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- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -41/+525Fox News once again asking the tough questions! I look forward to their investigative report on wiji boards and spooky campfire stories.
- Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -70/+326Of course not...there is no such thing.
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -27/+272@banderbe: The second greatest trick was the invent the devil to blame for all of our misdeeds.
Why can't someone just be crazy? Have a mental problem? Be just an evil person - why do we have to invoke a supernatural being for someone just being an evil little *****?
I think I used the "the devil made me do it" once at home, and my father gave me the tanning of my life "because the devil is obviously making me spank your ass". After that, I took responsibility for my actions - the good and the bad. - robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -20/+165@banderbe
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn’t exist."
Actually, I thought it was pretty cool when he made the statue of liberty disappear.
Oh wait, that was David Copperfield. - davidsmero, on 10/12/2007, -53/+140Only Fox News would come up with this *****.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/12/2007, -21/+107whether... wiji...
damn... - akira117, on 10/12/2007, -36/+114I hear this kind of crap on a regular basis, usually coming from some unintelligent moron.
Dawkins said it best:
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - zldomi, on 10/12/2007, -26/+92This is just Fox News playing to their target demographic. Is anyone really surprised?
- Sc0rned, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68No no no, his Thetan levels were off the charts!
- jobenly, on 10/12/2007, -12/+75"Lauren Green is FOX News Channel's Religion Correspondent."
Chill out people. This was a story about how some religious people are trying to make sense of this whole thing. She also quotes a rabbi, an atheist, a psychologist, and a pastor who doesn't want to say the devil did it.
" [The athiest from Skeptics Magazine], of course, doesn’t believe in anything like demon possession. And surprisingly, he has an unlikely man who almost agrees with him: Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, who says he’s 'not prepared to give the Devil credit for insanity.'
In addition to his theological accolades, Schuller has a background in psychology. He says of Cho: 'I think it’s pure psychotic crack-up.
'I’m not denying that Satan himself could have been in this act. I’m just saying if he was, I’m not giving him credit for it.”
It's not a hard-hitting news piece. It's a Lifestyles article. You would know that if you had read the article. There are plenty of more legitimate reasons to bash religion and Fox News than this article. - killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -9/+72"Lauren Green is FOX News Channel's Religion Correspondent."
- Liam76, on 10/12/2007, -15/+57
It is a blog by a religious correspondent who is explaining the theory that a religous person has.
It is no more the opinion of Fox then supporting Hammas is the opinion of Fox when they interview someone from CAIR. - Nodaki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Nobody should be talking about him. You are giving him what he wants. He wanted the fame hence the video manifesto sent to NBC.
Bury him and remember the lives of the people he took, forget this piece of human garbage. - lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Not surprising, really. Satan's been pissed off since losing the War on Christmas.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Fox News is reporting it was an Acura Cake.
- luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29This 'article' is under the opinion section called 'Views.' You can see it in the upper-left hand corner. Also, you can see that the view-piece was written by Foxnews' religious correspondent. So, it's a fitting OPINION for the author.
- NCg8r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Robble robble, BITCH!
- SpaceDreamer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31Next, on Fox: the tooth fairy's financial struggle against debt
and: the proper way to burn a witch - insomniacal, on 10/12/2007, -10/+28I'm usually dugg down for presenting a different perspective, so why not now?
The original poster wrote, "Fox News publishes an article suggesting that Cho Seung-Hui may have been possessed by the Devil. This is one of the most ludicrous article I've ever seen."
He's wrong. Fox News published an article highlighting questions many people ask at a time like this, and surveying answers from religious figures. This is a valuable service to readers like the Digg community, who then have something to scream loudly against. Information is better than no information. Would you rather _not_ know what religious figures are saying regarding any connection between the devil and the shooting?
Still, the article would have been more balanced had stronger non-devil perspectives been presented. - d00ley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Not really. Schizophrenia is always about 1%, across different ethnic groups, cultures, etc. It has always been around. Why would you suddenly be frightened now? I think you may be watching too much TV.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+28I think jesus made him do it. Or possibly the hamburgler. Its just as plausable as this article.
- TKn00b, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Dr. Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University, shouts an unequivocal “Yes!”
Well then that settles it. One doctor said yes. so it must be true. - SchnellFowVay, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22Look Guys,
Now I find most of what Fox News does as ridiculous as the next guy with their slanted reporting, sensationalizing of tradegies, and inarticulate examinations of key issues.
But this article was merely presenting a view held by more than a few Religious leaders. This, by all means, qualifies as news. Should the correspondent have written an article entitled "All the Crazy Religious People Are Nuts?" and left it at that? As journalists, they have an obligation to bring fourth views honestly held by their constituent. The mere fact that a large number of people hold the view that possession caused this is the exact reason WHY articles like this exist - it presents a point of view without outwardly criticising it (leave that to editorials, bloggers, and us DIGGers).
I think it's quite telling about the sad state of reverse-idiological extremism here on Digg when an article describing a point of view that interviews those most educated in that point of view (religious authorities) is bashed because it doesn't fit in with everyone's (including, to a limited extent, my) notions of religious ridiculousness.
Put another way, would it have made Fox News better at bringing you the news if they ignored this belief which is held by so many Americans because they simply decided to silence a certain group?
Moreover, there is a great deal of philosophy (though not touched upon in that article) that treats "the devil" as merely that bit of inexplicable evil in some people. In this light, psychiatric notions of sociopathy and psychopathy (wherein a person lacks empathy) don't necessarily contradict Judeo-Christian notions of an evil possession wherein one loses the ability to empathize and instead lashes out by harming others.
I'm not saying I believe it one bit. What I am saying is that some of you are way to quick to judge something just because you disagree with it... - drapelyk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I didn't find the article very interesting, but it's in the religion section of Fox News... what else would they report on?
- ericrous, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16"This is Geraldo Rivera, reporting live from a field in the forest where I will be eaten and sacrificed on live TV by a Satanic cult tonight...Here they come....They're stabbing me with daggers...They're evoking the demon god Ubusco...And there go my entrails..."
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -22/+34@banderbe
You think he was Kaiser Soze? - jessdub99, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Nahhhh.... If it was the devil he would have at least had a party... with a Ferrari Cake!
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -36/+47Dugg to show how stupid faux news is.
- draebor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15"Roberts describes Cho's writings as “just words,” and says words are one of Satan’s tools to bring about Man’s destruction."
OMG... Satan must be making him say THAT... and making me type THIS! - MysticSavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11He may not have been possessed by the Devil, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express a few nights ago.
- jimripper, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18A bit frightening isn't it? The prevalence of schizophrenia is estimated to be between 0.5 and 2% of the US population.
- killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12So i guess when William Arkin calls our troops mercenaries in the Washington Times, they are responsible for his words.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15This article is in the VIEWS section of Fox News. Therefore its a COMMENTARY article not a NEWS article.
Sad that both the MSM and apparently the people on this site cannot spot the difference. - gostars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9bury, inaccurate.
Did you folks READ the article? Fox News isn't reporting the kid was possessed. Fox News is giving an even-handed account from people who believe it and others that don't. No harm, no foul. - Hetman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Next of fox news. Has Zeus been targeting trees with his lightning bolts? The story tonight at 9:00.
- neom, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Marked as inaccurate: Fox "News".
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12An opinion piece gets filed by a media outlet's religion correspondent. Time to get out the tar and feathers!
- jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12"Technically that's not really a question mark at the end of that. It's a similar punctuation symbol known as the 'the Cavuto.' It's named for the 'journalist' who pioneered its use,"
- CletusJones, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"Now be quiet! Church is on TV!"
- seifert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think the bigger question is if he floated.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7People used to think that Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, and a host of other mental illnesses were demonic possession. To me, thinking this guy was possessed by the Devil is like thinking he needed a course of leeches or a bloodletting. Beliefs like that were based on ignorance of how the human body works. Our technology and our society is past this.
- JazonBladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hey guys, guess what? Fox News has opinion writers too!
You act like the only opinion that matters is your own collective opinion. The Digg hivemind strikes again. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Stay tuned to Fox News for
Bloodletting: the Health Benefits
Nancy Pelosi caught collecting herbs, Witch status now proven. - Kbennett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Maybe it was the Easter Bunny. I've never trusted that varmint.
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The devil is real to a large portion of the US population.
Which is kinda weird becuase nobody believes in the boogy-man that hides in the closet.
Yet they both don't exist. - craftyguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Cho Seung-Hui was possessed by Fox News.
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Breaking News: Leprechauns told the young man to do it! Geraldo Riveria will have more on this stunning development.
- hmmmok, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It all went downhill after declaring "Mission Accomplished"
- bannoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Holy *****. Literally.
- FryedGuy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Buried. This isn't news.
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