rd131 Witch-Hunt

Reasonable Doubts Podcast

Jeremy

Science & Medicine, Agnosticism, Religion, Humanism, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Creationism, Skeptic, Criticism, Biblical, Intelligentdesign, Freethinker, Free, Doubt, Atheist, Funny, Apologist, Critical, Apologetics, Thinking, Agnostic, Atheism, Fundamentalism, Bible, Counterapologetics, Philosophy, Nontheism, Reason, Naturalism, Philosophical, Reasonabledoubts, Other, Social Sciences, Epistemology, Theism, Society & Culture, Ethics, Secular, State, Church, Evolution

4.8 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

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Summary

The award-winning human rights activist Leo Igwe exposes how witchcraft accusations are used to prey upon societies most vulnerable, often with tragic consequences. He recounts how the study of philosophy emboldened him to speak out against the dangers of superstitious and magical thinking in his home country of Nigeria and some of the challenges of promoting critical thinking and humanism in Africa.

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