Furious Community Slams Pastor Who Said Autism Is "Demonic" - Waldorf Nation

[TexasTowelie]

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"On Wednesday night, Pastor Rick Morrow of Beulah Church in Richland, Missouri said that autism was caused by the devil and prayers alone could heal the developmental disability."

[Permanut]

1. Disgusting; should lose his position, his credentials and his career.

[ret5hd]

2. Didn't realize ignorance required credentials.

[Permanut]

3. True..

He apparently holds a position of pastor, but that doesn't seem to require any legitimate credentials, e.g., Joel Osteen.

[Mopar151]

4. Mail order minister.

Universal Life Church back in the day.

[keithbvadu2]

5. So, Pastor Rick. prove God's healing power. Pray the demons/affliction away.

So, Pastor Rick. prove God's healing power. Pray the demons/affliction away.

God accepts prayer jn someone else's name.

[wnylib]

6. When I was in high school I dated a guy who told me that

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he sometimes had fainting spells. He also got really bad migraine headaches.

One day we were visiting someone in the hospital when he fell to the floor and went into a grand mal seizure.

A couple nurses rushed over to monitor him. He had two more seizures within minutes of each other. As he was coming out of the 3rd one, an orderly put him on a guerney and wheeled him to the ER. When that seizure stopped, he stabilized. The doctor asked what seizure meds he took but he insisted that he just had fainting spells, not seizures. The doctor scheduled him to come back for tests in a few days, but he skipped the appointment.

After dinner with his family, I told his mother about it, hoping she would talk him into rescheding the tests. She pursed her lips and said that doctors couldn't help him because it was a spiritual matter. His first "fainting spell" had happened in church when he was 9 years old, receiving communion. So, it was a demonic possession attempt to take him away from the faith. Only prayers could help.

They were not Evangelicals. They were fanatical Catholics. His family had told him that seeing a doctor would make it worse.

I could not believe that any one in modern times would believe such a thing. I had Catholic friends and neighbors who didn't. But his family believed a superstition that when an illness manifests in church, preventing someone from receiving a sacrament or from staying during the service, it meant that a demon was trying to possess the victim and was reacting to the sacred environment.