e-xorcism

A so-called evangelist tries to cast a demon out of a friend on Facebook.

The blog "Jesus Needs New PR" shows how Joseph Huffman tries to exorcise the demon from Marrissa Johnson who apparently disagreed with Huffman about something.

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We see this as a handy metaphor for (1) what's wrong civil discourse in America, (2) what's wrong with religion, and (3) what's wrong with technology. A rare hat-trick.

Posted by Andrew Gerns on July 9, 2010 8:00 PM | |
Comments (4)

"Evangalist"? Really now! One wishes people would learn to spell the word before presuming to preach the word. Proper spelling, grammar and punctuation (so glaringly absent in the snippet above) go along a way to instilling confidence in the intelligence behind the case the presenter is trying to make. Their neglect has the exact opposite effect.

Gregory Orloff

Posted by Gregory [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 9, 2010 8:09 PM

But that is the way demons are exorcised, Gregory, in run on sentences with absolutely no punctuation, bad grammar, and many misspellings of words. Have I abused the use of the comma here? I'm sure there is a comma demon in me.

Posted by Susan Hedges [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 9, 2010 9:22 PM

I think this is really really scary. Maybe one of the reasons we and other mainstream Christian churches seem not to be doing so well these days is that we are too nice about junk like this. (It's possible that there really is some demonic possession going on here, but it isn't Ms. Johnson who is possessed.

John 11:35.

Posted by Bill Moorhead [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 9, 2010 10:48 PM

Susan, the dreaded "serial comma" is second only to the evil of the "cereal killer" --- the person who consumes the last bowl without replacing the box. ;-)

Actually, this run-on style is also typical of a school of preaching much allied with a mindset that practices evangelical exorcism.

Posted by tobias haller [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 10, 2010 10:48 AM

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