[granville1]

Yeah, this brand of fundy sees Satan behind every rock. Far from utilizing the Catholic Church’s stringent criteria for making a _prudent judgment_ about possession, Larson and crew are so hopelessly uncritical that they see as “demonic” everything from nervous habits, drinking/drug/sex problems, the type of TV, movies, books that one watches and reads, etc., as “Satanic”. They employ circular reasoning, e.g., “I know he was possessed because he looked at me in a way that was… Satanic!” They magnify normal character flaws into direct, literal “possession”. Then they aggravate the symptoms by telling the person that s/he is possessed, and by subjecting their victim to “exorcism”.

The pity is that the great unwashed, uncritical American public will probably tune into the program and think they’re getting something worthwhile, something that has documentary verisimilitude. Our ignorant times only encourage Bob Larson and crew to flourish in the soil of Unreason.