Religion and Mobs

Here’s a perfect example of religion run amok, when mobs are incited by religious fantasies to commit horrendous acts.

Kenya Mob Burns 15 Women to Death Over Witchcraft

In America, people cite the Bible in justifying their beating to death gay people. In Saudi Arabia, people quote the Koran in forcing women without the proper veils to remain inside a burning building rather than escape to safety. In Israel, people quote the Talmud to justify their belief that they and they alone are God’s chosen people. When superstition rules a society, how much further is it to burning “witches?”

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