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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: An4ximandros on March 01, 2015, 09:11:18 am
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Okay, listen, I try to keep an open mind about this sort of thing. Religion is a very touch and personal thing but... how does mutilating your genitalia help someone grow closer to god?
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/men-cut-balls-off-believing-theyd-meet-god/948597/
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Some religions have been doing it to women for centuries unfortunately.
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I'm always torn on issues like these where people do nice things but for completely wrong reasons.
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Really, I don't know who's more of an idiot here. That guy or those 400 people who believed him. Good riddance, though. I propose a collective Darwin Award for the group, because they just demonstrated that they'd be unsuitable for reproduction anyway. I bet if he told them to jump off a bridge, they'd do that, too. That wouldn't exactly be anything new for established religions, but this guy is a self-appointed guru/movie star. If I went around telling people to cut their balls off to speak to God, I'd end up in a psych ward. This guy did pretty much that, only that he's been preaching things for a while before to get people used to this. It's not right to exploit peoples' gullibility, but I think that fewer would do this if people weren't so gullible in first place.
Some religions have been doing it to women for centuries unfortunately.
Not only to women. Ritual mutilation and castration is not unheard of for either gender. The mainstream religions are mostly doing away with it (except Judaism, which maintains circumsition for men), but tribal religons in Africa, for example, can still have people doing pretty grotesque stuff to themselves. Then again, those date back generations. This guy's cult does not, but apparently doesn't stop people for falling for it.
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I can pretty much guarantee that they'll at least see God in the actual moment. :shaking:
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I think the term is "False Prophet"