Belief in the Supernatural

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

~ Steven Pinker (1954-09-18 age:63) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Catholicism still promotes the notion of demonic possession and updated its exorcism ritual on 1999-01-26. Christian churches still murder witches in Africa, not to mention homosexuals, egged on by American evangelicals.