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 | 2000-APR: USA: Book published about computer possession: Reverend Jim Peasboro of Savannah GA has written a book "The Devil in the
Machine: Is your computer possessed by a demon?" Some of the points raised in the book by the author are:
Rev. Peasboro said: "I learned that many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers. Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic websites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations. Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally...One woman wept as she confessed to me, 'I feel when I'm on the computer as if someone else or something else just takes over.'" The author had the opportunity to inspect an infected computer. He found that an artificial-intelligence program started up automatically. He said that: "The program began talking directly to me, openly mocked me. It typed out, 'Preacher, you are a weakling and your God is a damn liar.' Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook...I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text. It turned out to be a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" | ||||||||||||
| 2005-JUN: UK: Fundamentalist Christians charged with horrendous abuse of a child during exorcism: Some members of a local Fundamentalist church in East London believed that a ten-year-old girl in their family was a witch. They allegedly beat her, cut her at least 43 times, rubbed chili-peppers into here eyes in order to drive out what they apparently thought was an evil spirit possessing her. More details. | ||||||||||||
| 2005-JUN-15: Romania: Crucified nun dies during alleged exorcism: Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, visited an Eastern Orthodox convent in Tanacu in northern Romania in order to visit a friend. She decided to stay. She suffered from schizophrenia. According to various media reports, she insulted Father Daniel Corogeanu, 29, in front of the congregation. He and the other nuns concluded that Maricica was possessed by Satan and had to undergo an exorcism. They tied up her hands and feet and left he in the cellar of the convent for several days without food. Then they crucified her by tying and chaining her to a cross. She eventually died. According to the local police, Father Daniel and four nuns have been charged with "depriving a victim of freedom, leading to death." This is a charge normally applied to hostage-taking terrorists. More details. | ||||||||||||
| 2005-SEP-08 (approx): Bob Larson featured on Inside Edition and A&E: Inside Edition reviewed the ministry of Bob Larson. In past decades, he specialized in attacking Neopagan religions and the occult. But more recently, he seems to be switching to real live exorcisms. He states that he has done more than 6,000 exorcisms "...more than any living person on the planet" He wanders through the audience at his weekend seminars looking for signs of the devil in the eyes of those possessed. In a video made during the year 2000, he is shown casting out demons, ordering them to come out of possessed persons and go to the pit of Hell. One woman has been exorcised three times: twioce in Texas and once in Alaska. 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2006-MAY-16: Good Morning America coverage
of exorcisms: ABC broadcast a short article about deliverance
ministries. These are conservative Protestant groups who believe that they
can drive indwelling demons from possessed persons. The article featured Bob
Larson of the Center for Spiritual Freedom in north Scottsdale, AZ.
The article is available on YouTube.
Larson said that the money he collects |
"... goes to the ministry to teach people, to train people. The evil that is taking place is happening because the Western world has lost its moral compass. ... Some people have had their demons for so long, they think it’s normal. They think it’s normal to live a dysfunctional confused life. We tell people it’s not."
Gretchen Passantino, a Christian writer who has investigated deliverance ministries. She said: "What he is doing is exploiting and manipulating people, [and] appealing to their fears their needs and sense of inadequacy."
Fr. Gary Thomas of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, CA, was interviewed briefly on the program. He said that the Vatican is asking each diocese to have a trained exorcist on staff. 3
Reference used:
- "Demons in your computer," 2000-MAY-01, Richard Harter's World, http://home.tiac.net/
- "Bob Larson on 'Inside Edition'," Wittenburg [sic] Door, 2005-SEP, at: http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/ This web site features a video from the Inside Edition program.
- "Exorcisms become big business in Arizona," ReligionNewsBlog, 2006-NOV-27, at: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/
Copyright © 2000 to 2006 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Latest update: 2006-NOV-30
Author: B.A. Robinson
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