Exorcist weighs in on 'vampire' murder in Mexico

[trotsky]

Take a moment and read that headline again before reading this story.

A guy whose job it is to "cast out demons" from people is calling shenanigans on a vampire initiation rite.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/exorcist-weighs-in-on-vampire-murder-in-mexico-89631/

The murder of a 24-year-old man in Chihuahua, Mexico last month is being considered by authorities as a “possible satanic ritual” designed to transform the victim into a vampire.

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Speaking to CNA, noted exorcist and demonology expert Father José Antonio Fortea warned that “the vampire fad is something that's very close to Satanism.”

This fad, he said, “is not just a taste for darkness, but rather a taste for evil, an aesthetic connected to an entire way of looking at life.”

“Vampire-ism totally amounts to devil worship,” he said.

[cleanhippie]

1. What I find funny is how believers think others beliefs are absurd

But their beliefs are perfectly normal.

[trotsky]

2. But the idea that you could kill someone and he'll come back to life, I mean, that's just nuts!

Ask a Catholic priest!

[struggle4progress]

3. Youth in Mexico kill a friend to turn him into a vampire

THEY ARE PART OF A SECT CALLED 'CHILDREN OF BAPHOMET'
The ritual took place at an Internet cafe in the state of Chiuahua
BY EL UNIVERSAL - Updated March 5, 2016 at: 7:49 pm

... The Chihuahua State Attorney reported the arrest of Omar Sanchez Garcia, 25, alias "The Osiris"; Gustavo Adolfo Dorantes Dorantes, 18, and Iveth Nayeli Lopez Hernandez, 18, who strangled Edwin Miguel Juarez Palma, 24, in an alleged hazing in a demonic cult ...

... the leader of the sect, who is a fugitive, was the one who gave the order to kill him ... The crime occurred late Tuesday in an Internet cafe called Freak Shop.

The authorities spotted traces of the victim's blood inside the bathroom. Apparently, the ritual was inspired by a book of satanic cults, but after failing to "revive" his friend, he decided to stage it as an act of organized crime, so they wrapped the body in black bag and tied with tape, leaving him lying on a sidewalk ...

http://www.nacion.com/mundo/norteamerica/Jovenes-Mexico-persona-convertirla-vampiro_0_1546645400.html

[cleanhippie]

4. Just goes to show how belief in absurd things can drive people to absurd actions.

[struggle4progress]

5. Maybe it shows that if you lie to somebody, that you'll let them join your little club,

when your real intent is to kill them, then people should be skeptical about other things you say, too

[Orrex]

6. SCIENCE!