Drudge links to a sickening story about child sacrifices in London, which the reporter insanely links to Christianity.
Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrifices in London churches.They are brought into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard.
Followers believe that powerful spells require the deaths of "unblemished" male children.
The murderers may call themselves "Christians", but from the description of the "spells" and witchcraft associated with these -- utterly unbiblical -- murders/"sacrifices" it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that the responsible religious influence is African, not Christian.
The report was put together by an expert social worker and lawyer for the Met after talking to hundreds of people in African communities in a series of workshops. It uncovered allegations of witchcraft spells, child trafficking and HIV-positive people who believe that by having sex with a child they will be "cleansed".An extract reads: "People who are desperate will seek out experts to cast spells for them.
"Members of the workshop stated that for a spell to be powerful it required a sacrifice involving a male child unblemished by circumcision. They allege that boy children are being trafficked into the UK for this purpose."
Those kinds of belief are not Christian in any sense, and their practitioners are wrong to use that term to describe themselves. They may be wrong out of ignorance or malice, but they're certainly wrong objectively and unquestionably.
Further, though I'm no expert, the numbers in the report seem a little off.
Last month Scotland Yard revealed it had traced just two out of 300 black boys aged four to seven reported missing from London schools in a three-month period.The true figure for missing boys and girls is feared to be several thousand a year.
The population of London is around 7.5 million; assuming that around 20% of the population is between the ages 0 and 14, that's 1.5 million. I don't know what percentage are West African, but based on the CIA World Factbook it must be less than 5%; 5% of 1.5 million is 75,000. I find it hard to believe that "several thousand" children out of 75,000 can go missing each year and only recently be noticed.
WOW....and the "reporting" doesn't even go more in depth to research the term "Christian"?!?!? I mean...what kind of journalist school did they go to?
I love that the best term they can come up with is "fundamentalist Christian sects". What the crap! First, "Christian" in journalism is an extremely broad term....second, "sects" doesn't even really properly describe the various LEGITIMATE denominations and organizations within the journalist version of Christian.
Third, is "fundamentalist". Ok, I think journalism is using this word like a buzz term nowadays. It's hard to even know where to start regarding the use of this word in combo with Christianity and this particular context. Bottom line = in NO way is this behavior "fundamental" to Christianity's scripture, history, etc.
You may be able to "drudge" up instances in Christainity's history that may correspond, like witch trials, but what a stretch to say that it's "fundamental".
Scott touched on the thing that bothered me most about the article, and that was the use of the term "fundmentalist" christian.
It's bad enough that the writer did not do his job and point out that christianity condemns the very activities described in this writing.
But to use the word fundamentalist would wrongly lead many readers to believe that these activities are at the heart of what true "christians" believe.
The UK is a country with an official, established church called Anglican. It's astonishing to me that nobody bothered to ask anybody over there to comment on the issue.