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CUTUD, Philippines - Filipinos marked Good Friday by retracing Jesus Christ’s last steps and reliving his crucifixion with nails, whips and blood.
On a dusty hill, with the crowd pressing round, 11 men had themselves nailed to crosses in imitation of Christ’s suffering. The nails hammered into their hands and feet were as thick as pencils.
“I feel lighter after I have been nailed to the cross. But my cross was really heavy,” said Ruben Enage, who started 19 years ago after his mother was cured of tuberculosis.
“It takes a lot of courage to get up there,” said Matthew James, an American in the Philippines on business. “A lot of faith there.”
In the nearby town of San Simon, about 100 men -- old and young -- whipped their backs with bundles of sticks as relatives helped keep the blood flowing with razor blades and water.
“This is just a little pain compared to my sins,” said Ruben Arriola, a house painter.
Elsewhere, Filipinos marked Good Friday more quietly with prayers and pilgrimages.
Most local television and radio stations were off the air, while others broadcast religious shows. Major newspapers did not publish on Thursday or Friday.
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Originally posted by Al Davison
it would seem that if someone were going to go through this mutilation in the name of experiencing what Jesus went through that they would bother to get the crucifixion part right - the nails don't go through the hands! or the feet. they go through the forearms and the ankles (or the heels.
Ugh! All that pain and they did it wrong!
Originally posted by marg6043
When religious believe turn into fanatism this the result of it, and with that you can imagine what else they will be driven to do in the name of these beliefs.
That is the scary thing.
Originally posted by junglejake
Originally posted by marg6043
When religious believe turn into fanatism this the result of it, and with that you can imagine what else they will be driven to do in the name of these beliefs.
That is the scary thing.
I'm one of those fanatics, and wouldn't do that.
See, Christ died for our sins on the cross so we wouldn't have to. Driving nails into yourself is almost as prideful as that preacher who had said, were they in the same situation as Christ, he could have done the same thing Jesus did.
Originally posted by junglejake
I'm one of those fanatics, and wouldn't do that.
See, Christ died for our sins on the cross so we wouldn't have to. Driving nails into yourself is almost as prideful as that preacher who had said, were they in the same situation as Christ, he could have done the same thing Jesus did.