Faith-Healers were the Cho family's idea of "help"

[Scifinerdgrl]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501221.html?hpid=topnews

Cho's family has said nothing publicly about his medical history, his academic performance or anything else that might explain what drove him to kill. Nevertheless, Hyang In Cho knew last year that her son was troubled. Before finding One Mind, she had gone to several other congregations of various denominations seeking help, according to officials at several Northern Virginia churches.

"His problem needed to be solved by spiritual power," said Lee, whose church members met with Cho and his mother. "That's why she came to our church -- because we were helping several people like him." Those churchgoers told Hyang In Cho that her son was afflicted by demonic power and needed deliverance, Lee said.

:banghead::banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

What century is this anyway?

[Jay GW]

what a backwards family
asians in general are really superstitious though
maybe it'll be a wake up call

[DeepWaters]

Just humans being ignorant and irrational again. I'm not surprised.

"OMG! He ahd a demon! Let us begin the exorcism!" I wonder if they really did try to exorcise the demons out of him? If so . . . it obviously did not work.

[Scifinerdgrl]

One good thing might come of this -- people will stop going to Lee's church for healing if they read what a failure it is.

[Styrofoamdeity]

One good thing might come of this -- people will stop going to Lee's church for healing if they read what a failure it is.

According to the quote in the article, the church says "we were helping several people like him". Uhm, you got several psychotic Koreans in that church stalking women and making plans to shoot 32 people? Yeah, that'll keep the general public pouring in to your church. People love having "several" heavily armed psychotic Koreans bent on mass slaughter around church.

[dancer_rnb]

One good thing might come of this -- people will stop going to Lee's church for healing if they read what a failure it is.


They'll just say he or his family didn't pray hard enough..........

[espritch]

God fails again. Big surprise.

[NonHomogenized]

Man, nothing fails like prayer.

Somehow, I'm now even less surprised by this shooting than I was before (and I wasn't very surpised before). If I had psychological problems, was bullied, and then got sent to churches for help, only to be told by sanctimonious jerks that I was possessed and evil, and all that shit, it's not unlikely that I'd have gone on a shooting spree, too.

Fortunately, I neither have psychological problems, nor did I have a family whose idea of "help" was "sending them to church for an exorcism".

[uberhobo]

what a backwards family
asians in general are really superstitious though
maybe it'll be a wake up call

I think it's just as likely that it'll be seen as confirmation that he really was possessed by a demon.

[anthrosciguy]

Notice how long it took for the American press to write about the fact that Cho came from a fundamentalist Christian background. Then remember how other such accounts -- like the guy who killed the Amish schoolkids -- also didn't mention the fundamentalist Christian background of the killer (non-USA writeups did there).

[Loren Pechtel]

Think someone will sue the family and the church?

[Pseudo-Deity]

A number of people in the press have claimed that Cho was anti-christian. Looks more and more likely that this was a complete fabrication.

[Scifinerdgrl]

His rants sure sounded fundy to me

[BigJim]

A number of people in the press have claimed that Cho was anti-christian. Looks more and more likely that this was a complete fabrication.

His rants sure sounded fundy to me

Conservapedia to the rescue (http://www.conservapedia.com/Seung-Hui_Cho):

- The massacre was evidently motivated by the killer's intensely anti-Christian views.

- The killer "railed against his parents' strong Christian faith."

[iLoveKnowledge]

:eek: :confused: :eek: :confused:

I knew Asians tended to be superstitious but.........damn. Is there no end to the madness? At all?

I'm not sure a lawsuit would be needed, much less wise, in this case. Obviously if someone wants to give it a go, fine. It just might not get anywhere.