In our brave new world, multicultural and diverse as it is, our moral sensibilities can often be rattled by the brutishness and ignorance of many cultural traditions that make their way to our shores. As some of you reading this blog may remember, my heart bleeds for the way African children are tortured due to a dangerous mix of new and ancient religious superstitions. The Christian crusade to possess Afri ...

I'm trying to identify what part of this video terrifies me the most. Is it the fact that these girls were performing dangerous exorcisms in Africa, a nation plagued by deadly superstitions? Is it the creepy, prideful grins on their faces as they enthusiastically nod to each other, casually describing doing one of these messed up seances to one of their non-believing friends? Is it their certainty that a ye ...

The Catholic Church has been playing at nonsense so long, they think their own bullshit doesn't stink. How else can you explain how an octogenarian master of fantasy can say something as idiotic as this: Practising yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter,” he told a film festival in Umbria this week, where he was invited to introduce The Rite, a film about exorcism starring Sir Anth ...

In the slums of Khanewal, Pakistan, the poor and indigent who suffer from treatable illnesses are sent, often by physicians wishing to unload their patients, to the Islamic equivalent of exorcists. They are called Pirs (or Peers), meaning "old man", and these "saints" often perform barbaric torture rituals they believe can clean people of djinns, or demons. One victim of their archaic stupidity was a woman ...

"Inspired by true events". What the fuck does that even mean? Father Gary Thomas believes that people who practice Wicca, the harmless bullshit so many young women fall for, are corrupted by the devil. Does he have any proof? It's morons like this guy who remind us all why we're lucky the church isn't in control anymore. This idiot claims about 80% of the people claiming demonic possession have suffered som ...

You hear this kind of news all the time; an independent or strong willed woman is deemed to be possessed, and an exorcism ceremony is performed, usually resulting in tragedy. Here is such a tragic tale, this time coming out of New Zealand. 5 people were arrested and found guilty of the manslaughter of Janet Moses, but not one of these people will be facing any jail time. They were given 300 hours of communi ...

You know, I've personally always been fascinated by the false charity some of these churches offer. They pretend to welcome everyone to their fold, but the reality is if you don't follow their instructions to the letter, you are deemed to be a sinner and unworthy of salvation. Her own words: "We welcome anyone in our church, all we're saying that we do not like the lifestyle of a man with a man, or a woman ...

I've seen a lot of exorcisms in my time, but watching this guy move around, I think I can safely say he is indeed possessed by a gay demon. Otherwise, performing such an assault on a human being would be just a gigantic waste of time, effort, energy, and would be intellectually embarrassing. You can tell how experienced they are too when they break out the paper towel and plastic bag just in time for him to ...

When Ann Landers died (real name Esther Pauline Friedman), her daughter took over the family 'advice column' racket. She didn't, however, take on the famous moniker. Her column is a fairly innocuous and predictable affair, except perhaps for a recent letter she received: Our daughter started college a year ago, and we’ve noticed during her visits home that she’s not the sweet, innocent girl we sent away for ...

I wish everyone just stopped trying to exorcise demons out of people. It's an obviously very dangerous, and utterly pointless thing to do. Of course, you can't seem to get superstitious ignoramuses to sit and listen to reason. Now it looks like ten people will soon be going to jail over the death of Janet Moses, a New Zealand woman who drowned during one of these stupid curse-lifting ceremonies. The troop i ...