Mmmmk. This is a video of Sarah Palin in church receiving a blessing to aid her in her quest to insert Jesus’ viewpoint into political events and to protect her from witchcraft. I’m not kidding, right at the end.
Isn’t petitioning some higher power with ritual to sway things your way, protect you and smite your enemies basically witchcraft?
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
“But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it’,” he said.
“It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny,” said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
Magical thinking, self-delusion, cognitive dissidence. Rational thinking in these part of the world seem to be at a loss. Rather than sending missionaries, send books; teach critical thinking so these people won’t be self-deluded into believing in black magic spells.
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