Burn the witch! (Magician attacked in Dominican Republic)

[DraconianOne]

Pretty horrifying video of Wayne Houchin, a US street magician being attacked and set on fire - while apparently being "blessed" - by the hosts of TV show while he was being interviewed. Houchin's statement on his Facebook page:

Monday while appearing on a TV show in the Dominican Republic, the TV host took a handful of Aqua De Florida, ignited it and intentionally dropped it on my h
ead, setting me on fire.

I was not aware he was going to do this. This was not a stunt or part of an act - this was a criminal attack.

The fast actions of the rest of our Curiosidades team saved my life. The fire was put out and I was rushed to the emergency room. I have bad burns on my head, face, neck and right hand.

I am in pain, but am recovering. I will update you on the situation when I can.

Video here with due warning that it features a man being set on fire

EDIT: From a statement about the attack by Houchin's production team:

Mr Aridio Castillo and Mr. Domingo Bautista of Super Revista publicly accused our team of practicing voodoo and witchcraft and said that the attack was divine justice for the evil practices of our artistic team.

 

[Ironwood]

Good.

[Mrbloodworth]

I have no idea who this is. But, how is this good?

[Ironwood]

The more religious nutbags do crazy obscene shit, the more chance we have of a global fight where we put them to death and send them back to their fucking stupid sky-friend.

[TheWalrus]

The more religious nutbags do crazy obscene shit, the more chance we have of a global fight where we put them to death and send them back to their fucking stupid sky-fiend.

FIFY

[Mrbloodworth]

Because that worked before?

[Kail]

The more religious nutbags do crazy obscene shit, the more chance we have of a global fight where we put them to death and send them back to their fucking stupid sky-friend.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've got one heck of a fight lined up for you tonight!
In this corner, a bunch of crazed fanatic militants with obscenely lethal weapons caches who have decades of field experience fighting guerrilla battles and are willing to die for their cause!
In the other corner, a handful of fat internet nerds!
WHO WILL WIN!

[Ironwood]

Because that worked before?

The Crusades was one bunch of religious nutters against the other.

The September 11th attacks worked out just fine.  They sent one of your guys to the hospital, you sent thousands of theirs to the Morgue.  I ain't clicking on any link that contains Pat Robertson.  That cunt only just admitted that the earth might be a little old.

Bottom line, this guy was INVITED on to a program to get lit on fire.  Someone should be getting shot in the head for that.

Tho it would make some great reality TV.

[Ratman_tf]

[Count Nerfedalot]

Because that worked before?

The September 11th attacks worked out just fine.  They sent one of your guys to the hospital, you sent thousands of theirs to the Morgue. 

Um, what?   You both lost me on that one.  Not sure how a religious terrorist attack that killed nearly 3000 people proves that wiping out the religious extremists who would instigate such an attack won't work, nor how it "worked out just fine" since both innocent and guilty are STILL dying as a consequence of that attack.

Anyway I'm all for some Biblical justice in this case - an eye for an eye. Set the bastard on fire that lured and attacked the "magician" into this assault.  He claims the name of Christ but methinks he failed the basic "what would Jesus do" test.

And I'm cutting you a lot more slack than your actual statement

The more religious nutbags do crazy obscene shit, the more chance we have of a global fight where we put them to death and send them back to their fucking stupid sky-friend.

deserves in assuming that you aren't actually advocating putting to death everyone who believes in a God.  Because while I doubt that is what you meant, what you actually wrote could easily be interpreted to mean you advocate killing a few billion people for their religious beliefs.  Many anti-religious folks DO believe that anyone who believes in a God is a religious nutbag who believes in a stupid sky friend and you did state that all religious nutbags should be killed.  If we're going to kill a few billion people shouldn't we at least base it on some measure of intent (or actual) harm to others?  Which should include those advocating such extremes as well of course since such an act would far exceed anything ever done by any religious nutbag.

[Pennilenko]

I'm going to have to agree with Ironwood

[Hoax]

I'm going to have to agree with Ironwood

Kill them all. I'm sure god will sort it out for them.

[Paelos]

Pretty sure I don't want to be killed for my belief in Jesus, thanks. Nor do I wish anybody else harm in following the general guiding principles of my teacher.

[rattran]

Right, the monkey gets to live for now. Otherwise, Death to all Fanatics!

[Merusk]

There's a reason Ratman linked that picture.  People don't need a reason to kill each other, it's just one excuse that's used frequently.  Eliminate it and the remainder of humanity would be killing each other because one side liked toe shoes while the other thought they were anathema.

Not to mention it's an amusing notion that of killing people whose beliefs you disagree with is justified because they want to kill people who don't agree with their beliefs.

[Nerf]

I don't want to cause any heart attacks by actually being the voice of reason in a thread about well, anything. So instead:

Kill them all. I'm sure god will sort it out for them.

Or not, the real tragedy is that the irony would be completely lost on that particular clump of cells.

[rk47]

That wasn't funny.  

We should burn bless these bastards back.

“It was an accident. It was under no circumstance an intentional act,” Barazarte said.

He said that he had performed similar blessings for more than 20 years and that “none of them had ever turned out badly.” He said his hands also were burned during the incident.

By accident, of course.

[Sheepherder]

The fast actions of the rest of our Curiosidades team saved my life. The fire was put out and I was rushed to the emergency room. I have bad burns on my head, face, neck and right hand.

Reported as first and second degree burns mostly on the head and hands, so that's a tad much.

The stuff seems to be mostly alcohol.  Which is a fucking stupid thing to try and burn a person with due to it's low boiling point.  Do these fuckers not get science?

Oh, wait.

[angry.bob]

Pretty sure I don't want to be killed for my belief in Jesus, thanks.

Why not? If you actually believe in him you should be eager to die, or at the very least not be afraid to die. People trying to save their own lives, especially when they're crawling over women and children to do it is why I think most people don't believe one bit and just like to wave their jesuspeen to impress other cunty idiots.

[Paelos]

I'm not afraid to die. Doesn't mean I'm begging to be shot in the head for my belief. The whole purpose for a Christian man on this planet is supposed to be reaching out to the hungry, the poor, the oppressed. When you feed the lowliest of your brothers, you do it for him.

That's why I have a hard time with religious zealots. They have turned from helping the oppressed and started becoming the oppressors. Instead of a helping hand, they pick up the stick. The idea of Christians in political power is frankly laughable since Jesus wanted nothing to do with either religious law or regional law. He wanted people to unchain themselves from the sins that were weighing them down. He wanted them to turn away from the stuff that was keeping them from seeing their fellow humans as neighbors instead of competitors.

Some people don't believe. It's easy to spot them. Look to see if they are using their faith as a weapon. If they are, they've missed the point.

[Ratman_tf]

That's why I have a hard time with religious zealots. They have turned from helping the oppressed and started becoming the oppressors. Instead of a helping hand, they pick up the stick. The idea of Christians in political power is frankly laughable since Jesus wanted nothing to do with either religious law or regional law. He wanted people to unchain themselves from the sins that were weighing them down. He wanted them to turn away from the stuff that was keeping them from seeing their fellow humans as neighbors instead of competitors.

And then we nailed his ass to some wood to show him how we do things here on earth. 

[angry.bob]

I'm not afraid to die. Doesn't mean I'm begging to be shot in the head for my belief. The whole purpose for a Christian man on this planet is supposed to be reaching out to the hungry, the poor, the oppressed. When you feed the lowliest of your brothers, you do it for him.

That's why I have a hard time with religious zealots. They have turned from helping the oppressed and started becoming the oppressors. Instead of a helping hand, they pick up the stick. The idea of Christians in political power is frankly laughable since Jesus wanted nothing to do with either religious law or regional law. He wanted people to unchain themselves from the sins that were weighing them down. He wanted them to turn away from the stuff that was keeping them from seeing their fellow humans as neighbors instead of competitors.

Some people don't believe. It's easy to spot them. Look to see if they are using their faith as a weapon. If they are, they've missed the point.

I consider everything you wrote to be true. You win this round sir.

[cmlancas]

I'm not afraid to die. Doesn't mean I'm begging to be shot in the head for my belief. The whole purpose for a Christian man on this planet is supposed to be reaching out to the hungry, the poor, the oppressed. When you feed the lowliest of your brothers, you do it for him.

That's why I have a hard time with religious zealots. They have turned from helping the oppressed and started becoming the oppressors. Instead of a helping hand, they pick up the stick. The idea of Christians in political power is frankly laughable since Jesus wanted nothing to do with either religious law or regional law. He wanted people to unchain themselves from the sins that were weighing them down. He wanted them to turn away from the stuff that was keeping them from seeing their fellow humans as neighbors instead of competitors.

Some people don't believe. It's easy to spot them. Look to see if they are using their faith as a weapon. If they are, they've missed the point.

QFT.  I pass a bunch of morons protesting an abortion clinic every Saturday on my way to referee flag football games and always consider stopping and asking what part of Jesus' teachings instructed us with sin to cast stones.

But, they'd misinterpret writings and tell me I'm a fucking idiot.  Or, tell me I'm going to hell.

It just makes me sad as someone who took a friend to a clinic and let her stay with me while she went through a pill abortion.  Man, that was some tough shit.  (Wasn't mine though.)