The new Christian Inquisition! Christian Pastors denounce thousands of African children as “Witches”, leading to torture or death

CHRISTIANS ARE ON THE HUNT AGAIN FOR WITCHES! 

COULD THAT HAPPEN IN THE US IF RICK SANTORUM IS ELECTED PRESIDENT?

Dispatches: Return to Africa’s Witch Children (1 - 5)  
The new Christian Inquisition!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbGzFN_NalI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWSUAsC3ITg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgALUdzfs1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNDgyp1M0Hg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zktMwd6xLg

African Children Denounced As “Witches” By Christian Pastors
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18/african-children-denounce_n_324943.html

African churches denounce children as ‘witches’ Pastors accuse thousands of children, leading to torture or death
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33356826/ns/world_news-africa/

Witchcraft Legal Aid in Africa

NEW YORK — Accusations of witchcraft in Africa have gained increasing attention because of the severe impact they can have on the lives of those accused, including imprisonment, deprivation of property, banishment from villages and in some cases physical violence.

The human-rights law program I direct recently partnered with an N.G.O. in Malawi to run a mobile legal-aid clinic focusing on witchcraft cases in two rural communities.

Men, women and children flocked to our clinic seeking legal assistance. The cases were challenging and engaged the question of how to confront accusations of witchcraft, particularly when children and elderly women disproportionately bear the brunt of such accusations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/opinion/18iht-edmgbako18.html
Humanist Against Witch Killing and Stigmatization

Pastor, three others, arraign over childwitch hunting and abuse.
A pastor in Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State was last week arraigned before the Oron Magistrate Court 1 for employing the services of hoodlums in an attempt to kill his son, Master Godwin Uko John.
http://www.hawkafrica.blogspot.com/

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MY THOUGHTS:
This is inconceivable in the 21st century. Yet it is happening in Africa. Can it happen here in America. Most of us would say, "not a chance."  But, as our education system is being destroyed by the Conservatives so we will h ave an ignorant younger populace and as radical Christians like Rick Santorum, Pat Robertson, and many others who are so fanatic about the their Christian faiths, this type of behavior might return to America.


Remember Colonist here on what we call America did prosecute and burn at the stake or other wise kill women and children they accused of being witches.


There many religious leaders in America that still harbor the belief in witches and that they are the servants of the Devil and must be destroyed. To them even the non-believer is automatically evil, if a person has not totally accepted Jesus as his/her savior and submit to the supreme laws of Jesus and no other.


Should a religious extremist like Rick Santorum become President and he has a Congress that supports his Christianist policies, we will see an increase in violence toward anyone not swearing allegiance to their form of Christianity. 

Those who do not swear allegiance will be monitored 24/7, imprisoned as provided for in the new military appropriations bill and the patriots act, deported to who knows where (even multi-generation American citizens), and ultimately they will exterminate them, as the Nazis tried to do to the Jews over a half century ago. We have seen that civilized people who are conditioned by religion, and Nazism was a religion and a political party (much the same as what the Republican Party has become today), commit atrocities toward their fellow human beings in the passion of their religion and the hatred of those they fear are evil.


Will history repeat itself to a degree here on the American continent? The situation is very similar to the 1930s when we had the Great Depression in Europe, and crazy religious zealot that used his form of religion and his political power to convinced the people that he can make their life better, if they get rid of the Jews, Homosexuals and Gypsies. The people watched as the Jews were pulled from their homes, robbed of all their possessions and transported to camps. Then the exterminations started and the people turned their backs and allowed the crematories and mass graves be filled with those evil Jews and others who they thought caused such hardship for them.  The only difference here is we don't have a large population of Gypsies, but change that to Muslim and you have the same picture as Europe was.


So I ask you that before you vote in November, think very carefully about what you are about to do and the ramifications that may come from that vote. You may have never voted for a Democrat in your life and it feels like it would be sacrilegious to do so, as they are evil people, and this is my point. Vote for Obama and break that conditioned fear and hatred toward the demonized Democrats. I dare you to stop the slippery slope to what could be the ultimate destruction of our society and nation by the insane Conservative, Tea Party, Republicans.

Sex Worker and Mother, It Saved Me From The Homeless Shelter

How I support my family as a sex worker 

Identity Guestpost by Anonymous on February 15, 2012

Photo by -Benedikt-, used under Creative Commons license.

I think I'm a pretty typical mom. I have three adorable kids. I wear comfy jeans to parent involvement meetings at school. I use cloth diapers, amber teething necklaces, and have a Beco, a Moby, and two Ergos (which obviously means I'm way into baby wearing!).

For all intents and purposes I have the perfect suburban mommy resume. With one enormous exception. I keep a huge secret from my family, neighbors, and friends. After a long day of story time at the library, playing with moon sand, and finger painting… I go to work. I don't have a typical mom job. Not by a long shot.

I'm an escort.

Not an escort of the Ford Motor Co. variety. But an honest to goodness escort. The sort they make jokes about whenever Eliot Spitzer's name comes up.

I have sexual contact with men and am paid for the time I spend with them.

Scoop those jaws up off of the floor, moms and dads, because it's true. And it could happen to you.
I don't mean you'll be trafficked into sex work by some skeevy creeper on the internet — I mean that you may some day be in a position you never dreamed you'd be in doing things you never saw yourself doing in order to make ends meet.

Let me rewind to the beginning.

I was a well-educated stay-at-home mom. My husband didn't make millions but he made enough that if we lived frugally, we were comfortable without an additional income. Then one day, he pulled the rug out from under me. He informed me that he had fallen in love with another woman. And then he left. Just like that.

Years of marriage down the drain. Three children, a dog, and a cat together. None of that was enough to make him stay.

So there I was, a young single mom with three children, an apartment, and pets to provide for. I tried getting jobs, but nothing worked. The salary was never high enough and the hours were never acceptable. I have one school-aged child, a toddler, and an infant. I could have put the youngest two into daycare, but there would be nobody to walk my school-aged child to and from school safely. I have no family, no close friends, no support network, no church, no friendly neighbors, absolutely nothing.

I tried to go to the government, but there was no help there. Every job I could find made enough to disqualify me from welfare programs (no Food Stamps, no Temporary Assistance, no Daycare Assistance, nothing) but never enough to make ends meet. My biggest problem was my student loans. None of those public assistance organizations take student loan repayment into account. I spend more on repaying my student loans than all of my other bills COMBINED. If I default on those, I'll never be able to get ahead. The interest and penalties will continue to build, and I'll be financially sunk. I don't get to file bankruptcy on student loans.

Then one day I bumped into an old college girlfriend at the grocery store. We spent some time catching up and I asked her, out of the blue, if she was still in the escorting business. You see, she put herself through college without a single loan, and without having to work her fingers to the bone in order to make ends meet.

She did it by escorting. When I asked her back then how she did it, and she told me, I was horrified. I still adored her, I just couldn't believe how a person could do such a thing.
My, how I have changed in the few years that have passed.

Here I spent all of these years of marriage living frugally and getting an education while raising my little family, and it all blew up in my face.

So my friend from college gave me the contact info that I needed to get involved with her coordinator in the business. I researched. I made calls. I read blogs. I lurked on forums. I was so afraid. But already the collections calls were coming in, my pantry was empty and I knew if I was going to make it, I was going to have to do something that horrifies most people — something that used to horrify me, too.

And you know what? It's not horrible. I don't hate my life. In fact, sometimes I think I have it better than most American moms. I work on the evenings and weekends the kids are at their father's place (a total of two weekends on four weekdays every month). They never even know I'm gone. Then when they are with me, I get to be a devoted single stay-at-home mom.

I'm very careful to have various safeguards in place and I work with a top-notch company that caters to extremely wealthy clients. I don't put ads on the internet, I don't hook up with people on Craigslist, nothing like that. I'm about as safe as I can possibly be in the unsafe world of a sex worker.

It's not an easy job, it's not glamorous, and I know that most people reading this will be looking down their noses just SURE that they would never do anything so demeaning or degrading.

It's not an easy job, it's not glamorous, and I know that most people reading this will be looking down their noses just SURE that they would never do anything so demeaning or degrading. But I'm happy that I am able to provide for my kids. I'm glad we're not living in a homeless shelter, begging in the streets. I'm glad they are warm, I'm glad they have food in their bellies, and I'm relieved that I can provide them with the basics that they need, and a few extra goodies when they've been especially well-behaved.

Being a parent is hard work. If it weren't for my kids, I'm not sure what I'd be doing right now. One thing is certain: when I say that I would do anything for my kids….I mean it.
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MY THOUGHTS:

This story has been played out by a lot of women, especially since the Great Recession of 2007 to present.

What would be better for these women is that their profession be decriminalized, establish licensed and inspected bordellos and licensed escorts, require frequent STD and other communicable disease screenings to protect the public, and create a central provider/john health screening database that can be accessed through biometrics so that provider can check on john and visa versa.

If the sex worker doesn't fear being arrested for her profession, then if a John is being inappropriate or violent in some way, the sex worker can report the problem to the appropriate authorities. If John's know this is highly likely if they misbehave, then they will me less likely to harm the sex worker. This is especially true in bordellos where there are body guards.

Not only are women turning to escorting, but they are also becoming strippers at the local gentleman's club.  Not only can they earn fairly good money, they stay very athletically toned.

If either one of them stays of the drugs and smokes, they can earn good money and keep it.

One thing they don't need are vice cops constantly setting up sting operation to arrest them and the john or if the stripper does something wrong, like show too much in some cities or get a little too friendly in the VIP room. Once you take it out of the under ground world, it is much easier to make sure things are done in a safe way.