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2005-06-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Romanian Ortodox Priest On Trial For Murder After Exorcism Goes Awry

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Posted by BigEd 2005-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So we have a so-called priest who killed a nun with the same method the Romans used when they killed Jesus?

Hmmph.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-19 00:23|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-19 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like an old episode of Law and Order.

Posted by GK 2005-06-19 01:01|| 2005-06-19 01:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Many Christians believe in exorcisms these days... we just had a travelling preacher Bob Larson star on a TV show here: John Safran Vs God (where journalist John Safran road tested religions).

The last episode showed Safran being exorcised and he did indeed scream and perform on camera.

However I saw no difference between the techniques of the preacher and those of a stage hypnotist I once saw at university.

Clearly Safran has a suggestible personality (in an earlier episode he pretended he saw the earth in his clenched fist to an indian Fakir because he felt pressured to) and also Bob Larson has a powerful and charismatic personality that at close quarters can be quite alarming.

It is not harmless fun to make people believe gobbledygook when totally natural and explainable forces are at work.

Posted by anon1 2005-06-19 07:56|| 2005-06-19 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The problem here was one of diagnosis: was the problem psychological (meaning that mental healing, not exorcism, was required), physical (physical healing required), or demonic (exorcism required). Jesus did all three.

However, Jesus never required that the unfortunate victims be bound, crucified, gagged, and left alone to die. Didn't need to. Didn't need all the trappings or bargainings that the priest in The Exorcist. Paul didn't either. In fact, he got in trouble for SUCCEEDING, not FAILING like these losers.

I was once oppressed (not possessed, but oppressed) by a demon who got its foothold in me via my experimentation in ESP while indulging in "scientific psychic research". Stupidest thing I ever did. I attended a meeting of a former witch turned Christian Exorcist who looked like (and acted like) my mother. I stood in line, and felt my belly start shaking the moment she got within two people of me, and got worse the closer she got. I was not freaked out, just puzzled: why the hell was I scared of a lady who could have passed as my Aunt? She got to me, touched me on the forehead, and (I am NOT kidding, and I was NOT emotional) I felt like a damned freight train ran through my belly button. I went down on the floor like a sack of potatos, and THAT didn't happen when I got filled with the Spirit. Dismissing me as "suggestible" puts you in the same class as Lefties who assert, on similar grounds, that someone is racist or that Bush is a Nazi: less a statement of truth than an exercise in paradigm protection at someone else's expense.

Hmpth. Amateurs, poseurs and incompetents.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-06-19 09:44|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-06-19 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 In order to save ~~this village~~ this girl, it was necessary to destroy it her.

Posted by Snirong Hupolung1299 2005-06-19 16:59|| 2005-06-19 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Fatal exorcism priest conducts victim's funeral

When asked whether the nun was mentally ill and in need of medical help instead of exorcism, he responded: "You can't take the devil out of people with pills."

Posted by john 2005-06-19 21:12|| 2005-06-19 21:12|| Front Page Top

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