'Witches' burnt to death in Kenya
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We knew how to deal with witches in this country once too! Now they just run around all over the place casting spells, hexing people and running for public office. It's a scourge I tell you!
Why is it that this continent cannot socially evolve-Burning witches, hacking each other to death with machetes. Some people over there will eat their enemies heart because they beleive it gives them power.
Heck you'd burn your own mother wouldn't you if you've been conditioned into believing in hocus pocus?
I'd wager a guess that it's because they're still struggling for survival. I think social graces and higher education come only once your children stop starving to death in front of you.
How long ago were witches being burned in North America? And they're still shunned and loathed in many areas. Try dressing all in black and declaring yourself Wiccan and see the reactions you get. You might not find us so socially evolved. lol
I don't think it's that simple. Rwanda wasn't facing famine when people started chopping eachother up into pieces en masse. Kenya is not the poorest country either.
but how long did the witch burnings in NA last 10 20 30 years? in Africa thev'e been doing that sort of thing for hundreds if not thousands of years.Wiccans are harmless you mean satanist or something?
My point is try living as a Wiccan. YOU may think they're harmless, but the reaction of many is that they are nothing short of satanists. You'd be amazed Lester.
No, you're right, it's not that simple. But, have Rwanda or Kenya ever seen the stability that North America has? Just because they're not directly facing a famine, doesn't mean they've had time to recover from the past ones and build a strong industrialized nation. I find we kind of forget the intellectual and social luxuries afforded to us by living where we do.
Yes,we have intellectual and social luxuries- but we built them, our ancestors had famines -they built irrigation canals, infrastructure to serve their needs. Why can't they, we've spent millions and miliions over there in aid and there is still famine.It's almost as if they are so entrenched in their past they are not willing to advance- Africa is resource rich continent they could be very wealthy if they could get it together.
I don't forget it, I just don't see all of it as necessary to maintain basic decency. I don't think you need to be raised in utopia to realize that burning some 80 year old woman alive is wrong.
I also think we like to overstate our own culture's stability. My grandma was Polish. You could hardly call her country stable for most of the last century. 2 world wars, followed by decades of communist oppression takes its toll I'm sure. But, we wouldn't make excuses for a Pole burning someone to death. We would call it what it is.
It has nothing to do with stability or famine or the lack thereof - these are deeply ingrained beliefs which are not that different from superstitions or beliefs elsewhere in the world.
The problem is the violent way in which they act upon their beliefs - but then human life has mostly not had much value in africa.
The problem is the violent way in which they act upon their beliefs - but then human life has mostly not had much value in africa.
I seriously don't think these people give a rats ass who's got it worse then they do or not..... they are aware of their current problems and difficulties, they are in desperate times and if no solutions seem to be coming their way, desperate actions will be taken.... and they most likely won't think twice about finding a group of minorities to blame their problems on.
Telling them that some people in another country are more poor then they are and they should be greatful for what they have will only make you lose a few limbs.
The Salem Witch Trials were actually much shorter than that. I think it was less than a year of the hysteria and then the Governor of Massachusetts stepped in and put a stop to it after his wife was named. I did a report on the dynamics of the trials in college but that was so long ago.
I am actually going to check back on this because I don't believe that witch burning in NA was as widespread as some would think during Colonial American times. Heck they weren't even burned, they were hung and one male was pressed.