bunch of books. The Bible is a Catholic book. The Father's No Best, |
| 1:12.1 | teaching with authority, a daily defense. I got a stack of Jimmy Aiken books right here next to me. |
| 1:18.3 | Jimmy Aiken, welcome. Thanks for doing this with us today. My pleasure, Cycallet. |
| 1:23.8 | Is this a topic that you have covered on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world? |
| 1:27.6 | In various ways, yes, and have done a good bit on it and plan to do quite a bit more in the future. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay, so I know you have done some very good stuff. |
| 1:39.2 | I've enjoyed the stuff you've done on exorcisms, and it just seems an area that is ripe for both scholarship and |
| 1:51.0 | chicanery. Yep, both of those things. Yeah. How about that? Yeah, I guess because it's unseen. |
| 1:58.6 | And people, so I know that you take a, well, you take the approach of faith and reason, and you'll apply |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catholic Answers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Catholic Answers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.