Saturday, August 16, 2008

Spiritual deliverance and rape

Religion kills again. 11-year-old Covenant Elijah was brought to pastor Henry Evbotokkai of the Miracle Deliverance Ministry in Lagos, Nigeria for Spiritual deliverance. Over a three day period, she was brutally raped and murdered. In case you're wondering, spiritual deliverance is a code word for demon possession.

Last July, one prophetess met Mrs. Arik Bassey, the mother of Covenant and told her that she has seen, from her spiritual eyes, that her only child, Covenant, was possessed by witchcraft’s spirit and needed spiritual work to exorcise the demons.

Palpable fear had taken over Covenant’s mother. She had told one of her friends, Mr. Elsie Gabriel, of her predicament. When she was ready to take Covenant to the prophetess for the spiritual deliverance, the woman was said to have travelled outside the state. Elsie told Arik that there was no need to wait for the prophetess to return, as she knew a pastor who could cast out the evil spirit from her child. To buttress her claims of the pastor’s spiritual power, she told Arik that there was a time the pastor made predictions for her and they came to pass. Beleaguered Arik was then convinced that a solution was on the way for her daughter’s perceived problem.

Source: The Sun News Online | Living

Christian missionaries exported Jesus to Africa. Unfortunately, the messy aftermath often involves the rape and murder of children. In her grief, Covenant's mother, Arik Bassey, spoke these wise words.

She said she now sees every pastor as the devil. According to her, whatever respect “I have for anyone that claims to be a pastor has vanished with my daughter’s murder. They are all merchants of death.”

Religion kills. I can hear it now. I will get emails and comments from Christians saying that the crime was committed  in Africa; Christianity in America is not at all like this. I'll send a link to this story as a rebuttal.

1 comment:

Psychodiva said...

they will probably just say these people weren't 'real' christians