Teen exorcists fight Harry Potter

Three young women, who look like they are straight out of some hip teenage television show, have set out to rescue London's teenagers from evil forces. Brynne Larson, 18, and sisters Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, 18 and 21, from Arizona, are not the idea of a Hollywood scriptwriter but "real" exorcists on a mission. They believe that every country "has a specific kind of demon" and Britain is a hotbed for "witchcraft" because of the popularity of J K Rowling's Harry Potter books.

"It has been centuries in the making, but I believe it came to a pinnacle with the Harry Potter books," Savannah Scherkenback says in the trailer to BBC documentary Teen Exorcists.

"The spells you are reading about are not made up," her sister added.

"They are real and come from witchcraft."

Larson said: "Harry is using this magic for good, so here we have the dangerous idea that you can use this magic for good or bad, whereas in reality all magic is bad because you're getting your power from Satan."

The girls, who all have black belts in karate, have vowed never to read the Harry Potter novels and hope to help British teenagers to rid themselves of "inviting Satan to possess them by reciting the spells in the Harry Potter books" as well as "sexually transmitted demons". British film-maker Dan Murdoch has spent six months with the trio for the documentary. He followed them to Ukraine and then to London, where they held an exorcism meeting under the guidance of Larson's father (and their trainer), the Rev Bob Larson, who says he has performed more than 15,000 exorcisms. While he sees himself as a freedom fighter for God, sceptics say that he is preying on the vulnerable in a bid to sell his books, DVDs and "crosses of deliverance". He does not see anything wrong in demanding money for his services.

"Money and motives; any time someone is in God's work it always comes up," he said.

"People will pay thousands of dollars to go to drug rehab or to pay psychiatrists, but there's this idea that spirituality needs to be for free.

"The average megachurch pastor in America; it's not uncommon for them to make up to $1 million a year. Well, I can assure you we are nowhere near that."

According to Larson almost half of the population is ruled by a demon.

Discussing his documentary, Murdoch said he had doubts about the team's demon-smiting mission.

"I don't believe in exorcisms after doing the documentary but I do believe in the power of belief after what I've seen," he said.

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/9157796/Teen-exorcists-fight-Harry-Potter

I don't know if I should laugh or weep -__-

Know what...whatever

cuz I gave up a while ago

My exact feelings.

This saddens me. Although they are pretty.

OMG! Harry Potter is a devil-worshiper because he uses Magic!

I kind of see some logic to that but what about Gandalf, Dr. Fate, Zatanna, and all the other people who use magic? Does that make them evil too?

My thoughts on this is that magic is evil, but a book about a young wizard is not evil.

-$NG

my shotgun shells will be meeting new people.

I've heard people say Pokemon is demonic. What a bunch of baloney.

SMH.

And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids and their exorcisms!!

Yep because awknowledging magic is real will totally get kids to not read about and want to preform magic. Hell, if I was 8 years old and someone convinced me that magic was real in trying to get me to accept Jesus, I would throw out their bible and go pick up a Necronomicon.

You'd think at 18-21, they would realize that the movies like The Exorcist and Paranormal Activity are fiction. If they want to help people so much, there are plenty of starving and sick people all around the world that can use a little cherity.

Wow.. rowling is getting free advertise.. Go, harry, go!

:D

WA HAH !

If their greatest concern is running into Harry Potter, I can't wait for them to run into the real life Constantines... or Alan Moore :D

They would have been wasted on them. You need to call upon the Powers of the Void.

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My thoughts:

But seriously this is retarded!

I was never a Potterhead.

Do they really need to come to the UK.. god, we managed to block Westboro, can't we just do the same here?

.........

I thought the whole hysteria about Harry Potter books being 'evil' died out in the early 2000s.

Then again, maybe they're just in it for the money.

Whatever the case, stupidity abounds.

Edit: That one girl is fine, though.

...Sexually transmitted demons? Really?

They vowed never to read the books...that says it all. The irony is that many people like these usually end up going off the rails and become their own worst nightmares. I wait patiently. But if there is a God (I force no opinion) he must be gutted he gets the scary dumb ones.

There is no honor in this.

Religious brainwashing at its worst. I wish I could say that its an isolated incident, but its not.

That makes it sadder somehow.

I...eh...
This reeks of the misuse of the word of God.

Religious brainwashing and ignorance at its finest. I've seen one of the documentaries on these group of dull minded girls. Not only do they brainwash credulously minded people who think they're possessed by demons and are flawed on some way but they too have been brainwashed by their crack headed father with his implausible beliefs. It's the evidence of what religious indoctrination can do to people.

Though the one in the middle is quite good looking IMO.

The spells are real? Hooray! Lumos! *turns on flashlight*

Whatever gets rid of Harry Potter is fine by me. Glad to see these girls pursuing purity rather than experimenting with drugs.

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Pursing purity? Really? Oh and how do you know they aren't experimenting with drugs either?

Really ? I mean, really ? God religion sucks.

@mrdecepticonleader:

Innocent until proven guilty.

@godtriggerhulk: They're either neck deep in drugs or breathtakingly stupid. Also, pursuing purity isn't what I would call it.

Lol.

Hey we have to watch our words, I mean they are ``black belts`` in Karate right? If they aren't exorcising (exercising?) our demons they will be beating us up for defending Satan right?

@web_flotsam:

What would you call an effort to defeat the Devil?

@godtriggerhulk: Idiotic.

Absolutely idiotic considering that they're targeting a children's book series while claiming the magic within it is real, while also somehow making money off it.

@web_flotsam:

They do more than that, they actively exorcise people. If you click on the link in the article it shows a video with them performing an exorcism. The people they're helping get pretty wild, it's not an easy job.

Are you a troll? Am I being trolled?

I don't know why but for some reason I think these girls don't believe in any of this, or at least not all of it. And they are doing this for publicity and fame.

@web_flotsam:

Mild teasing at worst.

*what does it say about our society that mild autocorrected to milf?

@godtriggerhulk: So I don't have to explain how the people aren't really possessed and should have gotten therapy instead of an exorcism?

@web_flotsam:

Just for funsies why don't you. I feel like we reject many things out of hand without looking at them for ourselves. Inquiry means considering things even when others say the debate is over.

@godtriggerhulk: You can see them playing those people like cards in the videos. They convince people who are either mentally ill that their problems are demons. They're not even very good actors, and the fact that they refuse to read what they're against makes me wonder how they know these spells are real if they can't possibly know what they are.

@web_flotsam:

Perhaps their "bad acting" can be attributed to them not acting?

I agree on the Harry Potter front they're misinformed, people don't imitate the spells.

It's the exorcisms that have me intrigued. Perhaps on the show a customer will testify as to whether or not the ceremony was useful.