The country where exorcisms are on the rise

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25032305

The country where exorcisms are on the rise

Does God exist? Does the Devil exist? The Catholic church believes they both do - and some priests say they are currently having an immense battle in Mexico.

To some it may seem extraordinary, but priests say the country is under attack by Satan, and that more exorcists are needed to fight him.

This attack, they say, is showing itself in the gruesome drug-related violence, including human sacrifice, that has engulfed the country since 2006.

According to the latest official figures available, at least 70,000 people have died in this period, including gunmen, members of the security forces, and many innocent civilians.

But, the priests say, it's not just the numbers. The savagery also stands out.

In recent years it has not been uncommon in many parts of Mexico for children to find dismembered bodies on the streets on their way to school. Or for commuters on busy roads to drive past bridges with severely tortured corpses hanging from them. Scenes from hell.

"We believe that behind all these big and structural evils there is a dark agent and his name is The Demon. That is why the Lord wants to have here a ministry of exorcism and liberation, for the fight against the Devil," says Father Carlos Triana, a priest, and an exorcist, in Mexico City.

(continued, there's a certain safety in prayer when confronting drug cartels?)

[Jason]

Clearly Mexico will need to militarize and marshal it's defense forces to protect its citizens from civil unrest. I expect Canada will have no need. Human sacrifice simply isn't done here.

[JimC]

Fuckwits.

[Trinity]

Unless these exorcists have a fuck off arsenal of weapons and are trained in high level combat, I see a bit of a massacre ahead. Maybe they've developed bibles with hidden incendiaries? Holy water that's actually acid or hypnosis abilities dissguised as latin-speak?

[cronus]

The more drugs cartels pay the Bishops off the more local priests will deal with imaginary phantoms rather than confronting local people involved in the drugs trade.

[Audley Strange]

"Since 2006" my arse. Place has been fucking nuts since the century at the latest. A lot of those Cartel dudes are actual Satanic Christians, in that they believe in the whole Catholic bollocks, but have went for the adversary rather than get all guilt ridden like the Mafia types. Dark dark business.

[FBM]

Fuckwits.

Claro que si. Son locos, sin dudo.

[Svartalf]

Clearly Mexico will need to militarize and marshal it's defense forces to protect its citizens from civil unrest. I expect Canada will have no need. Human sacrifice simply isn't done here.

No Aztec traditions in Canada? paint me surprised