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Four-Year-Old Boy Dies During Exorcism

The Russian media is reporting that Dmitry Kazachuk, 4, died during an exorcism in the Primorye region. Doctors believe the boy had pneumonia. No one by the shaman was present with the boy when he stopped breathing.

The family asked had gone to shaman So Dyavor, 59, and her husband, Kim Sende, 62, to get help for the grandmother, who has diabetes. However, So Dyavor told them that the entire family was cursed by the boy and required a full exorcism. Remarkably, killing a child in an exorcism is only punished by a maximum of three years in prison.

Source: Moscow Times.

31 thoughts on “Four-Year-Old Boy Dies During Exorcism”

  2. That the best lies contain an element of truth is a truism for a reason.

    As Blouise noted, it’s true.

  3. Gyges

    Buddha, et al.

    ….

    In this case Tootie is partially right.

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    Spin, well done, is always partially right … disinformation, well presented, always contains some facts … propaganda, well advanced, always encompasses some truth … truthiness on the other hand ….

    The problem in answering the Tootie Group is that one never knows which personality is at the keyboard. I prefer the evening Tootie to the 4:00am Tootie but that’s just me. (notice the facts within that paragraph? … come on Gyges, I’m trying to lead by example here …)

  4. Buddha, et al.

    Pol Pot was an atheist. An interesting look at the aftermath of his regime’s anti-religious actions can be found in “The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha,” by Stephen T. Asma.

    You could make a good argument that most flavors of Communism initially take a note from the ancients and deify their leaders, but they don’t go as far as to proclaim them gods or demi-gods. This seems to be more a tool of totalitarian rule than of anything else (Yet another thing Orwell got right, Huxley briefly touches on that in “Island”).

    In this case Tootie is partially right. Folks is folks; religion is usually a justification for following instincts left over from when we were just a few scattered tribes of a few dozen members. Of course, the uncritical way of thinking that religion (in general) puts people in the habit of using is a necessary part of getting large groups of people to support atrocities. As is the unquestioning acceptance of having to obey authority that fundamentalism (of any sort) seems to entail.

  5. Tootles,

    I ridicule the ridiculous.

    What I hate are various forms of stupidity.

    You do the rest of that math if you are capable of adding one plus one and getting an answer that’s not 11.

  6. Tootie

    Buddha, Some day, when your brain ripens, you will understand what I said.

    And few religious people in history hate as much as you.

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    The Inquisitors of The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the late 1400’s did a pretty good job of Christian hating under the guise of saving.

    The Nazis of the mid 1900’s did a pretty good job of Christian hating under the guise of cleansing.

    The Manifest Destiny supporters did a pretty good job of Christian hating under the guise of heathen removal.

    So I beg to differ with the Group … historical religious people have perfected the art of hatred … the green guy just ridicules it.

  8. Buddha, Some day, when your brain ripens, you will understand what I said.

    And few religious people in history hate as much as you.

  9. ooo. “fairy tale”. That’s what happens when one drinks and blogs.

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