Violent Exorcism Attempted

Stories like this leave everyone feeling sick to their stomach (I hope).  Apparently a man in Indiana believed he could cure autism with an exorcism.  He “forced the boy down, punched him in the face several times, put his fingers in the boy’s throat, causing him to vomit.”  The things done in the name of religion.

At the same time this criminal beat and raped a 77-year old woman, while claiming  “there is no decency. There is no God.”

Neither of them are good representatives of their affiliations.

I’ll end with a quote from Steven Weinberg (the Nobel laureate) who said “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”