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About Lewis Ashmore
- Lewis Leland Ashmore (October 18, 1931 – March 24, 2008) was a 20th-century American religious leader and a member of the board of directors and the founding vice president of the Universal Life Church founded by Kirby J.
- Hensley. When Ashmore helped his friend Kirby J.
- Hensley to found the Universal Life Church in Modesto, California (1959-1962), they were both freelance southern ministers who had migrated to California.
- A Mississippi native, he ran a church in Tehachapi, California.
- While a member of the church he wrote the book The Modesto Messiah: The Famous Mail-Order Minister and produced a movie of the same title.
- The movie did not see general release and there are no known publicly available copies in existence.Ashmore was a noted exorcist having performed hundreds of exorcisms since the 1950s.
- "For decades Rev.
- Lewis Ashmore cast out devils during tent revivals in the Central Valley.
- People foamed at the mouth, talked back to him in a strange voice and writhed uncontrollably on the ground." Aged 75, two years before he died, Ashmore concluded that demonic possession could be explained in the 21st century by modern medicine.
- "Back in Christ’s day, these mental conditions weren’t yet diagnosed,” he said.
- “All exorcisms can be explained by psychology and science."
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