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POPSBegone Heathens!!! From the comments: "Quick question. Does "any form of mysticism are represented" mean Christianity too? Because one definition of mysticism, from wiki, is "(from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, an initiate of a mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight." If it doesn't include Christianity, does that mean that symbolically eating the flesh and drinking the blood of your God, lighting candles, praying to dead people, chanting, performing hour or two hour long ceremonies lead by a man or woman dressed in funny robes, forming small groups to discuss sacred texts, believing that the dead will rise, marking your forehead with ash and speaking in tongues is ok, else you are wiccan?"
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POPSChild Witches
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo nearly 50,000 children live on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital, because they were accused of witchcraft and rejected by their families. In Nigeria, the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network reports that nearly 25,000 children have been abandoned or persecuted on the belief they were witches or wizards. Organizations such as the United Nations Children’s Fund, Africa Unite Against Child Abuse, and Save the Children have stepped in where they could to stop the witch-hunt. But the phenomenon of “witch children” is so widespread throughout Africa these organizations have set up “witch camps” as shelters for children who cannot be safely placed with a relative. Throughout history, people described as witches have been tortured, persecuted, and even murdered. And it is usually society’s most vulnerable who are targeted. With the HIV/AIDS epidemic leaving many children orphaned, and rampant poverty ensuing from crop failure and decade-
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POPSReligion Going Badly In what appears to be a blending of old nativistic religion and Christianity the children of Africa suffer.
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POPSMichelle Obama in White House witchcraft shock
an old unicorn and a signed photograph of Mia Farrow from Polanski's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. A frogskin diary, hidden inside an almanac of equinoxes and solstices reveals that Michelle Obama, the glamorous 5ft 11in Harvard-educated power behind the presidential throne - has been practising witchcraft for at least 5 years. Inside the front cover of the diary was discovered a photograph of Barack wearing a 'Horny President' T-shirt, taken years before he was even involved in mainstream politics. Also discovered by federal agents were recent scorch marks on the floor of the oval office and evidence of sacrificial rituals on the White House lawn. "I always said that Obama won the Presidency by unfair means", screamed wannabe boss Sarah Palin. "That Michelle bitch cast a spell on the whole planet and everyone's gone and fallen into her clever little cauldron", growled the aggrieved Republican glamour-girl. "I say they should confiscate all that witch's equipment and have a ne
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POPSEmma Watson, star of Harry Potter films, is related to 16th century witch Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials. "It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster. "As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname. "The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s." Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area. The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.
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POPSIt's a movie, people! Since the first Potter movie came out there has been this ludicrous panic among some Christians that all their little darlings who view these movies will be recruited by the witch's cabal. And the insanity continues still!
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POPS Wondeful images - 2000 years of human culture Awards competition winner -Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
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POPSFreemasons jailed in Fiji over sorcery claims: report The New Zealand man said that when they were freed the following morning, they were told their release was on the orders of the prime minister's office. Freemasonry is a centuries-old, worldwide fraternity which traditionally practises secret rituals. Its members deny there is anything pernicious about the rituals.
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POPSA Muslim 'genie' sued for harassment in Saudi Arabia I'm sure glad that atheists and leftists have elderly Christian women to humiliate for driving themselves to church on Sunday morning in the beat up old cars they bought with their late husband 40 years ago. I mean, just because these Christian women weren't beheaded by their husbands like radical Islamics do on occasion gives them no right to, gasp, pray for you. I mean, shit, maybe if these Christian women started wearing burqas and submitted to their husbands and let them control them like most liberals do in their own relationships, atheists and leftards wouldn't see them as such a danger to society. "Whip me up some Halal bitch" - is that what atheists say to their current lover or wife after she's had a forced abortion? I'm guessing if Palin were a Muslim genie, atheists wouldn't be accusing her of witchcraft and voodoo. Sheesh.
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POPS300 year old Witch bottle is uncorked more: The analysis took 12 months to complete. Before the salt glaze bottle was opened, it was X-rayed and put through a CT scanner, which showed that its contents included bent iron nails and an unidentified liquid, some of which was drawn off by inserting a syringe through the cork. Tests determined that the liquid was 300-year-old urine and traces of nicotine indicated that it had come from a smoker. The ten nail parings were examined under a microscope and were found to be those of an adult.