{"id":41332,"date":"2013-12-01T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_drug_wars_in_mexico_fuel_exorcism_craze\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T23:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:00:36","slug":"london_times_drug_wars_in_mexico_fuel_exorcism_craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41332","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Drug wars in Mexico fuel exorcism craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s deadly drugs war is not just a question of supply and demand but a symptom of the rise of Satan, according to some Catholic leaders. With the death toll at about 80,000 and counting, the number of exorcisms is rising.<\/p>\n<p>Father Carlos Triana, an exorcist in Mexico City, said: \u201cWe believe that behind all these big and structural evils there is a dark agent and his name is The Demon. As much as we believe that the Devil was behind Adolf Hitler, possessing and directing him, we also believe that he [the Devil] is here behind the drug cartels.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Exorcisms and spiritual cleansings are common in Mexico, a superstitious country where Catholicism overlaid the religious beliefs of its indigenous inhabitants, including the Aztecs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/americas\/article3936340.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s deadly drugs war is not just a question of supply and demand but a symptom of the rise of Satan, according to some Catholic leaders. With the death toll at about 80,000 and counting, the number of exorcisms is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41332\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,175,99,168,114,197,154,177,578,108,364,165,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-mexico","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-policefire","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theodicy","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}