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February 15th, 2012
04:39 AM ET
Pastor, wife accused of killing 'possessed' childrenBy Paula Hancocks, CNN Seoul (CNN) – A pastor and his wife are in custody accused of killing three of their children by starving them to ward off evil spirits, police in South Korea said Wednesday. The couple told police the children - aged nine, seven and three - had been ill, which they believed was a sign they were invaded by evil spirits after eating too much on Lunar New Year. They then cut the children's hair to chase the spirits out and starved them from January 24 until February 2, only allowing them to drink water. Local media reports said the parents had beaten the children with a belt and a fly swatter numerous times. The pastor, named only by his surname Park, and his wife, Cho, told police they tied the children's arms and legs with stockings. All three died on February 2, the first around 2am, the second at 5am and the third at 7am, according to police in the town of Boseong, more than 186 miles (300 kilometers) south of Seoul. FULL STORY
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I am Jesus and I approve this beating. Superstar!
You obviously have read none of Jesus' teachings where He blesses little children and says that the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. If anything, these people's actions show the reality of good and evil. If there is no God, there is no way to tell the difference between the two.
If the only way humans can tell good and evil apart is because God tells us... then how can we know what God says is "good"? That's some trick, huh?
Yup... nothing screams "Faith in god" more then murdering your own children.
let me guess the fake "god" told them to do it right!!!!!!!!!!!
No! The real one did!
this doesn't represent anything God approves of.
@Richard – you must be speaking of the god of the new testament, then, ' cause the god of the old testament was ALL over this one!
@Richard – How would you know?
This is pure sick and pure evil.
I'm sure the Koreans have dealt with the issue appropriately and I'm also sure the real Christians in that nation have condemned it roundly as not reflecting Jesus at all. Unlike that other religion that as a culture kills infidels for disrespecting their so called bible in Christian nations there will be no rioting and killing innocent people.
I don't care for Korean Christians. Some howl after this Park Money Moon. Some chase after Bang Ik Ha who said 10-28-1992 would start the Great Tribulation, etc. Korean Christians caused trouble in my home town.
Korean Christians are not true Christians. They are fooled into thinking that God loves them. They are not white and are put here to serve whites. They are cursed and not going to Heaven.
Religion is the opium of the people. It is like an addictive drug. The more we have, the more we want. It sometimes gives us delusions, it sometimes gives us peace, it sometimes prevents us from knowing right from wrong, it sometimes frees our souls and other times is destroys our souls.
Why do you add "we" durarat? Your only religion is your uninformed opinion. What an arrogant religion you have!!
Okay, these people were just a pair of psycho's! This had nothing to do with religion....they were lunatics people. Also, whoever said about Catholic's not doing things like this, so they just molest kids instead of killing them right! I'm not taking religious sides, but am pointing out that it doesn't matter what religion these people are if your crazy, your crazy. How about you think about the poor children that must have been confused and terrified. You would have to be totally crazy to watch your children die slowly and think it's god's will!
Gotta love those Christians their remedy for "evil spirits." What a sick couple. It makes me truly glad I'm agnostic. Lots of sickos inhabit those church pews.
What a foolish thing to say. That is like saying "Gotta like those blacks for robbing liquor stores" Lumping all of any group together like that is STEREOTYPING.
Guns don't kill people. People with gods kill people.
Do not judge God or His Truth by those who claim to follow Him. The Bible is filled with events of those who identified with God and were cut down by His Justice. You are responsible for yourself and will have to only answer to God and His Ways. The day you face Him, there is nothing that says you will be able to blame someone else for what you did. The Bible says, "the fool says there is no God!"
Not all Christians are like that for your information. Maybe you should check over your facts before you start to run your jabber about this situation. I'm christian but I would never kill my kids because of "evil spirits".
Yes, cause clearly the only people with crazy ideas are "religious".
Get your head out of the sand.
To the person who said that "guns don't kill people, people with gods do". Mao Ze Dong, Joseph Stalin, Genghis Khan...can you find me a religious leader who tops those guys? People do horrible things, they use whatever means they can to justify their actions to themselves; this doesn't make it ok.
Sounds like something from south park
CNN needs to clarify this story. It happened in Seoul, South Korea, not in the USA.
yesm CNN should "clarify" a point that is explicity stated in the story in the very first sentence...
They already clarified it right under the headline, before the very first sentence: Seoul. Didn't say Seoul, Montana. Just Seoul. You should know geography, but most high school graduates can't even identify most U.S. states on a map.
If you read the whole article, the first sentence states that it happened in South Korea, and the last sentence very clearly says: "the town of Boseong, more than 186 miles (300 kilometers) south of Seoul."
Spare the food, spoil the child.
Nothing like that good old time religion
Religion is a social disease.
The mere fact that you feel the need to call religion a social disease shows your uneducation. I'm religious and even I know extremism is wrong. So why do you have to lump everyone together? Let's kill all white people because their ancestors tortured slaves. Let's kill all mexicans because they're too violent. Let's kill all black people because instead of uniting during a crisis, they loot. Starting to sound pretty stupid huh? So religion isn't a social disease. Uneducated people might be a social disease, but that would sound stupid too, right?
So called moderates give license to the crazy. In short, we can't tell you apart.
religion is a drug and of course to much of any drug twist the mind....
people like you who don't know what you're talking about and then develop a stubborn position on that ignorance are the disease
This is sickening. All major organized religion is irrational and crazy, even the 'peaceful' ones. Every time I hear or read about stories like this one I realize no matter how many computers, iPods, satellites and whatnot humankind has developed, it is still, for all intents and purposes, in the Dark Ages. Take that couple out back and put a bullet in each of their heads. On second thought, kill them exactly the way they killed their innocent children. If they're so biblically minded, they're familiar with "an eye for an eye."
You never hear of Catholics doing this. Sure we got our abusive priests but even half of those cases are baloney just stirred up by parents and kids who want money and dont follow the Catholic way. Blaming any religion, though, is stupid. I mean hell, let's blame agnostics because their kids are the ones who cause school shootings and bullying. Stupid, right? RIGHT??
Ok... that's just plain funny. You have to take that schtick on the road. Catholics don't do this? Hilarious.
We have free will because there is no god. He's just a convenient excuse for doing horrible things that our reason might see the better of. A belief in gods or demons is just as ridiculous.
Should have hired an exorcist instead.
vic i doubt the three children had what you would call free will.
Nobody has free will. Do you have the choice to be born? No.
Oh religion, when you finally leave us.
dont blame god for mans evils we all have free will.
you can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice;
if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice;
you can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
i will choose a path that's clear: i will choose free will.
Nobody has the choice to be born therefore nobody has free will. You didn't consciously decide you wanted to be born, nobody asked you ad yet here you are. Explain the free will in that.
RUSH!!!!!!!!!
Evil? Isn't that a figment of your imagination caused by an outmoded value system? I'm sure that pastor would be able to drone on for hours about evil, whatever that is. it's something we were told as youngsters to fight, but from what I see you must constrain those efforts to your own mental state.