Cruciating Kids For Christ.

[cdunn]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-af-nigeria-child-witches,0,5276725.story

Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.

Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

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The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.

Across the continent from where tinpot dictators claiming to be Muslim use religious belief to hammer Somalian women into sexual submission, tinpot dictators claiming to be Christian are using religious belief and witchcraft to extort months and years of income from their flocks, while torturing and killing children in the name of their Lord.

Many of these pastors are splinters from international organizations, founded with the idea of bringing the light of God to Africa.

 

[Sukerkin]

Fanatacism + Religion = {see above and other similar threads}

It's an equation which never fails for it solves to either the religious fanatics doing the killing and burning or being killed or burned.