·····Christianity as set out in the New Testament (not as twisted out of all recognition by strange cults, fundamentalists etc) is founded on the teachings of Jesus, and if one reads all the Gospels, one will not find any mention therein of torture, cruelty or savagery recommended as a remedy for 'possession'.....
,.,.,
Whatever Jesus may have recommended, Eliza, as the 'treatment', he did believe that madness was caused by demonic "possession" ~~

Gadarene Swine?

~M~