Isn’t superstitious belief a “wonderful” thing?
I know, I know, anyone who reads this (particularly Christians) will say that this is barbaric, and that “their” faith doesn’t believe in such cruelty. But wait, several hundred years ago witches were being burned alive by Christians. In fact, it is estimated that over one hundred thousand witches were burned alive or otherwise murdered during the 800-year reign of Christianity in Europe. But we don’t even need to go that far back in history. During the late 17th century, witches were being slaughtered right here in the United States during the Salem Witch Trials.
So you see, religious fanaticism is all the same. Some religions have just evolved more than others and accordingly have stopped practicing their most evil and immoral practices, such as murdering innocent people by roasting them alive or sacrificing them to the gods. Nevertheless, all religions are founded on superstition. The seven year-old girl in India who lost her life as a result of religious dogma is just one more of the millions of victims that have fallen prey to the barbaric religious beliefs of the human race. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
AFP
A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday.
The body of Lalita Tati was found in October one week after her family reported her missing.
“A seven-year-old girl was sacrificed by two persons superstitiously believing that the act would give a better harvest,” Narayan Das, the police chief of Bijapur district, told AFP by telephone.
The two men was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of killing the girl and offering her liver to the gods in a grisly tribal ceremony. Police said the men had confessed to the crime.
The girl was murdered in a jungle district of Chhattisgarh that is a stronghold of rebel Maoists who have tapped into disaffection among local tribal groups.
Human sacrifices occasionally make headlines in deeply religious and superstitious India, and usually occur in poor areas where some people revere practitioners of black magic.
Two suspected child sacrifices were reported in Chhattisgarh in 2010, while in the same year the decapitated body of a factory worker was found in a temple in the eastern state of West Bengal.
The victims are often ritually killed by witchdoctors to appease gods, spirits or deities.
