Exorcism – Or Child Abuse? Spain Arrests Priest

Posted by | March 20, 2015 03:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Religion Top Stories


Hey – who says that engaging in a bizarre medieval rite can’t be both?

Newsweek details the entire sordid mess.

A Spanish priest and an exorcist have been charged with gender violence and causing injury and mistreatment after the exorcist performed repeated exorcisms on an anorexic teenage girl. A judge in Burgos has called for the arrest of exorcist Jesús Hernández Sahagún, the official exorcist of Valladolid, along with the girl’s priest, after she endured 13…

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

7 responses to Exorcism – Or Child Abuse? Spain Arrests Priest

  1. fahvel March 20th, 2015 at 03:28

    but aren’t these folks xians? where’s pat to stand up for devil removing saints like these?

    • Leannie March 20th, 2015 at 12:04

      Pat won’t stand up for them….they are the wrong kind of Christian

  2. Warman1138 March 20th, 2015 at 06:21

    Weird freaking people.

  3. Anomaly 100 March 20th, 2015 at 10:35

    Abuse.

  4. FatRat March 20th, 2015 at 13:42

    Is it Asmodeus or Anorexia? I thumbed through Tobin’s Spirit Guide and it said not to trust a bunch of kiddie touchers.
    http://i.imgur.com/Cjeu5F1.jpg

  5. bpollen March 20th, 2015 at 16:03

    I don’t care if he DOES have Tubular Bells as his theme music, this guy SUCKS as an exorcist. At this rate, 200 exorcisms would mean he has only had 15 demon infestations to work with.

    One thing that surprises me is that they haven’t apparently thought of combining exorcism and conversion-therapy – “Begone, Oscar Wilde! Out, O demon Tennessee Williams. I cast you into perdition, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot!”

  6. Jake March 20th, 2015 at 23:53

    Jesus Christ was right when he said all members of the Catholic and every other Church should be violently exterminated. I think that’s what the bible says isn’t it?

    TAX the CHURCHES!

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