Woman burned alive for 'sorcery' in Papua New Guinea

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Do you know anything about Christianity Popeyes? Do you know that in Christianity we have no rules nor any regulations that tell any of us to burn anyone let alone witches? which kinda makes the rest of your arguement moot. For if 'we/christians' Do not have any 'christian rules' telling us to burn witches then the actions of people burning witches is not a matter of the christian faith. It then becomes a cultural thing, if the culture does not have laws on the books that says witches must be burnt at the stake, then it's on indivisuals...

Ah, you conveniently seem to have ignored my post on the last page, where I directed you to two separate instances of explicit instruction, in your bible, to kill witches. Maybe go back and read that. Or perhaps you were ignoring it on purpose?

Have you read your bible, Drich?

Which brings me to the whole reason I posted in this thread to begin with. Why haven't any of you (including the people who orginally brought this story out of that part of the world) looked past the religious ties or even the cultural ones, to the actual indivisuals who committed the crime? Where's the out rage here? I mean how bigotted do your posts have to be before someone calls you out for being a racist? or at least an elieteist? Not just you Popeyes, but all who have built arguements based on religion or community. You dumb-assess fail to see that the religion you are blaming has nothing to do with this (my arguement would be the same for Islam if it applied) Nor does the community, that you have condemned (you Popeyes for lumping the Whole lot of them in to your condemning post) even though that nation does not have any laws making the hunting and burning of witches legal. Again because of this it is on the actual people responsiable for this crime, but you have condmened an entire island nation of people...

Hey Drich? Has it ever occurred to you that people can be angry at more than one thing at a time? The fact is, it goes without saying that we're angry at the people who burned her. The simple fact that we're condemning the burning of this woman at all implies we don't like the act! There's nothing racist here, you blithering idiot. Not one of us has mentioned race, let alone in a negative context. The one difference between what we're doing and what you're doing is that we're all intellectually honest enough to see that religion is clearly at fault here too.

Because, and think this one through carefully, but where do you think these people got the idea that witches exist at all? Or that they're a threat that needs to be put down? There's no physical evidence of witchcraft, because witchcraft does not exist. Where are they most likely to have gotten these ideas from? They're not naturally occurring concepts, after all.

But, crazy as it sounds, they do appear in the holy book that these people, belonging to a predominantly christian nation, will have read. And lo and behold, despite your ignorant denials, there are indeed exhortations to murder witches in that same book! How crazy! /sarcasm.

Funnily enough, there's not exactly a huge tradition of atheists burning witches, now is there? I wonder why that would be? After all, according to you, religion doesn't come into it, so there should be at least some evidence of that...

Not that I personally care about stuff like this (racism and being politically correct as it is apart of your 'morality' and not mine.) but I know you do, and I just want to take this oppertunity to nail you for your immoral hyprocritical 'thinking' or lack their of. Not just you pops, but everyone who has argued in the way i described, an does not have the sense to see his own hyprocrisy.

Oh I see. So you've got no problem with racism, and given that you don't find it immoral I hazard a guess that you indulge in a little of it yourself, but you'll call us all out on it? And then call us hypocrites?

Interesting...

Do you have access to the internet?
Do you have access to this 'new' site i believe it called goggle or maybe google I forget. (I might just have to google that one.) but anyway, It's called a search engine, and all you have to do is type in something like "Christian martyrs burned" and this site (believe it or not) will search the entire internet and look up pages that have to do with Christians being burned for what they believe.

So basically "I have no evidence (tres unusual!) and will not bother looking it up either."

So, are you saying you made your initial assertion without any evidence at all then, Drich?