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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/24/2009 : 18:59:56
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Because of horrific and insanely cruel campaigns by Christian preachers like Helen Ukpabio, uncounted numbers of children in Nigeria have been stigmatized as "possessed by Satan." This has lead to their parents abandoning, torturing, and even killing them.
Sam Ituama has set up a makeshift school and shelter to house and protect more than a hundred of these so-called Witch Children. This is a video about a Nigerian motorcycle club's visit to Ituama's shelter.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/24/2009 19:00:29
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2009 : 01:41:13 [Permalink]
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| It's like we can expect exactly anything from people. Ignorance and superstition, and people willing to make other people's lives even worse. What do these people think? "We don't have enough trouble here in Africa, let's make things worse!" Why? I don't get it. Wouldn't it be far more rewarding to try to improve the world instead? Religion must go, now. It improves nothing and I'm sorry to say it kills people even in this day and age. And then they demand respect. What a tragedy. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2009 : 02:43:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Maverick
It's like we can expect exactly anything from people. Ignorance and superstition, and people willing to make other people's lives even worse. What do these people think? "We don't have enough trouble here in Africa, let's make things worse!" Why? I don't get it. Wouldn't it be far more rewarding to try to improve the world instead? Religion must go, now. It improves nothing and I'm sorry to say it kills people even in this day and age. And then they demand respect. What a tragedy.
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Amen, brother.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2009 : 09:58:54 [Permalink]
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| "It's enough sometimes to make you wonder if you're on the right planet" |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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The "Witch Children" of Nigeria
