The Hello Kitty Demon is Alive and Well

I could write a book on the ridiculous things my co-workers actually believe. The latest involves the old Hello Kitty hoax, myth, whatever you want to call it. One of my co-workers asked me the other day if I had heard about the Hello Kitty demon story. I thought everyone had heard that one - the parents of a child with cancer made a pact with the devil to heal their daughter and in return they would create a character in his honor and anyone who bought the toy would be inadvertently worshipping him or a demon would reside in the toy and anyone who played with it may become possessed, etc., bla, bla, bla

The co-worker's story was quite different (very creative and detailed) than all the others I had heard, but the most amazing part of her story was that she claimed it was her priest who told her about this! Yep, she's Catholic. I don't know if this was part of a sermon, but he apparently was telling this to a group from what I gathered from her weird articulation of the whole thing. Of course now, she is terrified of everything Hello Kitty. I told her it wasn't true, that it was a ridiculous story that had been floating around for a long time and she needed to actually look it up for herself but by the way she seemed to blow that off, I imagine she would rather believe the story is true so she can have something spooky to talk about with all her superstitious friends.

But if it's true that her priest was the one who told her this (and my co-worker swears he did) it really blows my mind. I don't know why I'm surprised, considering all the bizarre crap we hear from idiots like Pat Robertson, et al. I've been out of the loop of superstition and religious delusion for a long time so I guess it's hard for me to understand how people can be so gullable even though I know so many are. And it really makes me angry that priests and pastors are busy constantly reinforcing all that ignorance and stupidity.

If people can so willingly believe Hello Kitty is demonic, the preacher's job must be an absolute breeze.