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Notorious Nigerian witch-hunter to preach in the US

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The Ghost of a Flea1/08/2012 11:45:42 am PST

This preacher’s CV can be found on Barth’s Notes on Religion. She’s both a crook and a nut, and her focus in “witch hunting” is confining and torturing [abandoned] children whose parents claim they are witches. She has a goon squad that help her get her way, up to and including harassment of the secular child shelters that handle “witch children.”

I follow this case because it’s an index of what charismatic, signs-and-wonders fundamentalism looks like absent the stymieing force of a secular law enforcement and social welfare system. Since the preacher is the sole arbiter of spiritual and moral truth, Ukpabio and others like her have fiefdoms. It’s like a hundred small Taiping Heavenly Kingdoms.