A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
On Friday, over a hundred people watched on as 10 devotees were nailed to wooden crosses, among them Ruben Enaje, a 63-year-old carpenter and sign painter. The real-life crucifixions have become an annual religious spectacle that draws tourists in three rural communities in Pampanga province, north of Manila.
The gory ritual resumed last year after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. It has turned Enaje into a village celebrity for his role as the “Christ” in the Lenten reenactment of the Way of the Cross.
Ahead of the crucifixions, Enaje told The Associated Press by telephone Thursday night that he has considered ending his annual religious penitence due to his age, but said he could not turn down requests from villagers for him to pray for sick relatives and all other kinds of maladies.
Jesus didn’t talk about using force or the threat of force to confiscate other people’s wealth and give it away.
Someone hasn’t been reading their book of fairy tales…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple
It’s always amusing when people who are against religion pretend to be experts.
He litterly tells them after dumping out their money “Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.”
Jesus didn’t take their money, he told them to take their shit and leave.
As opposed to all the Christian denominations, sects, cults who can’t even agree on what the facts were, or which of the books, letters etc are to be included in their “correct” version on the bible.
What does any of that have to do with claiming the cleansing the temple parable shows Jesus promoting communism.
Absolutely nothing. It was a reply to your first sentence.
It’s more amusing to see how ignorant the religious are of their religion. Especial monotheists. You’ve only got the one god and you still can’t keep the rules straight.
Did jimbolauski say something incorrect?
Yeah, moved the goalpost from starting a riot to confiscating money and goods.
Which rules did I not keep straight?
And it’s even more amusing when the person trying to point out a mistake, didn’t get it right in the first place. They never said he took their money, but he did lose it and flip some tables. You know, a “riot over charging interest”, to paraphrase what they wrote. In any case, it’s a fucking fairy tale. Dumbledore dies, get over it.
They made the claim Jesus preached communism. You know forcefully taking property from others for the “greater good”.
Jesus didn’t flip the tables because the money changers changed their rate, they were exploiting people in the name of religion.
The people complaining to Jesus in the first place were complaining, in part, about the exploitative rates they were charging (usury). In the version of the story told in the gospel of John, Jesus fashions a whip out of his sandal and a nearby tree branch and some broken clay bits he gets off the floor and whips the shit out of the money changers as he chases them from the temple, lol.
Even the New Testament has some crazy parts.
Do you know what communism is? Or just what the McCarthyites told you?
Do you? I’ve never heard of read a bible verse about Jesus instructing his followers to seize the means of production.
Damn, its almost like Communism was invented AFTER Jesus supposed time
But even then, seizing the means would be more Socialism than Communism. Marx wrote as much, too, that Socialism is the stepping stone away from Capitalism and towards Communism
Thanks for providing more evidence Jesus didn’t espouse communists ideas.
Here is the 4th plank of the communists party, as written by your buddy Karl in the communists manifesto. You should probably read the man’s works before you make claims about what he said
Me thinks you dont know what property is in this context.
Private property in the Manifesto doesnt mean theyre gonna take your toothbrush, ffs
Don’t assume because you don’t know what you’re talking about that others don’t as well.
It’s still seizing of someone’s property which you claimed is not part of Karl’s communism.
I never made a claim on what was or was not in Karl’s manifesto.