The Last Exorcism evaluation action
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Cotton Marcus: I do not believe in actual demons, no. No. But when I was doing exorcisms, you know, you know I acted like I did. It's not like I saw any demons come out of anybody.
Iris Reisen: So for the last something-odd years you've just been a fraud?
Cotton Marcus: That's your word, not mine. I wouldn't say that. I would *say* that for the last couple of years what I've been doing is doing what I've always been doing, which is delivering a service for a person who needs it in a *way* that they need it. I'm not saying I'm a doctor but I am saying that I helped heal people, from what ailed them. And what ailed them sometimes was the thought in their brain that they were possessed by a devil. And if I helped make that thought go away, and they felt better... so be it. I got a wife, I got a family to feed. At least that's how I used to justify it.
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Cotton Marcus: What I want to do, is *expose*, exorcism for the scam that it really is, and that's why we're doing this. So if I can help expose it for what it really is, and save one kid from having a plastic bag wrapped around his face... that sounds like God's work.