Teen Exorcism Squad: Three Girls Claim Ability To Cast Out Demons

[zappaman]

"My first exorcism was when I was 13," said 17-year-old Brynne on The Anderson Cooper Show yesterday. Brynne has allegedly cast out demons from dozens of people. Along with 17-year-old Tess and 20-year-old Savannah, she claims to have the ability to identify and expel evil.

Brynne is the daughter of Texas preacher Reverend Bob Larsen, a well-known spiritual guide who claims to have cast out over 15,000 demons over the course of his career. Brynne claims to have performed her first exorcism at a church in Africa, under her father's watch, at the age of 13. The three girls are Larsen's newest apprentices -- he gives them hours of training each week and insists that the girls have exorcised dozens of people already.

"One of the tell-tale signs of demonic possession that Hollywood gets right is the eyes," Tess told Anderson Cooper. "The pupils dilate sporadically... You look in someone's eyes, and after the [exorcism] training, you can see the evil."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/teen-exorcism-squad-three_n_1313134.html

[Lint Head]

1. Bob Larsen is a tool. I used to listen to his radio show for grins and giggles.

[zappaman]

3. I loved his books about backwards masking in rock music

Really funny stuff!

[saras]

18. Folks I knew used to call his radio show up and tape the results - pretty funny

They eventually pushed him off the deep end, I think by "committing suicide" on-air, and he had to cut WAY back on letting callers onto his show. They were religious studies people, so pretty good at it, and they'd string him along pretty far before going surrealist on him.

http://www.ebeneezer.net/doctrine/blm/index.html

Someone commented last year on the phenomenon...

Custador says:

A old, male Christian preacher finding excuses to hang around teenage girls flicking holy-water on their tee-shirts and dribbling candle-wax on them… There’s nothing at all creepy about that, right?

[Confusious]

2. 15th century geek squad?

They're a little late. Most people moved on to the "enlightenment" and gave up believing in witches and demons a while ago.

( At least I hope most people did. USA! USA! we're stupid!! YEAY!)

[xfundy]

4. Going into the family business.

Ripping off the stupid and vulnerable. The fools and their money who are soon parted.

Sometimes I wish there was a hell for these assholes to burn in.

[Sparkly]

5. I'll bet they're fun at parties.

[Enrique]

6. and Anderson is helping them sell their snake oil why exactly?

this stuff belongs on the Christian scam channels.

[HopeHoops]

7. Yeah, and that's how the Salem witch trials started.

[JoePhilly]

8. Those 3 are clearly possessed.

[bongbong]

9. The eyes

I know what he's talking about. Every single repig I know has that look in their eyes.

[onehandle]

10. I had a 13-year-old girlfriend in my youth that summoned demons.

True story.

[cleanhippie]

11. Now now, we must respect peoples deeply held relgious beliefs.

[zappaman]

12. No respect...acknowledgement

Patton Oswalt nails it.

[Odin2005]

13. They need a psychiatrist, ASAP.

[d_r]

14. heck, I can do it too

[Shadowflash]

15. P.T. Barnum was a wise, wise man

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Witchcraft murder: Couple guilty of Kristy Bamu killing

A couple have been found guilty of murdering a teenager they had accused of using witchcraft.

Eric Bikubi, 28, and Magalie Bamu, aged 29, from Newham, east London, had denied killing Bamu's 15-year-old brother Kristy.

Kristy drowned in a bath on Christmas Day in 2010, during torture to produce exorcism, an Old Bailey jury heard.

Bikubi had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but the prosecution rejected his plea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17040111

'Exorcism' is largely an excuse for asserting control, often violently, over people who don't conform to your rules.

[marasinghe]

17. they could find work in Bobby Jindall juggernaut, when it comes out the closet in campaign 2020.

if Satan exists, i'd pay money to see him on PPV,
coming up against the entire bunch of snake oil sellers -
who populate the religious shopping network, after dark on the Sabbath.