Should exorcism be outlawed?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes. It is an incredibly useless and sometimes harmful procedure often taken when legitimate medical treatment is sometimes needed.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm thinking of things like the death of that girl in Milwaukee who was being "exorcised" at some fundie Assembly of God church when she was really epileptic and was having a seizure.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No serious doctor would ever participate in a quack joke ritual like this one. Doctors should only deal with science, not fairy tales.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes I am a Christian but I do not believe in demonic possession.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Plenty of things with legitimate medical explanations today were mistaken for demonic possession all the time in the past. Besides that's a hell of a lot of supposed exorcisms considering how supposedly rare it is if we believe the Catholic Church.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No the observers were.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am very far from a biblical literalist. Have you ever seen me agree with jmfcst?