Thu 8 Oct 2009
College R.A. Removed From Post After Performing So-Called ‘Exorcism’
A resident hall adviser at a small Christian school was removed from his position for performing what he said was an “exorcism” on a fellow student he decided was possessed by the devil.
Nathan Mallory, a junior at Berry College in Georgia, was hosting a Bible study in his dorm room on Sept. 21 when he noticed a female student behaving oddly, according to school newspaper the Viking Fusion.
The paper said the unidentified woman — who has since transferred to another school — was repeating the word “no” as the other students around her sang hymns.
Mallory decided her behavior was a sign of demonic possession and began to pray with her, he wrote in an e-mail sent to his dorm residents.
“That’s when it showed itself,” he said in the e-mail, which was obtained by the Fusion. “Her face changed right in front of me, and the most evil, hideous grin came on her face, and her eyes seemed to turn red.”
The R.A. said he “prayed the Holy Spirit would take over, and he did.”
Berry College, however, criticized Mallory’s actions. Dean of Students Debbie Heida said a school campus is an inappropriate place for an exorcism and removed him from his R.A. post.
Mallory said he didn’t touch or restrain the woman during the ritual, which he deemed a success. He said he’d do things differently next time around and warned others to follow suit.
“You cannot go around looking to fight Satan head-on like that,” he said. “If the Holy Spirit is not in control of the situation, you better be physically prepared to try to survive something.”
Source: Fox News
I am shocked this type of thinking is alive and well in a place of higher learning and then I realized it was a ‘Christian’ University and it all made sense.
Berry College is a comprehensive liberal-arts college with Christian values. The college furthers our students’ intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth; proffers lessons that are gained from worthwhile work done well; and challenges them to devote their learning to community and civic betterment. Berry emphasizes an educational program committed to high academic standards, values based on Christian principles, practical work experience and community service in a distinctive environment of natural beauty. It is Berry’s goal to make an excellent private liberal-arts education accessible to talented students from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds.
Mental illness knows no socio-economic boundaries, nor does it discriminate against the educated. Religion is a form of mental illness and when you are dealing with the mentally ill a spontaneous exorcism by one of the ill shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Definition:
Mental Illness
n.
Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g., schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) are major mental illnesses characterized by severe symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and an inability to evaluate reality in an objective manner.
Definition:
Religious Extremists
ex·trem·ist (ĭk-strē’mĭst)
n.
One who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in religion.
ex·trem’ism n., ex·trem’ist adj.
I can not believe this type of party is tolerated by the ‘Christian’ students at Berry what with their alchoholic beverages, loud music and the devil’s dancing. The preacher in Footloose would not be pleased, no not at all.
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