Comments on: Exorcism Ends In Deadly Stun-Gun Struggle

Phoenix Man Accused Of Choking 3-Year-Old Granddaughter Dies After Fight With Police

[iceman_1960]

In medical illnesses, prayer only seems to "work" for self limiting illnesses, those where spontaneously remission may occur in any event.

Prayer has never helped an amputee to grow a new leg.

[ubikvalis2]

"If you believe in evolution why has your science not come up with away to save everyone"

What does that even mean? I remember I had a neighbor who would give me sermons while I was watering my garden (he was a born again Christian) ... He would talk about how, in his past, he was into drugs and alcohol and then he "was saved" and no longer does drugs and alcohol ... But I wanted to tell him "I don't drink and I don't do drugs, and, unlike you, I don't smoke like a chimney. Doesn't that mean I'm more 'saved' than you?" -- But I was too polite to of course.

[ubikvalis2]

The good news is that this crazy fruitcake won't be strangling any more little girls.

[randalds]

Praise the Lord and pass the bullsh*it! Another near murder due to religious lunacy.

[willylou11]

Some of us believe in God and miracles for a reason. My own personal experience, when i was 5 years old, I was in the hosptial with pneumonia. As a child I was regularly in every winter witht this illness. The doctors had tried everything they could think of, but my condition only worsened. They had basically sat my mother down and gave her the "He may make it through the night, but the chances aren't good speech" and told her to be prepared for the worst. My mother sat next to my bed that night and prayed to GOD to heal me through her, to take my sickness away and give to her instead. The very next morning, my fever had broke, and my condition made a 100% turnaround. My mother became ill that very morning, and not a single one of you scientifically profound doctors could explain how it happened. I believe miracles, because without one 22 years ago, I would not be here to type this post.

[adkinskd]

A " very bizarre, very unusual and pretty horrific situation." But in this age of religious terrorism, are the events really so unusual? The deliberate creation and exploitation of horror or fear through illegal violence or threats of illegal violence to force somebody to do something against his or her own will for religious or political purposes is at least one definition of terrorism. To attract attention and generate publicity, terrorists will perpetrate dramatic and astonishing acts of violence to distress and otherwise influence not only their immediate audience, which includes their victims, but any other people who may be affected by the events through the media or other sources Terrorists will often use their own deaths to achieve their goal of disseminating information.
This particular exhibition and its 'high visibility' has garnered significant public attention. It's easy to understand why. The details of the events are as sensational and lurid as a suicide bombing and the epitome of fanaticism. In the absence of proof to confirm or contradict his claims, a presumptuous 49 year old grandfather declares a 3 year old child possessed by 'demons', and then himself seizes her, puts her in a headlock, squeezes her, chokes her, and otherwise exploits and takes advantage of her for the sake of his religion, putting her life at risk and ending his own in the process. And we who are privvy to the performance are shocked and awed by the spectacle.
Sound familiar?

[passerby2]

the grandfather must of been absent when they were going over exorcism techinques at the church. He's suppose to tie her to the bed not put her in a headlock. The headlock is only supposed to be used when her head starts to spin around 360 degrees.

[pt133]

This three year old has not reached the age of accountability according to the Bible. The demonic person in this situation is the grandfather. What a pity!! May God have mercy on his soul. Jesus said "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of God" Matt. 19-14

[swwils]

I am glad that the Police arrived because that child would have been dead,and probably never found for yrs.

[iceman_1960]

Francis Crick and James Dewey Watson,
co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule, did more to help their fellow men and women than all the mythologizing religious figures put together.

Crick and Watson were humanists and atheists.