Comments on: Police Officer and Two Other Adults Criminally Charged After Holding Teen for 12-Hour Exorcism

By: Daily Briefing — 7th-8th July 2009 « Little Alex in Wonderland

Daily Briefing — 7th-8th July 2009 « Little Alex in Wonderland — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:25:36 +0000

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By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:04:03 +0000

When will they come for you? Coming soon to any from of Religion. But is this really a valid exorcism. FYI, the Catholic Church does not have a the exclusivity for exorcisms. Would Mike S. care to share on this?

By: Dredd

Dredd — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:30:34 +0000

You think this is rad, and it is, check out the science police:

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/science-police.html

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:16:48 +0000

Exorcism is clearly covered under the dept. of law.

This is not an exorcism story but it’s a story about church and how religious ideology can account for so much pain in our lives. (Plenty of secular ideology works the same way.) from This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=360

“360: Switched At Birth

On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth changed two families’ lives—and how it didn’t.”

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:08:44 +0000

Rich,

In some corners of this nation Episcopalians are the snake handlers!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:59:23 +0000

I thought exorcisms were a Catholic thing or a fundie/evangelical thing, but Lutherans. I would think they’d view this as papist nonsense.

By: Dredd

Dredd — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:46:37 +0000

Cuff him Beetlejuice …

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:43:45 +0000

While I am not shocked at this kind of behavior from Australians, I am a bit shocked it involves Lutherans. All the Lutherans I know, and that’s a few, are all much better behaved than that.