Pictured above is five-year-old Cairo Jordan. He was unfortunate to have a religious/superstitious mother who believed in demons and who believed Cairo was possessed by a demon. This religious/superstitious belief caused his mother, Dejaune Ludie Anderson, to take the action of performing an exorcism on him, which resulted in the death of Cairo.
Often, cases like this are strictly based on Christianity. This case may be a combination of Christianity and some type of New Age superstitions. Cairo's mother was in contact with, and receiving "spiritual" advice from, Dawn Elaine Coleman, who claims to be a healer. Police have social media posts made by the two women that show they believed Cairo was possessed by a demon and needed an exorcism. These superstition-based thoughts seem to have gone from Cairo being possessed by a demon, to the little boy actually being a demon. Anderson wrote and posted, "Stop getting caught up in the vessels of this realm. You guys get caught up with how old the body is, if they [sic] adult and kids, etc,. Don't even know it's a full-grown demon in the child [sic] body telling you what to do because you didn't choose your soul. Better start using your 3rd eye."
One of Coleman's posts reveals lack of God-given reason when she wrote:
Just because the avatar is of what we call a child does not mean that it is actually a child there are beings that are here that are not supposed to be here that pick avatars to hide behind to play roles to steal energy and to E ruin lives you better check to see if the children that you think are children = actually have souls or if theyre [sic] not menevolent [sic] beings with a soul and in a child Avatar.
The religious/superstitious beliefs of Anderson and Coleman that caused the murder/exorcism of Cairo are very similar to the beliefs of the two Mormons who developed their own Mormon-type of sect, Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. The Daybells also believed that demons take over people, including children. This irrational belief caused them to murder Lori's two children, seven-year-old Joshua and 17-year-old Rylee.
The root cause of the 21st-century problem of people believing in the superstitious belief in Satan, demons, jinn, etc., and acting on those beliefs is found in the "holy" books of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions and in non-Abrahamic religions like Buddhism. Buddhism teaches belief in the demon Mara, who allegedly tempted Buddha.
The Christian Bible claims Satan tempted Jesus, and tells stories about people being possessed by imaginary demons whom Jesus performed exorcisms on in order to free them of the demons. This ancient nonsense is taken very seriously today by people of faith. This short video clip makes this evident when the exorcist is asked, where do the demons go after an exorcism. The interviewer, who is also a person of faith and not of innate God-given reason, actually asks, "Where do they (the demons) go? Do you just shoo them away?" The exorcist responds by referring to one of the ridiculous stories in the Christian Bible of Jesus performing an exorcism and in which the demons asked him not to "send them away out of the country." (Perhaps sending them away out of the country is equivalent to shooing them away?) In the Bible story, which is found at Mark 5:1-20, Matthew 8:28-32 and Luke 8:26-33, Jesus sends the demons into a large herd of swine. The anonymous author of Mark claims there were 2,000 hogs in the herd, who then rushed down a hill into a lake and were drowned. He doesn't say if the owner of the herd of swine was ever paid for his loss.
The only alternative to dangerous and deadly superstitions is our innate gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of reason. Reason is an essential element of Deism. This empowers Deism and Deists with the ability to help people appreciate and use their gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of reason, which empowers people to free themselves of the fear-based religious superstitions of the world's religions. The more we get the word out about Deism, the more we help people to improve their lives, which improves the world.
