"Christians" who beat the devil out of children - can real Christians do anything?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4098172.stm
This horrifying case, where so-called "Christian" pastors have encouraged their largely African immigrant flock to a) believe that children are possessed by evil spirits, which need to be tortured out of them, b) that certain religious ceremonies require the sacrifice of a young uncircumcised boy, which boy can be obtained from Africa at £10 a head, or c) having sexual intercourse with a child will cure HIV/AIDS.
As an atheist, a humanist, a rationalist, I know instinctively that I simply do not have the tools to deal with this extraordinary level of ignorance. Ordinary education is not going to do the job, there are adults who apparently need to be re-programmed to not torture and kill children.
This is a job for established religion, for missionaries who can work their "magic" and convince convinced pagan religionists of the higher moral value of true Christianity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4098172.stm
This horrifying case, where so-called "Christian" pastors have encouraged their largely African immigrant flock to a) believe that children are possessed by evil spirits, which need to be tortured out of them, b) that certain religious ceremonies require the sacrifice of a young uncircumcised boy, which boy can be obtained from Africa at £10 a head, or c) having sexual intercourse with a child will cure HIV/AIDS.
As an atheist, a humanist, a rationalist, I know instinctively that I simply do not have the tools to deal with this extraordinary level of ignorance. Ordinary education is not going to do the job, there are adults who apparently need to be re-programmed to not torture and kill children.
This is a job for established religion, for missionaries who can work their "magic" and convince convinced pagan religionists of the higher moral value of true Christianity.
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