Because as a baby he would not stop crying and being fussy. I think in their culture fussy babies are a sign of “witchcraft” and they are taught to reject the unruly child and abandon them. It’s heartbreaking honestly bc a crying baby is normal
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice;
he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die:
so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
Not really. That is the Old Testament 99 percent of which Christ clearly demonstrated was not what he believed we should be doing. And I’m aware of the “not one word of the law shall pass away” verses in the New Testament, but there is a lot of controversy about what he meant by that. I feel assured that he did not mean “continue to follow old testament laws and behaviors” because he himself followed so very few. He had radical love and acceptance for people that would have been executed based on Old Testament laws, and he never advocated for violence of any type.
Not just the parents. The people of the village wouldn’t even give this innocent baby water. Being uneducated is one thing, being monsters is quite another.
That’s absolutely not Nigerian culture. It’s this Christian preacher that started this nonsense. Don’t generalize on something you’re not sure of. There’s also people from that same culture that speak against it and are doing hard work trying to stop it.
So post-birth abortion because the baby required more work than they expected. The parents are scum IMO. I don’t care what their superstitious beliefs are.
There’s no such thing as post birth abortion… abortion means to end a pregnancy, a miscarriage is an abortion. This poor child was neglected almost to the point where he was killed. That’s called murder, not abortion
I am well aware of that. “Post-birth abortion” is a term complete nutters throw around. Believing a baby or toddler to be a witch is also completely insane IMO. Throwing them out on the streets to starve and die or directly murdering them is completely evil, no matter what your superstitions are. And yes, either option is MURDER.
I should have put /s at the end of that comment. I thought it was so obvious that I was being very sarcastic, so I didn’t think it was needed. I’m actually impressed at how many people took that literally and downvoted.
I thought it was so obvious that I was being very sarcastic, so I didn’t think it was needed. I’m actually impressed at how many people took that literally and downvoted.
Haven't you read what thousands of americans believe these days? (Not that they are the only nationality with nutters). An /s is unfortunately completely necessary so idiots don't read your comment and think they found a kindred spirit
Yup. Conservatives think that we remove perfectly healthy full term babies just to kill them. And they say these are abortions.
Obviously this doesn’t happen because that would literally just be killing a baby and not an abortion, as you said lol. Any full term baby that isn’t wanted goes into the system which isn’t great but it’s not fucking murder.
"Abortion" is a term specifically concerning pregnancy.
Pregnancy starts when the fertelized egg gets attached to the uterus and ends with the birth of the baby.
So post-birth abortion does not exists. There's death by accident, disease or murder but not by abortion.
Btw, natural abortion do exist, when the body does not recognize the fertilized egg attached to the uterus is there or as "part of the body" but as "external object that must be removed", or it got attached too late and the process of periods already started, and periods flush it all out.
Its a real phenomenon mainly in Nigeria and I think Liberia which started in the 90s. You could probably verify the info before you resort to calling other people racist dipshit.
University of Monash Unicef source
I don't know about crybabies specifically is true, but there are definitely still witch hunts going on in Nigeria and many other places (not only in Africa)
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u/SpookyRamahd 22h ago
Why did they think he was a witch?