Interesting Religious Practice
 

This link takes you to a story on mass flagellation.

WARNING! If you choose to watch the video in the link, it is somewhat graphic.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rocession.html

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wonder when that day will become a holiday here in the U.S.?

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It is with such sadness that I read the article, because Satan is such a cruel taskmaster.

It somehow reminds me of the stories of the Indians and their gruesome rituals, bloodying themselves for various reasons, and now today, we have hurting people who cut themselves hoping that somehow the cutting will relieve the pain in their hearts.

If only they could know the love of Christ!

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Reminds me of Roman Catholics. In the Philipines they do stuff like that and they way they carried that mock coffin and thronged around it remind me of how they do that with the statue of Mary

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My Grandma came to church with me ONE time. She was a life-long Catholic (she is 99 now) and wouldn't you know, the ONE time she came to a Pentecostal church there were missionaries showing this very stuff!! It was slides they took of people where they live. My grandmother said she wasn't feeling well and left....

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"We would hear the sound of the blows," says Sister Tobiana Sobodka, who was in the next room to Pope John Paul II at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome.

Her evidence was given to the Vatican body which is considering whether to declare the Pope - who died five years ago - a saint.
Flagellation is the beating or whipping of the skin, most often on the back, and often drawing blood, as a bodily penance to show remorse for sin.
It was a widespread practice in some parts of the Catholic ministry up to the 1960s but is uncommon today, says Professor Michael Walsh, a Catholic historian

But in some countries like the Philippines, this re-enactment of the suffering of Jesus Christ - called the Passion play - can take a more extreme form and can draw blood.

It is thought to have come to prominence in Western Europe in medieval times around 600 to 800 AD as an extreme version of bodily penance, says Professor Lewis Ayres, a Catholic theologian at Durham University.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8375174.stm

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That's not all. Both use prayer beads

Prayer beads are used by members of various religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Anglicanism, Islam, Sikhism and Bahá'í Faith to count the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions, such as the rosary of Virgin Mary in Christianity and dhikr (remembrance of God) in Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_beads

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Buncha weirdos.