"Thanks to the Internet, you can live pretty much your whole life without ever leaving your couch. Now, with little more than a laptop and webcam, you can even get your inner demons expelled.
Take Bob Larson. The Arizona-based evangelical Christian, who claims to have performed over 20,000 exorcisms throughout his 40-year career, is something of a Web entrepreneur, branching his demon-fighting business to video-chat services like Skype. Larson's work was recently cast into the spotlight thanks to an Anderson Cooper 360 special, which followed the exorcist as he virtually expelled a spirit from a client from Norway.
Of course, Larson's peers have trouble coming to grip with this 21st century exorcism. Religious leaders question the effectiveness of Skype exorcisms, claiming the exorcist can't control a possessed person's actions, which in turn makes the whole ceremony ineffective."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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Take Bob Larson. The Arizona-based evangelical Christian, who claims to have performed over 20,000 exorcisms throughout his 40-year career, is something of a Web entrepreneur, branching his demon-fighting business to video-chat services like Skype. Larson's work was recently cast into the spotlight thanks to an Anderson Cooper 360 special, which followed the exorcist as he virtually expelled a spirit from a client from Norway.
Of course, Larson's peers have trouble coming to grip with this 21st century exorcism. Religious leaders question the effectiveness of Skype exorcisms, claiming the exorcist can't control a possessed person's actions, which in turn makes the whole ceremony ineffective."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Elizabeth Robinson / The Daily Dot:
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