Lewis Ashmore

Lewis Leland Ashmore (October 18, 1931 – March 24, 2008)[1] 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.

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.

[citation needed] Ashmore was a noted exorcist having performed hundreds of exorcisms since the 1950s.

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.