tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post5610426795677456253..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: UGANDA WANTS TO KILL GAYSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-6322479322761090362013-09-01T15:21:05.527-06:002013-09-01T15:21:05.527-06:00A friend of mine worked in Uganda for a few months...A friend of mine worked in Uganda for a few months at a time over several years in the early 2000's. She found the people very warm and engaging. She and I share a common interest in folklore, and she was eager to learn about Ugandan folk traditions.<br /><br />She was, however, repelled by what she learned about folk medicine and the strong, widespread belief in witchcraft. Evidently, in the minds of some people, all illness and misfortune is caused by individual humans who have hexed you. In this system, someone is responsible for your troubles, and killing that person will cure you or change your luck.<br /><br />"Western rationality" is at best a thin veneer even for Westerners. (This sort of witchcraft cause-and-effect was still a fairly common idea in the first half of the twentieth century in Appalachia.)<br /><br />I wonder if the American missionaries who have preached the evils of homosexuality in Uganda have any idea what they've tapped into?Rebecca Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494730619850791609noreply@blogger.com