Movies That Drew Me To God And Prayers
The OP recounts how as a child of about 4, a classmate dared him to watch Medusa (Clash of the Titans); despite repeated failed attempts he finally saw it and from that night could not sleep - Medusa tormented his dreams for months, especially whenever NEPA took the light. By day he was fine, but at night, in his sweetest sleep, the terrors returned.
He only knew "Our Father who art in heaven," which stopped working - until his grandmother taught him a different prayer that showed him he could pray against the things that came after him at night, and it worked: prayer and God defeated those evil things and returned his sweet sleep.
(In a follow-up post he lists the movies that drove him to prayer: Medusa/Clash of the Titans, The Omen (Damien), Hammer House of Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, House, The Exorcist, Hauwa, Willie Willie Hot Cash, Abiku, Ishawaru, old Nollywood ghost movies and Wishmaster - the one that finally made him divorce horror movies forever.)
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