Teenage woman crucified...

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...as part of a 'week long exorcism carried out by her boyfriend and friends'

A teenager thought to be possessed by the devil was subjected to a violent crucifixion-style exorcism by four religious extremists, a court in France heard today (Monday).
Three men and a woman belonging to the Seventh Day Adventist Church are accused of kidnapping, and acts of torture and barbarism against the 19-year-old.
The young woman, referred to solely by the name Antoinette, was barely alive when police found her in a flat in a housing estate in the Paris suburb of Grigny.
Her tormentors are accused of tying her up like Jesus on the cross, and keeping Antoinette in the same position for seven days during 2011.
They believed that this would exorcise her from her sins, and get rid of the devil inside her.
In the meantime Antoinette was regularly beaten, and only allowed small amounts of cooking oil and water so as to stay alive.
Eric Deron, the teenager’s former boyfriend and the defendant who is thought to have instigated the assault, believed he was on a divine mission, Essonne Assizes, near Paris, heard.
Deron is on trial along with his mother, Lise-Michelle Babin, and two men called Philippe Grego and Lionel Fremor, all from the French Caribbean.
According to statements read out in court, Deron was convinced his girlfriend was possessed because ‘she leapt on him’ while shouting incomprehensibly.
She had met her alleged assailants in 2008, through the Seventh Day Adventists, an America-based Protestant church which has millions of followers throughout the world.
Jacques Bourdais, barrister for the defendants, told French news agency AFP: ‘To them, she was possessed, that is why they did not call a doctor.
'You call a doctor when someone is sick, when someone is possessed you exorcise them.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

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Ain't religion fun.

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She leapt on him whilst shouting incomprehensively? She just had the painters in. We can't crucify all women.

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Driver claims he put alcohol in his ears to determine how Jesus restored hearing...

London [ON] Free Press ^ |

A Sarnia man refuted his alcohol breath readings in court, claiming the readings woud have been elevated after he put alcohol in his ears to test a Jesus theory.
Robert D. Bourque, 55, was convicted following his trial in Sarnia court of driving while his blood-alcohol level exceeded the legal limit. He was fined $1,000.
On Nov. 10, 2012, at 8 p.m. an OPP officer stopped Bourque's vehicle was because the taillights were out.
Breath tests showed Bourque's blood-alcohol level was one and a quarter times the legal limit.
Bourque, who represented himself, testified he had put alcohol in his ears as part of an experiment to determine how Jesus restored the hearing of deaf people.
Alcohol from his ears got into his throat and that increased the breath-test results, Bourque argued.
Bourque also testified he had consumed three beers at a pizza restaurant before being stopped and had one beer earlier in the day.
Justice R.G. Hunter said there was no expert evidence regarding the breath-test machine's accuracy. Hunter said he found the readings to be accurate and convicted Bourque.
A $1,400 fine was requested by assistant Crown attorney Krista Leszczynski based Bourque’s previous, although dated, drinking-and-driving conviction.
A formal notice that would have prompted a mandatory jail sentence had not filed with the court due to the age of the conviction.
A $1,000 fine was imposed by Hunter along with a one-year driving ban.
During his submissions Bourque said his constitutional rights were violated due to release conditions imposed by the officer, including a driving ban until the court case ended.
The officer testified the condition was imposed by the direction of the Crown.
Hunter said such bans are "totally wrong" and fly in the face of the presumption of innocence.
Bourque had been charged with violating the ban but there were no court proceedings on that charge.

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Alien Life on Fourth Avenue?
Tucson Weekly ^ |

Philip Franchine of The Green Valley News notes that property on and near downtown's Fourth Avenue is getting snatched up by a religious group with UFO tenets—and that has been accused of being a cult:
Why all this activity in Tucson?
“We fully intend to take this message to the entire world,” Lilly said. “While Tumacacori is great for agriculture, Tucson has a large student population and they need a society like we have — that is drug-free, alcohol-free and environmentally conscious.”
Global Community has attracted young people from around the world who seek to learn sustainable farming and ranching techniques, describing itself in a colorful brochure as “a living agricultural/all-volunteer community sharing its resources and the harvest of the land purchased and worked together...”
But the group has drawn plenty of criticism from former members and at least one international cult expert.
The Alliance believes that messengers from space delivered a revelation known as The Urantia Book, which explains the nature of God, creation and man’s purpose. They believe Gabriel has re-established contact with the space beings and will one day reign after a catastrophic war.
Cult expert Rick Ross, who tracks religious groups through his Rick A. Ross Institute, told The Arizona Republic in 2009 that the Alliance is “a personality-driven group. This (Gabriel) is a guy who has a lot of money, and it’s been accumulated through the surrender of assets.”
Ex-followers said members are forced to give up their legal names and shun family outside the group when they join. They said in a 1998 Dateline NBC program that the organization took control of all aspects of their lives, including finances, marriage and divorce. Since then, many more have come forward with similar stories.
“We are a non-profit and rely on the generosity of others,” Lilly told the Green Valley News when asked how the group paid for the buildings. “Members of the community bring their resources. Some have much, some have little. We have been the recipients of grants and receive donations from various supporters.”

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...as part of a 'week long exorcism carried out by her boyfriend and friends'

A teenager thought to be possessed by the devil was subjected to a violent crucifixion-style exorcism by four religious extremists, a court in France heard today (Monday).
Three men and a woman belonging to the Seventh Day Adventist Church are accused of kidnapping, and acts of torture and barbarism against the 19-year-old.
The young woman, referred to solely by the name Antoinette, was barely alive when police found her in a flat in a housing estate in the Paris suburb of Grigny.
Her tormentors are accused of tying her up like Jesus on the cross, and keeping Antoinette in the same position for seven days during 2011.
They believed that this would exorcise her from her sins, and get rid of the devil inside her.
In the meantime Antoinette was regularly beaten, and only allowed small amounts of cooking oil and water so as to stay alive.
Eric Deron, the teenager’s former boyfriend and the defendant who is thought to have instigated the assault, believed he was on a divine mission, Essonne Assizes, near Paris, heard.
Deron is on trial along with his mother, Lise-Michelle Babin, and two men called Philippe Grego and Lionel Fremor, all from the French Caribbean.
According to statements read out in court, Deron was convinced his girlfriend was possessed because ‘she leapt on him’ while shouting incomprehensibly.
She had met her alleged assailants in 2008, through the Seventh Day Adventists, an America-based Protestant church which has millions of followers throughout the world.
Jacques Bourdais, barrister for the defendants, told French news agency AFP: ‘To them, she was possessed, that is why they did not call a doctor.
'You call a doctor when someone is sick, when someone is possessed you exorcise them.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

"I need to torture you so I can cure you of the sins that you were originally born with" a true testament to the faith. Does anyone stop and remember that this religion was founded and quite popular in Rome around the same time one of the emperors ordered the ocean to 40 lashings to punish the water god?