From the "You're Fucking Kidding Me" Files

Via RichardDawkins.net

I don't know why on earth I'd have found this surprising.

Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe

Umm, what? Sorry, I must have accidentally read the headline with the wrong glasses. You know the ones from the 14th century.

Jeebus, what the hell is wrong with people? I half expect this stuff from Pope Benedict and his various cardinals; Pope Benny and his Jets seem pretty credulous from the get go but how do you get others to follow it?

Without Catholicism how could you get people to say something this mindbogglingly stupid?

"My remedy is based on spiritual means, which cannot be replaced by any pharmaceutical remedies," said Trojanowski, the priest who is overseeing plans for the new exorcism center. "I do not stop at the level of just treating symptoms. I'm very much interested in the soul of a person. As a priest, I keep asking questions a doctor will never ask."

Sure. What the fuck? Why not?

How about this?

Jankowski cited the case of a woman who asked for a divorce days after renewing her wedding vows as part of a marriage counseling program. What was suspicious, he said, was how the wife suddenly developed a passionate hatred for her husband.
"According to what I could perceive, the devil was present and acting in an obvious way," he said. "How else can you explain how a wife, in the space of a couple of weeks, could come to hate her own husband, a man who is a good person?"
Jankowski said that an archbishop granted him the authority last October to perform exorcisms and that he's been busy ever since. As for the afflicted wife? "We're still working with her," he said.

I've got a bit of a diagnosis: Fucked someone else. That would explain all the symptoms. Except maybe the bit about being a good person that the priest mentioned. Adapted diagnosis: Fucked someone else but Jankowski didn't hear about it. Now we've covered all the symptoms.

Here's a possible treatment.