Grandma set ablaze to exorcise witchcraft

[navvelline]

This is upsetting, we're supposed to be progressing...not still killing people for being 'witches'. What is this, the middle ages?
Whether they 'intentionally' set her afire, or whether it was accidental due to the 'exorcism', there's no excuse for this behavior. Forcibly giving someone a ‘exorcism’ and then them dying in the process is equally as bad as them intentionally setting the poor woman on fire.  

My apologies if this has been already posted, I didn't see it anywhere in this section of the forum.

http://www.citifmonline.com/site/news/news/view/15038/1:

A 72-year-old grandmother suffered one of the most barbaric of deaths when she was burnt alive by a mob at Tema Site 15 after being accused of being a witch.

A student-nurse, who appeared on the scene, attempted to rescue the old woman from her ordeal but the woman died of her burns within 24 hours of arrival at the Tema General Hospital.

[The Magic Pudding]

I suppose this proves she wasn't a witch.
Witches are hell spawn, and hence inured to flame from an early age.
Yes she suffered an horrifically painful death, but at least the witch question was settled.
Now we don't have to burn her house down and salt the fields, it is a nice house, good land to, I might grab a bit.
The woman will have to find a new midwife, but that's of no importance.

But was the witch question settled?
Someone must have stopped my chooks laying, and Bob wouldn't have done that thing with the goat, not unless witchcraft was involved.
Somebody else must be the witch, where's the kerosene, erm, ah, I meant anointing oil.

[Inevitable Droid]

This is upsetting, we're supposed to be progressing...not still killing people for being 'witches'. What is this, the middle ages?

For many Christians, it's earlier than that.  It's two thousand years ago, or might as well be.  A thousand years from now, in the year 3010, if there are still humans and some of them are Christians, some of these will for all intents and purposes be living as if the date were, for them, three thousand years ago.  This causing of time to effectively stop is actually appealing to them, however grotesque it may be to us.  They like the idea of changelessness.  This psychological attribute may well be a big part of their real, as opposed to apparent, reason for opposing modern Darwinism - a scientific framework that posits change as fundamental to life.

"You cannot step twice into the same river," said the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus.  Darwinism functions beautifully as an explanatory framework in the world as Heraclitus saw it, which is in fact the real world.  Far too many Christians would douse Heraclitus in kerosense and light a match.