Exorcism of Emily Rose

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2005-11-23 02:20am

The movie "Exorcism of Emily Rose" starts this week in germany. Some of you might know that the film is based on a real incident in germany 30 years ago. There was an article about the film & the incident in our local newspaper today. The author said that exorcism is on the rise again in the US. Is this true or bullshit? A member of the local clergy(they were involved in the real incident) tried to defend exorcism claiming that supernatural things exist.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-11-23 03:14am

I haven't heard about any cases of exorcisms being performed here in the States- not by actual clergy, anyways. Psycho parents chaining their own children in cages is different.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-11-23 03:27am

Is this based on the case in Germany where the girl starved to death during an exorcism?

...and a little Googling later, I find that yes it is.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-11-23 03:30am

I believe there was a much more recent fatal exorcism in one of the former Soviet states; there was a thread here about it but I'm too lazy to search.

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2005-11-23 03:46am

Darth Wong wrote:I believe there was a much more recent fatal exorcism in one of the former Soviet states; there was a thread here about it but I'm too lazy to search.

The roman catholic church still practices exorcism. The exorcism lessons at the vatican university are very popular. There is also a pretty famous exorcist living in the ukraine.

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2005-11-23 04:51am

Does it work?

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2005-11-23 05:03am

defanatic wrote:Does it work?

The catholic church thinks it does. I think it could "work" on someone who believes exorcism works.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-11-23 06:17am

The RCC still does exorcism regularly - the local abbey here has an exorcist on 24/7 stand-by. They've recently expanded their training to include psychology classes, so they can identify known psychological disorders and send them to a doctor rather then blame the behaviour on Satan.

mr friendly guy · Post by **mr friendly guy** » 2005-11-23 07:04am

It was based on a case in Germany. IIRC the girl was a schizophrenic, and the stupid priest just served to reinforced her delusion giving her excuse to act that way. After all it wasn't her fault. She was possessed by demons.

She starved to death and the stupid priest and her god damn parents were jailed. The Catholic Church later disavowed the exorcism, saying that the exorcising priest did it without the RCC's permission. After all, the case didn't fit the criteria of a "real" possession as there was no telekinesis involved (one of the criteria the RCC uses to distinguish possession from mental illness).

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2005-11-23 07:26am

mr friendly guy wrote: She starved to death and the stupid priest and her god damn parents were jailed.

They didn't go to jail. They got 6 months of parole. The bishop who allowed the exorcism got away unpunished AFAIK.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-11-23 08:49am

The principles of exorcism are still practiced widely among new agers and other religious groups - even aboriginal and asian religions. That is, the idea that there are evil spirits in the world and that they can be shooed out of people, places, and things. I've met more than a few ghost hunters who refused to enter 'haunted' places until they performed various silly rituals to rid the place of the bad spirits and only leave the (I presume) gentle ones they wanted to have meaningful spiritual contact with.

I just realized I could have saved myself a few minutes of typing by writing the word 'loons' and hitting reply, but there you go.

Maraxus · Post by **Maraxus** » 2005-11-23 10:16am

I've got a friend whose a Roman Catholic Priest on a mission in the Phillippines. One of his more bizzare stories is having to perform an exorcism on the body of a dead infant buried under one of his churchgoers houses. No one would enter the building until he actually performed the exorcism.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-11-23 10:59am

Um yes. Faith healers and exorcists are very popular here in the Philippines. Nutters, the lot of them.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-11-24 02:52am

Thunderfire wrote:The movie "Exorcism of Emily Rose" starts this week in germany.

Do yourself a favor and don't watch it. That piece of shit sucked ass

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2005-11-24 09:06am

The Protestants here in Singapore still do it.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2005-11-24 12:46pm

Darth Wong wrote:I believe there was a much more recent fatal exorcism in one of the former Soviet states; there was a thread here about it but I'm too lazy to search.

I believe you're referring to the exorcism that took place in Romania (which was a satellite state to the Soviet Union but never a Soviet state per se) during which a trainee nun died (IIRC, she was crucified).

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