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Originally Posted by ashton
If I was caught on tape being spoken over by a witch doctor to keep witchcraft away, and it wasn't a Halloween stunt, I would probably be quiet about others peoples' pastors.
I am puzzled as to what they hope to accomplish with this as it is old news and everyone has heard it before. For the first time in memory, the October suprise has turned out to be moldy left-overs that people didn't buy the first time around.
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He wasn't a witchdoctor, he was a missionary; and for those not entirely entirely familiar, there is a huge difference between missionaries that show up on your doorstep with pamphlets and the people who have to stand up to mortar attacks in Darfur (which IS a religious war) and protect their congregations from kidnappings perpetrated by cults that practice human sacrifice. In Kenya, where the guy was from, witchcraft IS a real problem and people kill people over there in bizarre magic rituals. So, it doesn't strike me as that odd that a newcomer to this country might not know that witchcraft isn't exactly the way people play over here or that he might have included it in his prayers as a matter of habit. My old Rabbi had a hex put on him by a local witch coven, and this is Seattle not Congo, so it's not THAT far out in left field. He was just a Rabbi like any other, nothing strange about him at all. His site is
http://www.torahresource.com/ His whole point was to emphasize the similarities between early Christianity and Judaism. He is a uniter, yet the local witches hate the guy. He never even said anything about them or against them specifically. His Shabbat lessons are basically (endless liturgy) reading a Torah passage, giving context and background and passing a mic around for people to express opinions on. I guess that is enough to earn the ire of the local coven. BTW there are a LOT of covens around Seattle. Witchcraft isn't exactly passe on the West Coast. It's alive, well and quite bizarre.