Monday, November 12, 2007

Woman drowns during exorcism ceremony

A 22-year-old woman died during an exorcism ritual in New Zealand, drowning at a relative's home as up to 40 family members looked on, police said today.


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The woman had been dead for nine hours before her family contacted police. She had been placed on a bed and was found with grazes to her upper arms, forearms and torso.

(Via The Anomalist.)


Isn't religion great? It's a wonder they're not getting a tax exemption for their legal expenses.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hear that the Bush/Cheney administration is green with envy....

Anonymous said...

>> I hear that the Bush/Cheney administration is green with envy....

Huh?

Anonymous said...

tj -- The story somehow reminded me of the whole waterboarding controversy. This sounds similar but with a vengeance!

Anonymous said...

Well considering how our enemies treat our own captured soldiers, I'm not exactly losing any sleep over human debris like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting waterboarded.

Compared to getting your head sawed off with a knife while still conscious, or getting a hole drilled in your head with a power drill, waterboarding is downright "kid gloves" stuff.

I doubt that there has ever been a time in history when one side of a conflict has been so magnanimous towards enemies sworn to kill them as with the modern the US military towards Islamofacists. I'm thankful that someone out there is willing to do the ugly stuff that war entails so people like me don't have to.