Sleepless

Laying here at 3 am. Thinking about the evil things men do (yes, I have nothing better to do!) and have decided (after posting about the Texas exorcism) that convincing people that they are possessed is an especially egregious instance of evil.
Once it was about trying to explain away some illness or mental [...]

Supreme Court gets Texas exorcism case

In the church’s appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, it raised the question of whether Pleasant Glades’ First Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion do not prevent the church from being held liable for mental distress triggered by what it described as a “hyper spiritualistic environment.”
For the court to impose any legal liability on members [...]

A place for all your excorcisms

A Portugese crackpot has opened his very own “excorcism ward.”
“She is suicidal. This is basically my emergency room,” says 46-year-old Nogueira, popularly known as The Sorcerer of Fafe. Fafe is the place where he started practicing trance mediumship, and later also exorcisms, around 25 years ago. Before that, he spent some time in a psychiatric [...]