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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7305522.stm
| Quote: | Filipinos warned on crucifixions
By Frances Harrison
Religious affairs reporter, BBC News
Health officials in the Philippines have issued a warning to people taking part in Easter crucifixion rituals.
They have urged them to get tetanus vaccinations before they flagellate themselves and are nailed to crosses, and to practise good hygiene.
On Good Friday dozens of very devout Catholics in the Philippines re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
It is something that has become a huge tourist attraction, although the Church frowns on the practice.
Disinfect
The health department has strongly advised penitents to check the condition of the whips they plan to use to lash their backs, the Manila Times newspaper reports.
They want people to have what they call "well-maintained" whips.
In the hot and dusty atmosphere, officials warn, using unhygienic whips to make deep cuts in the body could lead to tetanus and other infections.
And they advise that the nails used to fix people to crosses must be properly disinfected first. Often people soak the nails in alcohol throughout the year.
Every Good Friday, in towns across the Philippines, people atone for sins or give thanks for an answered prayer by re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Giving thanks
In the northern city of San Fernando alone there will be three separate improvised Golgothas - the biblical name for the hill where Jesus was crucified.
Four people there have pledged to have their feet and hands nailed to wooden crosses, while others will flog themselves while walking barefoot through villages.
Sometimes people repeat the penance year after year, like the fish vendor who will be nailed to the cross for the 15th and last time on Friday to give thanks for his mother's recovery from tuberculosis.
With long hair and a beard, wearing sandals and a crown of thorns, he is tied with cloth to the cross but also has nails driven through the flesh of his hands and feet, avoiding the bones. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:35 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:47 pm |
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| gotta wonder if when he said that, did God realize how many dooshes were gonna be following him... |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:47 am |
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Well, if God is God (using the definition of "deity in charge of this planet") then yes, he should have been aware (omnipresent and omnipotent and all that).
Of course, you'd need to quantify "protect" and "his own". According to South Park, he's a Buddhist...  |
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| I'm guessing the crucifixions are just a new way of doing an old practice |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:51 am |
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| Anonymouse wrote: | | I'm guessing the crucifixions are just a new way of doing an old practice |
Yeah, re-reading the article I am thinking of the fish vendor who will be crucified for the 15th time to thank God for saving his mother from Tuberculosis. Tied to the cross with nails through his hands and feet as way of thanking a god? Sounds like old blood sacrifices just carried over into new religions.
I wouldn't be surprised though. The PI are mostly Catholic, and the Catholic church has always converted by subverting older religious rituals to the Catholic Church. Christmas, Easter, and all the Saints days are ample examples of that.
The flagellation and crucifixion sounds like they just took some old blood worship rituals and changed the name of the God they were honoring. |
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... the kilt had concealed a blaster strapped to one thigh and a knife to the other. He was aware of the present gentle customs against personal weapons, but he felt naked without them. Such customs were nonsense anyhow, foolishment from old women - there was no such thing as "dangerous weapons," only dangerous people.
--Robert Heinlein in Methuselah's Children |
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