Wednesday, January 24, 2007

THIS is the cost of superstition!

An extreme example, certainly, but yet another reminder of how irrational beliefs cause real world harm.
Four Papua New Guinea women, believed by fellow villagers to have used sorcery to cause a fatal road crash, were tortured with hot metal rods to confess, then murdered and buried standing up in a pit, said police.
The article does include this bit of inanity:
Black magic is widespread in the South Pacific nation where most of the 5.1 million population live subsistence lives.
How about "Belief in black magic is widespread . . ."? Something can't be widespread if it doesn't actually exist.

The horrific details can be found here.

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