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Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by David

David — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Ohmygoodness, that’s disgusting. As a former fundamentalist Evangelical (whose father once tried to exorcise the demons out of him), I know all too well how such things get started and manage to survive, but this is truly scandalous. There has to be some way to stop people like her, and to protect children from monsters like that.

Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Here’s an article specifically about her. Her specialty is preaching about the way Satan possesses children and turns them into witches.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22beliefs.html

You can find “End of the Wicked” on YouTube, a movie the criminal made supposedly showing how children become witches and curse other people.

Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:02:00 +0000

Is there anything we can do to discredit and marginalize these people? About helping the children? As a community we have been able to raise almost $40K for Jessica.. That was a fantastic sign of unity and purpose. We should be able to raise much more to at least help take care of the victims of these nuts.

In know there are NGOs working there on their behalf. I would make their donation a staple of this and other blogs. This is something that needs to be close to our conscience. This is not something we can forget or react to only when we read another post.

I am unable to watch those movies again. The first time was hard enough, but those images haunt me.

I would start with raising money to help whomever is taking care of the kids so they can take care of more of them.

Then I would move on to hiring investigators to collect evidence against these charlatans (somehow, I seem unable to find adjectives sufficiently evil to describe these people) and try to find allies among influential personalities.

Finally, I would like to see the initiative gain enough steam to bring these people to justice and effectively terminate their activities.

I don’t care if we need to form an alliance with the Catholic church or any other Church that finds these preachers abominable. I would not want to do this to further the cause of atheism and humanism or because I want to relive my guilt for having a roof over my head and a warm meal a day.
I would like to do this because it’s the right thing to do. Because these are among the most innocent victims and they deserve to be avenged.

Maybe I am reacting too emotionally, maybe I am crazy, but we must be able to do something.

Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:51:00 +0000

I suggest you find the time to watch it. It will be educational. I watched the documentary some time ago and it made me physically sick. There was a scene where a small child was walking is some campus and suddenly this large man shouted at her/him “I want to kill this child” or something to that effect. The look in the child’s eyes was pure terror.
It made my stomach turn. The child was no more than 5. Probably younger.
There is no situation I can think of wheres an adult can talk to a child like that. There is no child that age that can possibly be or have done anything even remotely deserving of that treatment and hate.

When you think that this coward felt justified in making that threat because of his religious beliefs it’s even more disgusting.

Do we lose some of our skepticism when it comes to religious zealots? If so it’s because time and time again they were found deserving of our contempt so when we hear once more that one of them is doing something crazy, hateful and demeaning we tend to believe it.

Take the time to watch the video and next time do not come here passing judgement without doing your homework first.

By the way, so that you don’t waste your precious time, part of their evil is precisely that they do not command the community to exile or murder their children, but take the necessary steps of condemning the children so they are assured that their followers will shun them and kick them out. So no, they do not espressely say “Kick them out and let them roam the streets alone” but they do say”Your child is a witch” which amounts to exactly the same thing.

And guess what’s the cure for these children? You guessed it: exorcism administered by the very same preacher accusing them. For a fee. Ultimately, it comes down to a simple scam. And those families that cannot afford to pay are forced to put their own children in the streets.

Shame on you for defending these evil people. Shame on you.

Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by Jett Perrobone

Jett Perrobone — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:30:00 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought! It took me about a minute before I worked out what it really meant. Some of those statements can be gramattically correct yet still ambiguous. For example, I remember reading about a sign on a church someone saw which said “We love hurting children.” Um, yeah.

Comment on Helen Ukpabio, Witch Hunter, May Be Coming to Texas by Jinx McHue

Jinx McHue — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:28:00 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to filter through the entirety of that documentary to find the relevant parts. Can you give me the time stamps for them?

Comment on Jessica Ahlquist Appears on CNN by Eivind Kjorstad

Eivind Kjorstad — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:08:00 +0000

That’s hilarous, especially if seen as a deliberate jab in the ribs of USA. I mean, if I have a medical problem, I’m gonna go with the antibiotics, the anaestethics, the transplant or whatever medical research recommends, rather than putting my trust in God.

That’s what most religious folks do too, offcourse. In the real world.

Comment on In Georgia, a School Board President Faces Opposition Simply Because He Won’t Reveal His Religious Preference by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:02:00 +0000

Then it’s very obvious that we REALLY need to get religion out of some businesses such as health care.

Comment on In Georgia, a School Board President Faces Opposition Simply Because He Won’t Reveal His Religious Preference by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Since when do corporations and such HAVE religious beliefs? How about the individuals working at a company get to decide if they want to use birth control or not. To do otherwise is to take away an individual’s religious freedom.

Comment on In Georgia, a School Board President Faces Opposition Simply Because He Won’t Reveal His Religious Preference by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Well, that depends on the type of business you have. There are many times and places where discrimination on the basis of religion is ILLEGAL.