Do you remember reading in school, or seeing in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (a vile movie I might add), stories of human sacrifice? People captured, limbs tied; forced to sacrifice their lives in order to appease the gods. Archaic tales of civilizations long forgotten…

Seems we are merely uninformed.

Human sacrifice is happening today: in a little south African country called Mozambique. According to BBC News:

Murder, mutilation and exhuming human bones for witchcraft have become a common practice, particularly in the country’s northern and central regions.

That’s right. People are being murdered so that their body parts can be used for witchcraft spells. This is different than all of those chilling reports of organ harvesting during surgery or for criminal punishment. These are helpless, forgotten, undeserving women and children. I suppose both cases have profit motive in common.

Thankfully politicians are on the job. Mozambican officials are scrambling as we speak, enacting laws against human trafficking for the purpose of selling body parts. Apparently bad press made them change their views on the topic. Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself; democracy of course; maybe parliament is not in agreement. In a couple of weeks, the story may just blow over and they won’t have to strain themselves. Awww… they grow up so fast.

Some of you may think: “God, why aren’t we over there doing something about this?”. Fair question, I suppose. But let me ask you this: Who are we to go barging into some democratic country and forcing our morality? Do Mozambicans come invade us because our priests sexually abuse our children? No, they mind their own business. We should do the same.

The only reason to invade for the sake of ethics is in the case of verbal or political challenges. Ethical responsibility forces us to create an agreeable form of government and show how righteous we are in giving their citizens more rights and freedoms. We will defend our battles to the death, on ethical grounds of course. Brave at heart indeed.

That is why we cannot send troops to Mozambique or Darfur (where women are regularly raped and forced to eat feces while their families watch). We must stand by our ethics and let democracy flourish! If women don’t like being raped or murdered for body parts then they should vote against it, if they can. Jesus, can’t they see we’ve got enough things to deal with?

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