Shiva worshippers are screwed up in the head

[Frimost]

More than 100 women have endured being walked on by a priest wearing shoes with nails in their soles during a festival in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The women lay face down in front of the procession as the priest, in an apparent trance, walked over their backs.

Several months ago, in another ritual in a village near the southern town of Madurai, children were buried alive before being retrieved a few seconds later.

In another village in Coimbatore district, authorities have banned the practice of devotees entering burial grounds to symbolically consume human bones in a ritual also connected with the worship of Shiva.

One of the villagers blamed the ban on unnecessary publicity and the photographs of devotees with bones in their mouth that appeared in the media.

 

[mettalrokker]

The only thing I can say about that is, "That's fucked up, BIG TIME"

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

So what, most of you people believe that some clown who ran his mouth off and got nailed to a tree 2000 years ago is God and will someday come back from the dead. That is equally fucked up.

 

[Olivianna]

Idioso Majoro

 

[Gilly Bean]

Religion is about what a person singularly, and a group as a whole believes.

Whether your own personal belief is the same of others, it doesn't make thiers any more 'screwed up' then the next person.

It's thier faith, and what they've been taught. They see nothing wrong with it.

One of my biggest gripes about religion now, is that so many are convinced that all others are frauds, while they are the 'real deal'.

What makes any one religion more likely to have happened, than another one?

I have my own personal beliefs, but I don't go to church, and likely never will, because I've yet to find one that doesn't point fingers at another. I'd rather have my own faith, than someone elses.

 

[Frimost]

So what, most of you people believe that some clown who ran his mouth off and got nailed to a tree 2000 years ago is God and will someday come back from the dead. That is equally fucked up.

Oh Bullshit, your moral equivalency arguments are specious and carry no weight whatsoever for the simple reason that they (the Christians) are not physically harming one another over their beliefs nor eating bones.

 

[Frimost]

Whether your own personal belief is the same of others, it doesn't make thiers any more 'screwed up' then the next person.

Harming one another, and traumatizing young children, and putting real human bones in your mouth makes one religion more fucked-up then another. Religion can break wider societal and criminal laws and walking on a person with nails can be considered assault with violence and burying children alive is child endangerment.

 

[asenath]

So what, most of you people believe that some clown who ran his mouth off and got nailed to a tree 2000 years ago is God and will someday come back from the dead. That is equally fucked up.

*L*

 

[phrodeau]

Harming one another, and traumatizing young children, and putting real human bones in your mouth makes one religion more fucked-up then another. Religion can break wider societal and criminal laws and walking on a person with nails can be considered assault with violence and burying children alive is child endangerment.

Circumcision is a valid medical procedure, and taking the Eucharist is only symbolic cannibalism.

(Beat you to it.)