I am a Christian by birth, by association and by willful union! Most of us are Christians, but before the advent of Christianity, Africans had culture and beliefs. Until tomorrow, most of our parents are still loyal to our cultural norms including herbal medicines. Look at the African History and the coming of Europeans, American History and Slavery. The same people who brought Christianity to us enslaved our brothers and sisters.
To those who think using the anti-witch hunt remedy was idolatry or practice of wizardry, please ask yourself if you have ever taken any herbal medicine/remedy since you were born. If you are a Catholic by religion, also ask yourself why the Reverend Fathers, Bishops and even Pope burn incense in the church, are they practicing idolatry or wizardry? I see double standard in the eyes of many:
donuche: I do not agree with you. First, your viewpoint shows you believe there is something called witchcraft. What you failed to admit is that those powers are of the Satan not God. Yes God has the ultimate power above other powers, but the same God gave use the wisdom to develop means and methods to sustain our lives on earth. Such as making medicines to cure sicknesses, cars to get us from point A to point B, swimming pools to cool us down when we are hot etc. The Antidote of witchcraft I mentioned is not different from the prescription given to a sick person by a medical doctor. Oh, I forgot, the same slave masters have indoctrinated most of us to believe that African medicines are evil practices. Sorry, count me out of those foreign dominion, betrayal and relegation of our own culture.
Anyway, let us do our cultivation in the farmyard of whose we have visited. By this I mean the issue at hand now is the injustice the women meted out to their own mother. I support the condemnation of the atrocity, and I hope the law would take its course. Amen.
Posted: at 23-04-2011 04:05 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming |
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