Woman burned alive for being a witch

[Arakasi]

Disgusting.
And because I have to say more because of low content rule:
This is ridiculous, seriously, the kind of stuff people do when indoctrinated in superstition is outrageous and aprehensable.

 

[Blunderboy]

She turned me into a newt...



...I got better.



OT - Yeah, the world doesn't all move at the same speed and these kinds of superstitions cling on in all sorts of places.

 

[Lejsen]

Its weird how a lot of places in the world are still stuck in the dark ages.

 

[Moosejaw]

I don't mind religion in general but it's things like these that sometimes make me hate it. People killing other people over pure fiction. And in such a horrible way. Bah! Makes me sick.

Don't get me wrong. Religion has it's good things too. Acts like these just sometimes make those good things hard to see.

People do stupid shit constantly, religion is merely a wayward justification. If religion weren't there, they'd find some other justification to be stupid assholes.

Would it be better if the woman was burned for monetary or political purposes (which I suspect are closer to the true reasons)? I somehow doubt she or her children would care.

 

[honestdiscussioner]

This seems to be the fault of ignorance. Also to a lesser extent, religion.

 

[Moosejaw]

This seems to be the fault of ignorance. Also to a lesser extent, religion.

How can an abstract system of beliefs be culpable in a death? If people stop killing for the glory of their God, they'll just start killing for the glory of their nation or the glory of themselves like everyone else. And the result is still the same: innocent people dead.

 

[honestdiscussioner]

This seems to be the fault of ignorance. Also to a lesser extent, religion.

How can an abstract system of beliefs be culpable in a death? If people stop killing for the glory of their God, they'll just start killing for the glory of their nation or the glory of themselves like everyone else. And the result is still the same: innocent people dead.

Of course there are OTHER reasons to kill, but your statement assumes that anyone for a particular reason still would have killed for another reason had their original motivation not existed. This I think is false. While people will continue to kill for other reasons, without an abstract system of beliefs that leads to gross ignorance, many others will be spared the consequences of such belief systems.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

I'm quite disgusted with some of the reactions here. An innocent woman got burned. That is not funny.

What happened isn't funny, and I don't think the people who are making jokes think that it's funny that an innocent woman got burned. For some people, humor is a way of coping with horrible situations. Some people express their feelings by getting angry or outraged at what happened, some cry and try to understand how something like that could happen in the first place, and others diffuse it by pointing out the absurdity of the whole thing. They're all perfectly natural and valid reactions, even if not everyone agrees with each other. Different personalities and whatnot.

 

[Jamash]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/asia/nepal-witchcraft-burning/index.html

I hope those responsible are burned at the stake themselves. They killed the woman right in front of her daughter.

The article doesn't say she was burned at the stake, she was just beaten up and doused in kerosene.

There's a big difference between burning someone at the stake and what took place in the article, it's not the grand Medieval public spectacle you're making it out to be.

People get burned alive by mobs quite frequently all over the world, but no one has been burned at the stake for probably hundreds of years.

 

[C F]

Ah, humanity.

This saddens me, but I suppose we've got to take the ups and the downs. Humans will be humans. At least the guilty have been apprehended by local authorities. I guess there's nothing more to be done, then.

What the...?! I thought we were past this sort of thing, people! Geez! (Facepalms) When did we start backsliding into the Dark Ages?!

Keep in mind that some people never got out of the Dark Ages.

 

[Dr Jones]

What the...?! I thought we were past this sort of thing, people! Geez! (Facepalms) When did we start backsliding into the Dark Ages?!

My thoughts exactly. I was just singing along to Bob Dylan, mindin' my own business, when i saw this thread. I literally whispered to myself "what the fu.."

I can say i was genuinely surprised, at people's idiocy, but when i saw it was in Nepal, i did figure it was possible.. They aren't as ahead as many other countries in that area.

 

[SadakoMoose]

Behold, another good reason to fund education and infrastructure development in the third world.
If this can't motivate people to get up and start looking into how we can improve the quality of life in more nations other than our own, I can't imagine much else will.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Just want to point out that the topic title is wrong.

She wasn't burned at the stake. They beat the crap out of her, threw kerosene on her and then set her on fire. It's not like the village tried her and then killed her, it was a small bunch of retards that did it.

Now that I've said that...WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?!?! Witches? Spells to make people sick?! SERIOUSLY?! I understand Nepal isn't exactly science capital of the world, but REALLY? How the hell does ANYONE still believe that shit?

At least they're all being charged with murder. If any of them would have gotten away with it, I would be beyond infuriated.

 

[SD-Fiend]

excuse me everyone but technically shamanism isn't a religeon. a shaman is basically a spirit healer and the term can be applied to most healers of the sort

 

[teh_Canape]

sorry, couldn't help myself