Posted on 07/09/2015 6:57:08 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Old fashioned religion with its eye on the ethics of responsibilities as well as rights helps keep our society strong by teaching family values-the value of family
I recently listened to a programme on the CBC about the killing of twins in some Nigerian tribes. This has been going on for some time. I found references from the early 1990s “In Abuja, it is believed that the birth of a set of twins is a sacrilege which brings misfortune both to the family and the village, they see twins as children formed by the devil and therefore are evil. They are poisoned or strangled after they are forcefully taken from their mothers by masquerades that the women are not allowed to see. The ritual continues by building altars on the walls of their huts to the spirits of the slain babies and sacrifices are made to ward them off from returning.”
This practice can only be called barbaric. Yet, in the West it is called Progressive when women abort because they don’t like the sex of the child or they have twins and only want one. It’s barbaric to kill a newborn but not to kill a fetus. Those who question this attitude are treated like Neanderthals.
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