Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Oh, those wacky Pentecostals.


Whatever will they dream up next?

Last night Channel 4 broadcast Saving Africa’s Witch Children, as part of its Dispatches strand. The programme focused on children accused of being witches by Pentecostal pastors in Akwa Ibom state in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, and the work of the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network.

OK, so the Pentecostals are being typically brain-damaged, that's not really news. And what's the worst that could happen? Oh ...

The problem makes for grim viewing: we see children who have been horribly mutilated, and in one case left brain damaged after having had a nail driven through her skull; others appear withdrawn and tearful after being rejected by their families and threatened.

Yes, it makes for delightful reading. And people wonder why I'm an atheist.

7 comments:

Mike said...

Why does Sarah Palin's crazy pastor suddenly jump to mind?

Gawd these people are retarded.

Anonymous said...

End Religion Now.

The Seer said...
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thwap said...

But they were cured of being witches, ... right?

mikmik said...

Damn witches. Only the godly pure talk in tongues while thrashing wildly on the ground, slap imbeciles on the forehead and 'cure' them, let imbeciles slap them on the forehead and think they've been cured ... I guess I'm saying only the P-costal are allowed to practice witchcraft.

(When I was eleven or twelve, my best friend and next door neighbor talked me into going to church with his family. That night I realized that being an atheist was the right call, without a shadow of a doubt)

Luna said...

Oh God... How horrible. How people could do this in the name of Jesus just confounds me. I mean, seriously, wtf? Real or not, his story is of compassion and forgiveness! It is mindblowing.

The Seer said...

Jobs for witches have opened up in Sweden. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4033966