Churches denounce African children as "witches"

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Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 05:31:

Churches denounce African children as "witches"

I think this hasn't been posted yet

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EKET, Nigeria � The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him � Mount Zion Lighthouse.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_nigeria_child_witches

Welcome to 2009

Posted by yukii on Oct-18-2009 05:33:

that's really sad .. those people need to get out of the middle ages & get some education seriously..
lesson 1: condom.

Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 05:33:

whats a condom???

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Oct-18-2009 05:39:

West Africa is filled with rumor and superstition, especially regarding supernatural spiritual practices. The former President of Cote d'Ivor, for example, was long rumored to conduct human sacrifices to equal the age of his chief rival every year on the rival's birthday. No evidence that it happened, but the rumors persist that he did it at the behest of a spiritual advisor who could commune with another world.

Posted by Lira on Oct-18-2009 05:46:

Read about it countless times, and even saw it on the telly once.

The images I saw were disgusting. A whole village ganged on a handful of frail kids and beat them up to death. Those that survived the merciless kicks, punches, and stomps, would then be set on fire. And, what revolted me the most, the villagers looked all joyful, as if they were on a festival. I still remember the grin on the face of a guy after he piledrive'd a kid like Zangief, as the kid's neck snapped.

Posted by Lira on Oct-18-2009 05:49:

quote:
Originally posted by yukii
that's really sad .. those people need to get out of the middle ages & get some education seriously..
lesson 1: condom.

I think you mean "condemn": a condom is not really helpful against roundhouse kicks

Posted by yukii on Oct-18-2009 05:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I think you mean "condemn": a condom is not really helpful against roundhouse kicks

haha, good point. however, i was not relating the condom with their superstition violence. i was making a completely different statement, they need to practice safe sex & stop spreading aids within one another AND stop popping babies every time they have sex, along with other things they should really learn about...

a condom doesn't stand a chance against a roundhouse kick that should be in a fortune cookie.

Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 12:24:

^ i.e. they should stop existing

Posted by astroboy on Oct-18-2009 12:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I think you mean "condemn": a condom is not really helpful against roundhouse kicks

REminds me of an interesting story. The sibling of a friend of mine used to volunteer in Africa somewhere (I think he was in MSF but can't remember this was a while back). Anyway he used to give talks on safe sex etc and would demonstrate by putting a condom on a broom handle. In some of the remote villages he'd be talking through two interpreters so a lot would get lost in translation. Anyway one time he came for a repeat visit to see how things were going and the villagers were pissed off that the condoms he'd given them didn't work.. apparently they had been putting them on broomsticks in their huts.. thinking it was supposed to have some mystical talisman-like birth-control effect lol.

Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 12:34:

Posted by tubularbills on Oct-18-2009 13:01:

wow that's pretty fucked up.

but you know, we have stuff like this (kinda) here in the states too. not really with the whole exorcism thing and pouring acid down mouths or whatever; but there's been a lot of recent child violence ... kids just ganging up on one and beating the shit out of them / setting them on fire.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009...in5385653.shtml

Posted by shaw on Oct-18-2009 13:36:

quote:
Originally posted by astroboy
REminds me of an interesting story. The sibling of a friend of mine used to volunteer in Africa somewhere (I think he was in MSF but can't remember this was a while back). Anyway he used to give talks on safe sex etc and would demonstrate by putting a condom on a broom handle. In some of the remote villages he'd be talking through two interpreters so a lot would get lost in translation. Anyway one time he came for a repeat visit to see how things were going and the villagers were pissed off that the condoms he'd given them didn't work.. apparently they had been putting them on broomsticks in their huts.. thinking it was supposed to have some mystical talisman-like birth-control effect lol.

Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 14:09:

quote:
Originally posted by tubularbills
wow that's pretty fucked up.

but you know, we have stuff like this (kinda) here in the states too. not really with the whole exorcism thing and pouring acid down mouths or whatever; but there's been a lot of recent child violence ... kids just ganging up on one and beating the shit out of them / setting them on fire.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009...in5385653.shtml

that's terrible but a totally different thing. domestic violence in one of its many forms

Posted by Capitalizt on Oct-18-2009 14:31:

Anyone got that video of the Christian woman yelling at children that Harry Potter is EEEVIL because he was a wizard and that he deserves to be killed and burn in hell because of it?

Many Christians in America today still believe in witches, wizards, sworcerers, demons, etc. Ray Comfort (the banana guy who wrote the new "introduction" to Darwin's book) says he believes in this crap at 4:40 here..

Posted by boris_the_bear on Oct-18-2009 14:41:

fuck me! I will believe in Harry Potter. Oh what wouldn't I do to be there with Hermione Granger in the Hogwarts dorm

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Oct-18-2009 14:45:

Posted by chimera66 on Oct-19-2009 00:47:

quote:
Originally posted by yukii
haha, good point. however, i was not relating the condom with their superstition violence. i was making a completely different statement, they need to practice safe sex & stop spreading aids within one another AND stop popping babies every time they have sex, along with other things they should really learn about...

a condom doesn't stand a chance against a roundhouse kick that should be in a fortune cookie.

clearly this story is about a superstitious group of people not the birth rate in africa, not aids and not what you think they should know. with that said what is it that you think you could teach africa?