Lede of the Day…
… comes, as usual, courtesy of my friend, Lisa, in Ft. Lauderdale:
Friday, Sept. 15 (AP) — A Nigerian murder suspect accused of killing
his brother with an axe told police investigators he actually
attacked a goat, which was only later magically transformed into his
sibling’s corpse, officials said Thursday.
The man, whose name wasn’t released, offered police his explanation
after his arrest on Tuesday in the death of his brother the previous
day at Isseluku village in southern Nigeria.
“He said that the goats were on his farm and he tried to chase them
away. When one wouldn’t move, he attacked it with an axe. He said it
then turned into his brother,” Police Commissioner Udom Ekpoudom told
the Associated Press.
Murder suspects in Nigeria, where many people believe in black magic,
sometimes claim spirits tricked them into killing. In 2001, eight
people were burned to death after one person in their group was
accused of making a bystander’s penis magically disappear.
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Very few humans are sufficiently intelligent, I find, that they can shrug off childhood indoctrination. Our Western secular escape from superstition, via public education, is incomplete, presently in reverse, and was hard-won over several centuries of slow progress. You cannot change animists into rational people once they are, say, 12+ in age. You have to get their kids into boarding school, even if it is only week-boarding, and change the younger generation first. The Empire never did this. The thing to do is export all animists and other superstitious people such as theists of the non-indigenous/moderate variety back to their homelands. Fortress West is the only answer. The dream of rainbow nations throughout the West is over. mydigest.wordpress.com