Religion Going Badly


	Religion Going Badly

AtlLiberal

10-20-2009 10:03 AM

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AtlLiberal says:

In what appears to be a blending of old nativistic religion and Christianity the children of Africa suffer.

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10-21-2009 6:28 AM

murieleileen

The worst of religion.

10-21-2009 6:43 AM

syncopath

Religion is a defense against the experience of god
Karl Jung

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/69c8e61b-dcf6-4ce9-97f3-54fe9817a2ca/BCACDFF9-AA99-40F1-8FF7-B6E2AFF37C9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html" href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.beliefnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html"><H1 class="page-title">Witchcraft and Children in Africa: How to Read the Bible Badly</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html"><P class="MsoNormal">Some African churches have taken a frightening literal
turn:<SPAN> </SPAN>accusing children of
witchcraft and torturing or killing them to purify their souls.<SPAN> </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html">Over the weekend, the <A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-af-nigeria-child-witches,0,5276725.story">Associated Press reported that more
than 15,000 Nigerian children have been accused of being witches</A> in the last
decade, with around 1,000 of those children murdered because of the
accusation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2009/10/witchcraft-and-african-children.html">These were not random
acts of violence.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Instead, family
members and pastors often executed their children claiming to literally follow
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thousands of children have suffered torture at the hands of "exorcists" who
charged their impoverished parents vast sums to cleanse their children of
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abuses.<SPAN>  </SPAN>But they confess, "We
cannot afford to make enemies of all the churches around here" and say that the
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