We know
from history that humans are their own worst enemies. We have practiced all
sorts of barbarism against our own species for various reasons over the
thousands of years we have recorded history. The tragedy is that even today, in
a modern world of science, there are those who are killed because of backward
religious dogmatic beliefs.
Today I
was reading through www.livescience.com
in the STRANGE NEWS section when I came across an article that just broke my
heart to read but sadly happens all too often.
“… in a small Indian village not far from Nepal, Saraswati
Devi, 45, was accused of being a witch after a local mystic identified her as
having practiced
black magic, reported
The Washington Post. Over a dozen villagers beat Devi to death as
punishment, while her two children tried to intervene. Though Devi's husband
identified her attackers and notified police, no arrests were made, news
reports reveal.” (Radford, Indian Woman Beaten to Death for
'Witchcraft', 2014)
This is not the first case which I have read about where
someone was murdered under the guise of ‘Witchcraft’ or ‘sorcery’. On June 22,
2012 Radford reported about a Saudi Man beheaded for the same accusations.
“… man was recently executed by beheading for practicing
sorcery. The man, identified as Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri, was allegedly
found with occult apparatus, including "books and talismans from which he
learned to harm God's worshipers," according to a statement released by
the Interior Ministry” (Radford, Saudi Man Beheaded for Witchcraft, 2012)
None of
this is new. Over the ages people have always accused those they disapprove of
to be Witches, Sorcerers, Agents of Satan, or Demon possessed. Even today there
is a Christian movement that believes homosexual males and females are “Possessed
by Stink Demons.” On the ‘spiritual’ site Charisman News, Bert Farias says “Homosexuality
is actually a demon spirit. It is such a putrid-smelling demon that other
demons don't even like to hang around it.” (Farias, 2014)
This is
just another attack on a group of people that others see as undesirable. When
will this kind of close minded religious dogmatic thinking stop? When will we
as a people wake up to the reality that zealots are using religion to kill
those whom they personally see as evil? In the case of Saraswati, she was
accused by a ‘mystic’. Someone who is known to practice a form of magic that
could be considered Witchcraft, and has in many cases. In the case of
Christians saying homosexuals are evil and ‘against’ their god, do they not
realize that in that every same book, that very same chapter they are forbidden
to eat shellfish, forbidden to wear blended fabrics, forbidden to cut their
hair, for women to be in public during their ‘cycle’?
In the
end the use of religion to damn others is nothing more than the twisting of a
spiritual path to suit the needs of those that hate. It is the egocentric
belief that everyone should act, be, and live the way others say they should.
After all, all these religious beliefs were created, written, and passed down
by humans. And we KNOW humans NEVER EVER get things wrong. They NEVER EVER
twist things from their original form. And they NEVER EVER have a mental
illness that makes them believe they are receiving the ‘True Word’ of a god.
Wake up
people of the world. Take back your lives. Take back your ability to think and
reason as logical individuals. Wake up and stop being spoon fed someone else’s
evil intentions before you find yourself at the end of their focus, because in
the end… YOU WILL!
Farias, B. M. (2014, 7 22). The Raw, Naked Truth
About Homosexuality. Retrieved from Charisman News: HTML -
http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/the-flaming-herald/44730-the-raw-naked-truth-about-homosexuality
Radford, B. (2012, 6 22). Saudi Man Beheaded for
Witchcraft. Retrieved 8 6, 2014, from Live Science.
Radford, B. (2014, 7 31). Indian Woman Beaten to
Death for 'Witchcraft'. Retrieved 8 8, 2014, from Live Science.
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