Getting some exorcise
November 21st 2010 01:34
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Some people just don't want to believe what's in front of their eyes. Why do so many have so little faith?
Take the news from Trinidad this week. Seventeen high school girls fell ill simultaneously, then started rolling on the ground and talking in strange tongues.
The Moruga Composite School students appeared to suffer nausea and headaches. Two tried to throw themselves over a railing and had to be restrained. Others fell into a semi-conscious state, eyes rolling and limbs out of control.
Alarmed school administrators called in Roman Catholic priests and pastors from nearby churches, who showered the students with holy water and said prayers. The exorcism seemed to work. Several of the girls were taken to hospital suffering grazes and bruises, but all were later released and full recoveries were made.
They were lucky. One teacher said the school was built on top of a cemetery. And a male student told the local newspaper that he had communicated with a "devil" who had possessed one of girls. "I asked the Devil what he wanted with the girls and the voice said he wanted a life," the boy said.
Despite all this evidence of evil visitation, however, some local residents are claiming the whole thing was a hoax. One said there is no cemetery under the school. Another said the whole thing had been arranged by clergy to drum up publicity for the church. Even local municipal administrators showed themselves on the side of the doubters, claiming there was "nothing in the environment to trigger the event".
It's shocking that people can doubt events just because they involve things we don't easily understand. And the fact that the whole episode was just like a scene in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was, of course, pure coincidence.
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