Suffer The Little Children

How can a doctrine of peace and forgiveness become so absolutely fucking perverted?

The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.

Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United Nations Children's Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa.

Before the brutally superstitious, and probably mentally ill, King James commissioned a politically motivated rewrite of The Bible, "witch" meant "midwife."