Poverty makes people anxious, and anxiety and fear makes for great motivators for making terrible decisions.
"I know witches don't seem real, but also I really cannot afford any bad luck right now. I want to help this child, but what if I do and I lose all my money? Or worse, my family gets put in danger? I can't risk it."
That becomes the thought process of all these people. Even education won't help if they don't have opportunities to earn money and feel secure.
Helen Ukpabio and evil assholes like her are known to send mobs to attack anyone who tries to help children accused of being witches or possessed by evil spirits too. So even if people don’t believe in any of it, there is a very real risk that they will be attacked for trying to help.
A lot of evil happens in the name of religion! People in poverty, they give away what little money they have, or retirees that give away the retirement to megachurch pastors. Religions that tell people they can pray away the gay….cause so many suicides.
People with schizophrenia that go down the religion rabbit hole and try to pray away the voices….
Church sex abuse. Holy wars. Crusades. Martyrdom. The entire Middle East. There’s good in religions too. But there’s good and evil everywhere, religions aren’t immune to evil.
It’s hard to tell if she genuinely believes these children are evil and she’s protecting society from them, and any money she makes off of it is just an added perk, or if she’s purely in it to cash in on a moral panic she helped stir up. It’s evil either way.
If people are showing kindness towards a child, people would see the witch as just a child, and her proclamation and authority would be undermined. The populations belief is all she has.
You’re all acting like we don’t have average Americans that attend churches in America that have hate preachers spouting this same stuff.
Maybe we don’t abandon babies, but this week one said a witch possessed Dump during the debate to make him do poorly and millions of Americans thought “sounds right!”
The only reason, ONLY reason half this country doesn't abandon or physically exploit their children for money is because of secular law telling them they'll serve jail time for doing so.
Poverty is a crime committed against people, forcing them into desperation to survive.
Desperate people do desperate things.
There’s a reason why terrorist organizations thrive best in illiterate and poor areas … poverty makes fertile breeding grounds for radicalization, if you can offer them anything better than the abject suffering their lives hold otherwise.
Also why gangs thrive in poor neighborhoods. Desperation, desire for more, lack of available routes to achieve it…
And, poverty and illiteracy allow grifters to pretend to be the hand of god and play roughshod over the innocents.
You know you brought up a good point, in Thailand I also notice that the most superstitious people are the poor and they would do anything to get a lucky break. Going to the extreme of believing that a sign that the super natural are trying to send you a sign or lottery numbers. They talk about lottery every other day and it is almost a social gathering to hear the lotto winning in the radio. When anything major bad happens, like a series of car accidents, they believe that it was something divine that was angry at them instead of a man made error in driving recklessly.
I don’t know. Given that there are now right wingers calling Harris a witch, I think it’s just crazy propaganda that’s not necessarily tied to poverty.
You think that is evil. Read about the hyenas of Malawi. The ass backward rituals of some of these impoverished nations is outright appalling and disgusting.
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u/Nerevarine91 5d ago
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