Posted on 11/20/2005 7:19:29 PM PST by ncountylee
The fixation with the occult dates back to apartheid, writes Gavin du Venage in Cape Town
A CHURCH custodian is murdered in the dead of night and his mutilated corpse, bearing vicious stab wounds to his head and side mimicking those of Jesus Christ on the cross, is left in front of the altar.
On the ground, in the victim's blood, is written the word "Satun" (sic).
The Halloween slaying of 53-year-old Charles Jacobs, janitor at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints in the quiet, church-going town of Paarl, east of Cape Town, is the latest in a long string of murders that reflect an obsession with Satanism that goes back deep into South Africa's apartheid past.
Jacobs's murder, inevitably dubbed the "crucifixion killing", was probably just a botched burglary, police say. But to relatives in the town, it was the work of the devil.
His brother, Ivor, who found the body, describes the scene at the church as "a place filled with evil. We saw a dark spot on the floor. The word 'Satun' was written in my brother's blood".
In South Africa, where murder is commonplace, the killing's satanic overtones made it exceptional. Official police denials of any occult link, and claims that descriptions of Jacobs's injuries were wildly exaggerated, have been drowned out.
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I bet if this murder occurred in the US and there was the slightest bit of evidence pointing to "homophobia", or a similiar type of "hate crime" against an approved group, the world leftist media would be in an uproar.
Yeah, I guess all the thousands of Christians repressed and murdered throughout the last 30 years in North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union would have something to say about the "exaggeration."
15 years, or so, ago South Africa was an advancing Country, troubled but developing.
The people peddling that rubbish have learned nothing from the French riots.
Two men have already been arrested: a defrocked priest whom Mormon elders fired after they discovered he had lied about being ordained, and a local unemployed man.
Before the evil white man arrived, mother Africa must have been heaven on earth.
I didnt think that mormons considered themselves christians..... Since they all work their way to god hood....
"Mandela's Paradise".
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