Another reason Mormonism is better than your religion.......

[_Gazelam]

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

LMPO, This is such a joke. As if.

[_the road to hana]

So I guess your point is that Mormon penises are already tiny, so they're not at risk.

[_Boaz & Lidia]

So I guess your point is that Mormon penises are already tiny, so they're not at risk.

No wonder the Mormon men were so angry at me the day in the temple that I took my endowments out.. jealousy!

[_Yong Xi]

So, this is how Joseph Smith got other men's wives to come to him. Joseph Smith made their penises smaller than his using his peepstone. What was it that Joseph Smith said about "if a women can find a man with a bigger and more righteous penis, she has right to that man without a bill of divorcement", or some such thing.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

LOl, tis really is a joke.

[_Gazelam]

Pirate,

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 3220080422

[_Trevor]

Yeah, the Mormons aren't concerned with shrinking and stealing penises, they're too busy fondling them at Scout Camp and anywhere else they can spend time alone with young boys.

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/06-2NRsummer/p95-0602-miller.html

http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/2008/05/mother-of-sexually-abused-child-brings.html

[_truth dancer]

It could be that those in Kinkasha are laughing about a group of folks in Utah who believe a Mesoamerican/Hebrew angel visited to a boy in NY to start the one and only true church, a church were God requires them to dress up in funny clothing, say secret passwords, and give silly handshakes to get into heaven.

Just saying...

Seems beliefs only seem strange to those who don't believe in them.

;-)

~dancer~