I had an OP-ED piece published in the Monitor on Monday April 26th titled Religious Teachings Reinforce Belief in Witchcraft (in case the link disappears, an image file of the article can be found here). The article was based on an earlier post covering the same subject.
The article prompted a lot of people to contact me via e-mail – both believers, and non believers. Some foreign journalists contacted me expressing shock that there were ‘people that thought they way I did about religion’ in this rather uber-religious country.
Many of the people that contacted me have joined the Freethought Kampala Facebook group, and others came for Freethinkers’ Night – which I think is cool!
My article ended with a challenge:
Anyone who thinks witchcraft works should contact me and collect two million shillings upon a successful demonstration of this so called black-magic.
Bring it on!
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May 3, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hassan
Yes, indeed: Religious Teachings Reinforce Belief in Witchcraft; after all both religion and witchcraft are make-believe fiction, i totally agree with you (James) on that.
In that, it goes without saying, if witchcraft is the opponent then religion is the proponent! i.e Evil Vs Good; Devil Vs God; Demon Vs Angel, e.t.c
May 7, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Komagi
…so either Ugandans have stopped loving money, or witchcraft is not true…tested, re-tested and failed!!! Goodnight and goodbye witchcraft…
March 23, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Eisu Jacob
Please Ugandan’s, till when will tear gas continue torturing innocent people, little children, following them even to their houses and causing them harm. Government of Uganda is there no other option????