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.
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.