Wow Catholics crucify themselves to honor Jesus

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126024/Christians-NAILED-crosses-gruesome-Good-Friday-enactment-Jesuss-death-Philippines.html

 

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That's cool and all, its still not getting them front row tickets to see Elvis..

 

The daily mail-Taking well known, widespread practices, and inserting the word "grim" in as many places as possible, since forever.

Seriously, they need to get over it..... it's an interesting practice, and actually rather widespread, considering it involves being nailed to a cross.... I know the philipenes is by no means the only place it happens. Why don't the daily mail publish articles with pictures of tanks and nuclear missle silos with "grim" in the captions?

 

its hammer time..

 

yeah dude the way some people practice religions are crazy. I like my catohlics the way i like my toast, with something. hahah i made no sense....But seriously thats just plain crazy.

Btw the images arent that gruesome

 

99.99% of catholics are fine with just eating fish instead of meat on fridays.

 

"Catholics have condemned this practice". Why? Isn't this the same group that disseminates publications praising a dude that was nailed to a cross and encouraging readers to follow him?

 

I seriously saw the screws in the hands of those sick fucks.

 

what? he never encouraged people to follow him in getting killed on a cross if that's what you're saying.

 

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1

But yeah, he also didn't encourage people to start churches.

 

imitating someone just means acting how they act, not ensuring that every single thing that was ever done to them by other people is also done to you.

 

One of the definitions, yes. Another definition of imitate is to "copy exactly; reproduce".

Also remember that it's still a reenactment, not a real crucifixion. I don't find it an unreasonable interpretation of the Filipinos to reenact one of the more brutal religious scenes, as opposed to the birth. Which is probably why I'm not a cleric.

 

i will admit i didn't bother clicking on the link. the thread said "catholics crucify themselves," not "catholics reenact crucifying themselves" and i just assumed the link was what the title said.

but yeah, i'm sure you can take the word imitate to mean a lot of things, but i was raised by a very catholic family and this is the first time i've ever heard any indication that jesus had any desire to have people act out his crucifixion in any way.

 

To clarify, reinacting does mean being physically nailed to a cross.

It does not mean being left there to die as a means of execution, they volunteer and spend a few minutes up there.

These are all people who want to be nailed to a cross.

So who cares? Again, why can't the mail publish pictures of weapons of modern mechanized warfare with "grim" in the captions? Why are they so interested in condeming some people reinacting a religious execution of two thousand years ago as a part of their faith, when there are real executions taking place all over the world, even the "first" world, namely the US, as we speak? Executions that are barbaric, too.... You could OD em' on morphine, but instead they give elaborate concoctions of drugs that allegedly act in concert, but have been known to work so badly that they have to just try again later, or spend hours dieing..... That sounds like jeebus to me! Because for some reason dieing of respiratory arrest while asleep and high as balls isn't enough. How about "barbaric" in the captions of photos of the real and working execution chambers in the US, where the victim doesn't get down and go home after?

 

How do we know what jesus desired? Certainly not from the Bible - unless you are willing trust St. Paul, and I certainly don't.

 

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

I imagine jesus would be a whole lot happier with folks who imitated him by caring for the sick, hungry and homeless folks than by a bunch of Borderline Personality Disoreder freaks who get their twisted jollies by being nailed up like a sheet of plywood to a 2x4. Thats pretty presumptuous on their part and a total waste of time and energy. Take the whole mob of those people and go clean up a slum. Go cook up food for the hungry. Take the hammer and nails and fix up some old lady's house.

Instead they do the whole holy holy holy routine by getting nailed up which does exactly how much good for anyone? Seems to me that they are are missing the point.

 

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we don't. all i'm saying is that the idea that he desired this is not part of the catholic religion.

 

I agree with everything you said.

I think this is a problem with christianity, even as christianity refuses this practice.

Christianity is just strong enough to make people who don't really believe it kill others for not believing it.

This sort of thing is just taking the whole "structure" of religion farther-Highly structured religions are making up for the fact that they're not that compelling without hooks-this is just the same, being nailed to a cross makes you REALLY believe-It's also why the american government cares so much about the ceremony for groups using psychedelics-they can't accept that chemicals are really what does it all (even in religions where it's just the ones in your brain) and they're trying to make psychedelic religions as meaningless as their own, dependent on tradition for their meaning.

Anyway, I'm raving here, but you get the idea-it's people trying to convince themselves that they believe. Pain is one feeling that you can force, and that can make a lasting impression.

So these guys may be doing it wrong, but they're just trying to force christianity to be relivent to their lives, while it really isn't that easy in a modern connected and enlightened world. This may be a waste of a well meaning mob, but the mail is still just being sensationalist when there are far more "grim" things happening down the street in their own country.