So you still believe all cultures are equal?
Well, try this on: the poor people of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, are so scared of vampires now, they’ve killed nine suspected vampires and police have arrested at least 140 wannabe vampire killers (http://news.sky.com/story/dozens-of-arrests-as-mobs-kill-nine-suspected-vampires-in-malawi-11090844). No kidding.
You’d think the authorities would, um, kind of clue people in that vampires don’t exist. Instead, the president of the country said, “My government will offer protection from these alleged bloodsuckers.” If you’ve gotta be protected from ’em, that means they exist–right?
This would be very funny if it weren’t true. Actually, it’s not funny at all. At least one suspected “vampire” was burned alive by a panic-stricken mob, and another was stoned to death. And as the country gets more and more out of control, a wave of ordinary crime has followed.
A lot of our leaders in the, ahem, civilized world promise to protect us from things that do not, in fact, exist: Man-Made Climbit Change, pumpkin spice latte racism, etc.
How scared do they want to make people–people who have already been dumbed down and stripped of brainpower by our public education system? How scared do they want us to be?
Think about it.
Holy smokes! Ignorance and superstition are roaring back into the mainstream. I had thought that vampire and zombie shows were hackneyed cliches from the fifties or earlier, but now they are mainstream, even in advanced nations.
These things certainly suit the goals of the wicked one.
You also don’t want the misfortune of being born an albino in Africa. It’s not pretty what they do to them.
Or in some places to born a twin.
They want people in full-out panic mode. That way, the people will seem to
need them for “protection.”
The great thing about imaginary problems, for liberal statists, is that they never go away.
Quite true.
The more big government tries to solve problems, the bigger the problems get which requires more big government solutions. Ronald Reagan said, “Gov’t is not the solution to our problems – gov’t is the problem.”
“Gov’t is not the solution to our problems – gov’t is the problem.”
Amen!
How about Ireland in the late 1800s? I just found out this haunting story (which made headlines when it happened way back when) about a man who thought his wife had been taken and replaced by a changeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Cleary
How about that! We just saw that story on TV a couple of days ago, on a show called “Lore.”
Check the archives here for a post on modern witch doctors casting spells over the Internet.
Yep, that’s where I saw it, too (and can’t stand the narrator’s voice by the way; so annoying!)
Patty thought at first that the narrator was a computer-generated voice.
It would seem the zombie apocalypse is nearly upon us. UGH!