Fervent Filipino Catholics nailed to crosses for Good Friday

Volunteers dressed as Roman Centurions, drive nails through the palms of an unidentified Catholic devotee in a reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday at San Pedro Cutud, Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines Friday, April 6, 2012. More than two dozen Catholic devotees have themselves nailed on the cross on Good Friday.

SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines — Thousands of people gathered in Philippine villages to watch devotees being nailed to crosses as they marked Good Friday by re-enacting Jesus Christ’s suffering, a yearly rite that continue.

Nine men wearing crowns of twigs on their heads were crucified for a few minutes by villagers dressed as Roman centurions in northern Pampanga province’s San Pedro Cutud village. At least eight other people were nailed to crosses in neighboring villages.

Foreigners have been banned from taking part since an Australian comic was nailed to a cross under a false name a few years ago near Pampanga. Authorities also believe that a Japanese man sought to be crucified as part of a po.rn film in 1996.
On Friday, two foreign students were allowed to film the rites for their thesis, but they angered organizers when they joined the procession, taking turns in carrying a cross, said San Pedro Cutud village captain Remigno dela Cruz.
The two women were not allowed to go to the mound or be nailed to the cross, he said.

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Where is the blood?

LMAO........




Craze people

Logicboy03: LMAO........




Craze people

Before thou beginest to gloat...cast thine eyes into the picture thereof and look upon thou which seem real but isn't. (KJV)

That picture is more like a movie than a reality...if I'm wrong, then explain how a 9 inch nail would be driven into the palm of someone, and there wouldn't be any trace of blood. (Good News Version)

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on what side of the fence you sit on), the pics are real. The ceremonies took place sometime last year.






For the doubting thomases, here's a video too


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB0gYTF40UY

Good morning Uncle Musk,

Though the video didn't reveal much about the 'nailing' but if it happens to be real then that's razz men.

striktlymi: Good morning Uncle Musk,

Though the video didn't reveal much about the 'nailing' but if it happens to be real then that's razz men.

Apologies bros,
That wasn't the correct video. I've uploaded the right one.

Morning to you too, hope you have a great week.

musKeeto:
Apologies bros,
That wasn't the correct video. I've uploaded the right one.

Morning to you too, hope you have a great week.

Quite extreme! I am of the opinion that the authorities shouldn't have permitted it.

striktlymi: Quite extreme! I am of the opinion that the authorities shouldn't have permitted it.

Don't tell me you believe that sheet.

CrazyMan:
Don't tell me you believe that sh!t.

I would have loved to not believe but the evidence seems to support it. Did a small research about it too though not extensive.

CrazyMan:
Don't tell me you believe that sheet.

It seems you're oblivious to what extremes religion could push its adherents to..

Eastern Lightning Christian Cult in China.
Shi Xinwang’s jaw clenched with emotion as he described how he recently discovered his wife of six years was a secret member of Eastern Lightning, one of China’s largest doomsday cults.
In his parents’ freezing bedroom cellar in their impoverished village in central China, the young man held up a video on his mobile phone of their five-year-old daughter in happier times, dancing and performing for his wife, Xiaowei.

“At first I thought she was just a normal Christian but from the internet I soon learnt that Eastern Lightning is a dangerous cult,” Mr Shi says. “In recent days she has told me to withdraw all our money and prepare to beg for Almighty God’s mercy because the world will end on Friday.”

In desperation he has secretly informed on her to the Chinese authorities. A nationwide crackdown has so far led to the arrest of about 1,000 followers of the quasi-Christian group, which also calls itself the Church of Almighty God.

[size=14pt]Eastern Lightning, one of China’s most aggressive millenarian sects, believes that Christ has been reincarnated as a woman in central China and is on a mission to lead the faithful in a decisive battle to slay the “great red dragon” of the Communist party[/size].

“China’s modernisation has been so fast and the government has ignored people’s need for spiritual fulfilment,” said Mr Shi. He added that his wife was happy and content when they moved to Beijing in 2006 in search of a better life and only rejoined the cult when she returned to their home village to look after her ageing father, who is also an Eastern Lightning devotee.

To aid in proselytising, Eastern Lightning’s songs are set to the tune of Communist anthems, such as “The Internationale”, and the group allegedly provides small loans or even sexual favours as inducements to prospective members. It is also accused of kidnapping and torture, according to government officials in charge of infiltrating its ranks.

“This religion is extremely hard to smash because they often only have single points of contact between separate levels,” one 33-year-old Eastern Lightning member of a cadre in the eastern city of Jinan, who is also a spy for the Chinese police, told the FT. “It’s actually very similar to the Communist party during its underground revolutionary phase [prior to 1949].

“It’s also a bit like pyramid selling,” he added. “The more people you recruit and more money you give to the church, the higher your status will be in heaven. If you don’t donate you don’t have a chance for promotion in this life either.”

In recent weeks there have been sporadic protests by groups of believers in remote parts of the country, calling on people to offer themselves up for salvation and taunting the ruling Communist party, which they say is about to be wiped out by God’s wrath.

[size=14pt]The party is especially sensitive because of China’s long history of millenarianism going back to the advent of the Buddhist White Lotus sect in the 13th century. The Taiping rebellion – a quasi-Christian uprising in the mid-19th century led by a man who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus – plunged most of southern China into a civil war that remains the bloodiest in history, with as many as 30m killed[/size].

More recently, Beijing launched a vicious crackdown in 1999 on the Falun Gong spiritual movement that has seen thousands of adherents tortured and imprisoned.
Eastern Lightning was founded in the early 1990s in central China’s overpopulated and dirt-poor Henan province, by Zhao Weishan, a former member of the radical Christian “shouters” sect from northeast China. He claimed to have discovered the living female Christ and told followers to throw away the Bible....

Read more here

Smfh.....

Well,thats catholic madness,not christianity.

this is a drama that happen every year, it is staged. Its nt real

musKeeto:
It seems you're oblivious to what extremes religion could push its adherents to..




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The Taiping Rebellion was thankfully crushed ruthlessly by the Pagan Manchu EMpire. however it weakened it i must say.

My Gods, these people are Kapampangan Tribespeople! imagine what their ancestors must think to see their descendants do this foolishness.

Front page bump....

Happy Easter everyone

Well...

Religion wud hv been better without extremist .... Shud we then say xtianity promote madness or suicide because some set of foolish that act crazy? No


Its true that the muslim prophet fight war but not terrorist act and there guides to it,

The funniest part is, the pastor that brainwashed them will not partake in it.

Awon oponu afofun gbemu

wazobia_for_u: Religion wud hv been better without extremist .... Shud we then say xtianity promote madness or suicide because some set of foolish that act crazy?

Actually, madness, yes