Fears of witchcraft fuel infanticide in Benin

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Fears of witchcraft fuel infanticide in Benin

Kouande, Benin

Unless a baby is born head first and face upwards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk.

In the eyes of the Baatonou, Boko and Peul people, a child whose birth and early development deviates in any way from the accepted norm is cursed and must be destroyed.

If the parents are compassionate, the baby is simply abandoned to die in the bush or be found and rescued by a charitable soul.

"Farmers going to their fields or women on their way to the market regularly pick up abandoned babies and bring them to us," said Alexis Agbo, of the Child Reception and Protection Centre (Case), a local child-welfare group.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=245792

[getmeouttahere]

1. But they are not fetuses, so

BushCo won't protect them.

[formerrepuke]

2. Horrifying..and infanticide is practised in other cultures on female

infants for no other reason than that of being the "wrong"
gender.

[sui generis]

3. Darwin at work

culling babies from mothers whose gene lines deliver breach babies

witchcraft. Kind of like Dobson expounding on Harry Potter fostering witchcraft and sorcery, not deep in the African bush but right here in America. :eyes:

[undergroundpanther]

4. How biblical

Unless a baby is born head first and face up wards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk.

Here is the proof of it for the "true believers"..

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalms 137:9, KJV)

"How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock." (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!" (Psalms 137:9, Jerusalem Bible)


Ask a Christian friend whether he or she should feel happy to dash a child against the rocks. Your friend will most likely stare at you in horror, much less believe this idea exists in their sacred Bible.

Many Churches have found this verse quite embarrassing. It gives no wonder why priests, Jews, and Christians alike, who quote from Psalms 137, always leaving out this last verse.

(See also Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13-16)

I was born breech, I was premature I weighed 3 pounds. I would have been killed if I was born in Africa today,my brains would be embedded in tree bark... in this village infested with believers of the bible god. Already in America kids die when religious parents fear devil possession..The bible teaches hate alongside"love"..Wake up Christians the god of the bible is not all good.LOOK at the FRUITS of it in AFRICA.Look at the fruits in your book, quoted above. I am sick of this convert or die kind of crap Christianity and religion has done to people and I am sick of the"jesus" that causes Zeal in the hearts of his disciples for it is poison that shuts down reason and compassion and love for people who are different.

We got unaccounted American evangelists and church people with deep pockets and agendas in so many poor countries doing "missionary" work and covert ops.Belief in the bible comes with a dual purpose,making Gay bashing,brainwashing control freak baby killing look like a warm fuzzy or exercises in obedience to god so sociopaths exploiting the poor,and manipulating them and abusing them through desperate situations and the bible can go on doing evil in the name of love,and you who think beliefs in god make a person good as if by magic can help sociopaths create a culture for themselves where they can act out torture and watch babies die..BEWARE and know what it is you believe in fully before you take up that cross..

[getmeouttahere]

5. I feel your pain, underground panther...

keep ranting...you're making sense and probably giving yourself a little peace by getting it out of your system

[undergroundpanther]

6. I could never rant enough

Because I really think people will not care if it threatens the beliefs they cherish more than life itself.Liberal Christians talking jesus is love do not know Jesus. They do not know their bible and the character of their god enough to know WHY it is giving such evil fruits.

The heart of a person is not touched by god or by psychology if it is sociopathic nothing can make a person unable to feel shame guilt or remorse feel bad about what they get pleasure from... People can believe all sorts of stuff about redemption and reform but god has NO POWER over Evil hearted people here who cannot feel enough for others to see them as capable of feeling pain..The bible says evil trees bring forth evil fruits,so why believe in some god thing or some idea if it does nothing to stop bullies control freaks and excuses the crusaders in it's ranks trying to make everyone be like themselves,obey pay up or suffer and die?

Religion has not fixed ANY of the corruption in high places or in homes where parents beat and rape their own kids, Jesus saves nobody from the evil humans do to dominate..Jesus does not stop drugs because he IS a drug and believers are addicted.Please people I wish you'd observe sociopaths are not going to change because we want them to.Learn to see them for what they are and do not by-stand or believe them when they lie or abuse trust or abuse other people or policies or con people and incite hatred.Sociopaths cannot live and let live,because to them it's either win and rule or lose and fight to win another day..

People in Africa kill their children because the bible talks about a devil..A devil they believe is there in their own baby.The way it's born is enough proof for a believer to KILL a baby after it is born.. Just like the killer of the lesbian couple in Kansas..Two women in love is proof enough for a believer to think and act as if the world is about to end. Instead two innocent people are dead.

I know several out lesbians in Kansas that are active with Gay rights..and the Mental Health Consumer movement..They dress gothic and all and I am scared for them today.

It makes me want to strike back and burn an evangelical church to the ground. But I won't because it will only heat up the hatred of these true believers.
People when they believe that the bible is true, and read it and see that the Jesus that can love can kill too are acting as if delusional because the bible is a memetic infection agent a mind virus. Believers can do all kinds of scary inhuman shit because they believe the book more than they are honest about what is really happening around them. Zealous belief clouds judgment,foresight and thinking..And Jesus wants lots of fanatic ardent Zealots who are not "lukewarm" because the book of Christianity says Jesus spits people out who are unwilling to give their mind heart and soul over to the church and will not obey that still small voice like the one that told bush to invade Iraq.

I will not stop ranting and fighting bullies and true believers and their propaganda books until people decide to stop supporting the the cult of domination and authority that is misusing trust with it's millions of human tools exploiting human misery and hope ..see through it's lies ..Until the domination game ends and it's propaganda machine is dismantled and torn apart never to speak of all power goes to winners again.

Until every bully sociopath,con man and control freak is too afraid to act on his sickness and hurt others for"fun" or profit or prophet and knows he cannot get away with it anymore so, he might as well kill himself.

Until there are no more bystanders and enablers of abusers,manipulators,organized crime and con men.

Until people can be who they are without fear of others who cannot stand them for existing and will hurt these freedom loving live and let live people for not doing as they want them to do.

Until someone kills me.