Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Monday, November 17, 2008

Maryclaire's response

Everything that I read about the cult in Uganda, like in the video, said the reason the leader killed all of those people was because they began to question his methods and his false prophesies. He took all of their money and their property, and they began to wonder where all of their money was spent. He said the world would end with the beginning of the millennium, and that did not end up happening so they began to wonder if he was a good leader. Whatever the causes were for the murders of these people, one question of mine remains: How did a few religious leaders kill hundreds of followers without any signs of struggle or without anyone hearing cries for help? This question makes the circumstances of this event all the more eerie to me.

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