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Body parts from people with albinism are removed to make charms and spells that witch doctors claim bring good luck and wealth. The body parts sell for around $600 (£389) in Tanzania, with an entire corpse fetching $75,000 (£48,619), according to the UN.
The UN has warned that such attacks are increasing ahead of elections in Tanzania in October, with politicians turning to witch doctors to improve their luck.
The country banned witchcraft in December in an attempt to prevent attacks and kidnappings. But Vicky Ntetema, executive director of Under The Same Sun, a Canadian nonprofit organisation working to defend people with albinism, criticized political leaders for failing to intensify the effort.
A US survey in 2010 found that while most people in Tanzania are Christian or Muslim, 93% said they believed in witchcraft.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(October 23, 2015 at 8:18 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So after the purity wedding thread I started wondering why on earth PoC cling to religion that so deeply opresses/Ed them?
You've lost me. How does christianity discriminate against people of color?
Galatians 3:28English Standard Version (ESV)
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
(October 23, 2015 at 8:18 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So after the purity wedding thread I started wondering why on earth PoC cling to religion that so deeply opresses/Ed them?
You've lost me. How does christianity discriminate against people of color?
Galatians 3:28English Standard Version (ESV)
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
(October 23, 2015 at 8:18 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: So after the purity wedding thread I started wondering why on earth PoC cling to religion that so deeply opresses/Ed them?
You've lost me. How does christianity discriminate against people of color?
Galatians 3:28English Standard Version (ESV)
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And that's from the same BS that tells women to STFU and for slaves to obey their masters. Notice that the verse only mentions Jews and Greeks. It omits everyone else.
October 26, 2015 at 10:33 pm (This post was last modified: October 26, 2015 at 10:34 pm by Lek.)
(October 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote:
(October 26, 2015 at 4:15 pm)Lek Wrote: You've lost me. How does christianity discriminate against people of color?
Galatians 3:28English Standard Version (ESV)
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Did you not read the thread?
Yeah. I read every post and see nothing but a bunch of worthless remarks about how christians did this and that, but not about how "people of color" embracing christianity makes them oppressed. You seem to attribute all the atrocities in the history of western civilization to christianity because christianity was the prevalent faith claimed by the people of those times. I guess white people are "evil" because most of the people in western culture were caucasian. After that you come out with statements to the effect that African people are stupid or crazy. That sounds terribly racist to me. Those comments were probably made by atheists who are "people of non-color". Whenever I make a statement about the rapid of christianity in Africa and China in this forum, I always get replies about how uneducated and gullible they are. All I see in this thread is a bunch of hate speech directed mainly at christians and a condescending attitude toward people of color.
October 27, 2015 at 12:21 am (This post was last modified: October 27, 2015 at 12:30 am by dyresand.)
(October 26, 2015 at 10:33 pm)Lek Wrote:
(October 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Did you not read the thread?
Yeah. I read every post and see nothing but a bunch of worthless remarks about how christians did this and that, but not about how "people of color" embracing christianity makes them oppressed. You seem to attribute all the atrocities in the history of western civilization to christianity because christianity was the prevalent faith claimed by the people of those times. I guess white people are "evil" because most of the people in western culture were caucasian. After that you come out with statements to the effect that African people are stupid or crazy. That sounds terribly racist to me. Those comments were probably made by atheists who are "people of non-color". Whenever I make a statement about the rapid of christianity in Africa and China in this forum, I always get replies about how uneducated and gullible they are. All I see in this thread is a bunch of hate speech directed mainly at christians and a condescending attitude toward people of color.
christianity is the religion that was beaten into people and it was the same fucking religion that justified slavery beating and killing of slaves.
that same fucking religion that the people of color still choose to follow because it is so fucking deeply ingrained into tradition they don't fucking look back at mother fucking history and say to your god you believe in fuck that guy and his son. Those people back then were for every intense and purpose is more christian than you and any christian in the first world. Those people followed the bible to the letter and look at what they did i don't respect christianity or any religion with yaweh in it. Well no if you think about it why do you think the bible is cherry picked and only the good parts are said out loud during church service. So yeah christians of color are stupid but they aren't crazy they just didn't brush up on their fucking history if they did they would hate christians for what it's what it's worth. Also before you go and try to slander atheists just remember who has more people in jail, who has more issues with marriage and who has more issues with porn and over all has more health issues certainly not atheists. There is athiests of color and they do understand their history and you know what i am proud of them they see through the bullshit of the bible and its fucking racist, misogynistic, child abuse 101, evil, violent teachings.
(October 26, 2015 at 10:33 pm)Lek Wrote: Yeah. I read every post and see nothing but a bunch of worthless remarks about how christians did this and that, but not about how "people of color" embracing christianity makes them oppressed. You seem to attribute all the atrocities in the history of western civilization to christianity because christianity was the prevalent faith claimed by the people of those times. I guess white people are "evil" because most of the people in western culture were caucasian. After that you come out with statements to the effect that African people are stupid or crazy. That sounds terribly racist to me. Those comments were probably made by atheists who are "people of non-color". Whenever I make a statement about the rapid of christianity in Africa and China in this forum, I always get replies about how uneducated and gullible they are. All I see in this thread is a bunch of hate speech directed mainly at christians and a condescending attitude toward people of color.
christianity is the religion that was beaten into people and it was the same fucking religion that justified slavery beating and killing of slaves.
that same fucking religion that the people of color still choose to follow because it is so fucking deeply ingrained into tradition they don't fucking look back at mother fucking history and say to your god you believe in fuck that guy and his son. Those people back then were for every intense and purpose is more christian than you and any christian in the first world. Those people followed the bible to the letter and look at what they did i don't respect christianity or any religion with yaweh in it. Well no if you think about it why do you think the bible is cherry picked and only the good parts are said out loud during church service. So yeah christians of color are stupid but they aren't crazy they just didn't brush up on their fucking history if they did they would hate christians for what it's what it's worth. Also before you go and try to slander atheists just remember who has more people in jail, who has more issues with marriage and who has more issues with porn and over all has more health issues certainly not atheists. There is athiests of color and they do understand their history and you know what i am proud of them they see through the bullshit of the bible and its fucking racist, misogynistic, child abuse 101, evil, violent teachings.
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christianity is the religion that was beaten into people and it was the same fucking religion that justified slavery beating and killing of slaves.