Is there any Christians today who would have wished for Jesus not to die?   Not to die for their sins? What was really achieved by Jesus supposedly dying on the cross?

Most forms of African witchcraft cults are centred around the sacrificial giving of humans and objects as propitiation to the spirit world.  In this sense, witchcraft and Christians are no different - they inhabit the same world of the spirit and demand exactly the same type of propitiations.  In the Christian worldview, Jesus is said to have paid the ultimate sacrifice, a sacrifice which it is claimed, is being carried out daily by those who refuse to follow him.  In fact, the similarities between African witchcraft practices and Christianity are legion:

1)  Both are centred are human sacrifice in which others are supposed to have benefited from the death of the sacrifised human.

2)  There is ritual eating of the body of the sacrifised human

3)  The sacrifised human carries on living in the spirit world, confering benefits to those who sacrifised him/her in the real world

4)  They both inflict great fear and terror to the unsuspecting


It is no surprise that in parts of the world rife with irrationalisms such as most of Africa,  Christianity and witchcraft should have become so close bedfellows. Christians, like practitioners of witchcraft have got no epistemic methods of demonstrating the truth of their claims. Yet, this does not prevent the growth of both irrationalism.



If a Christian Pastor condemns some members of this community as witches, what authority would dissenters have for rejecting the claims of the Pastor?  To whom can they turn for an objective opinion on the matter?  How could it be demonstrated that the Pastor was right or wrong?

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