Ignorance + Dogma =

On my daily read of the blog Unreasonable Faith, I came upon something extremely saddening. Daniel Florien, author of the blog, posted an excerpt from a documentary which follows an African Community, whom is primarily of Christian faith, which believes that many of their children are witches and wizards. They exploit the children and put them in very dangerous situations. Many of the children are either disowned or even killed. If these people did not have these strong religious beliefs, they would have no reason to accuse their children of witchcraft. These people are not interpreting their religious texts much differently than most western believers, they just do so more literally. Religion is destructive, religion is dangerous.