Following up from the Number of exorcisms on the rise on Australia’s Gold Coast blog entry, I found this article:
One priest, who asked not to be named, said he was carrying out at least one exorcism a fortnight.
“There has been a recruitment of pagan practices, and it’s sheer poison.”
His claim has provoked an angry reponse from the Pagan Awareness Network (PAN), an association representing wiccans, pagans, and other followers of nature-based faiths.
“A pagan ritual is no more dangerous than going to a church, a temple, or a mosque,” says PAN president David Garland.
“The Catholic Church is once again trying to create a moral panic about devil-worship and the occult. This kind of fear-mongering belongs in the Middle Ages, not in the 21st century.
Full Article: Exorcisms `more dangerous than Pagan beliefs’
Reading through some of the comments displayed with this article, I was pleasantly surprised to see the positive attitudes from Pagan participants.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackas an E- christian of 13yrs I have no place for the blife of so called exersism this type of stuff should be called what it is, the attempts by the church to terrify the general public and to attemp to persecut and undermine our spiritual belifes. The question is what avasive action are we going to take against such an attack?
That was suposed to be ex christian sorry !!!
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