A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace

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.

thorbot,

These whackos are so far gone they literally crucify themselves… talk about natural selection

BaroqueInMind,

They also got the crucifixion wrong because you’re supposed to pin the victim to the cross through their wrist bones between the radius and ulna to ensure they don’t fall down and actually properly starve them to death for everyone to see.

If you pin through the hands the victim can just fall over and escape.

The Romans were very efficient in low effort highly visible displays of punishment.

thorbot,

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    spujb,

    gonna post the same slur a third time once this is removed?

    jordanlund,
    @jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

    Abelist slurs aren’t allowed.

    spujb,

    key difference is they aren’t trying to actually kill the person. they even sanitize the nails apparently and presumably get medical treatment after.

    FfaerieOxide,
    FfaerieOxide avatar

    They also got the crucifixion wrong because you’re supposed to pin the victim to the cross through their wrist bones between the radius and ulna to ensure they don’t fall down

    This is an act of religious devotion, not an execution; for his ends he's doing it just fine.

    actually properly starve them to death for everyone to see

    Crucifixion killed by asphyxiation when the pinned prisoner could no longer support their own diaphragm. They didn't survive long enough to starve.

    BaroqueInMind,

    Thank you for your clarification. Can you please provide me resources where I can read up more on the details of Roman crucifixion in regards to it being used as a form of criminal punishment used by law enforcement?

    FfaerieOxide,
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    Can you please provide me resources where I can read up more on the details of Roman crucifixion in regards to it being used as a form of criminal punishment used by law enforcement?

    I could, but as I would have to look it up myself first I don't want to.

    Half a Denarius says @PugJesus would have some ideas thereabout; Rome seems to be a special interest about which PJ enjoys infodumping.

    That or there's always Wikipedia.

    PugJesus,
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    CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY CRUCIFY CRUCIFY CRUCIFY

    @FfarieOxide is correct, crucified prisoners typically died long before starving. You might enjoy this for some detail on attitudes and details of the punishment. Some religious commentary included, YMMV on that.

    Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
    Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

    Good luck next year, everybody. Maybe the 36th time is the charm

    ivanafterall,
    ivanafterall avatar

    Wouldn't world peace involve not nailing people to crosses?

    catloaf,

    Yeah, but this guy doesn’t have a magical world peace wand so he’s doing this as a form of protest instead. Same principle as a hunger strike, or chaining yourself to a fence.

    Zip2,

    It’s what Jesus would have wanted, I’m sure.

    Blackmist,

    “Fucking hell lads, I gave you the bread and wine thing. There’s no need for this!”

    JimVanDeventer,

    I think you hit the nail on the hand with this comment.

    givesomefucks,

    How else would he want to be remembered?

    Feeding the poor?

    Loving the different?

    Starting a damn riot because someone charged interest on a loan?

    Surely his favorite part of life was being tortured to death for those messages, so let’s all wear a tiny gold version of what killed him and forgot all that commie crap he constantly talked about

    /s

    jimbolauski,

    Jesus didn’t talk about using force or the threat of force to confiscate other people’s wealth and give it away.

    givesomefucks,

    Someone hasn’t been reading their book of fairy tales…

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple

    jimbolauski,

    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.

    turtlepower,

    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.

    jimbolauski,

    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

    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.

    gregorum,

    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.

    Zip2,

    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.

    jimbolauski,

    What does any of that have to do with claiming the cleansing the temple parable shows Jesus promoting communism.

    Zip2,

    Absolutely nothing. It was a reply to your first sentence.

    Clent,

    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.

    jimbolauski,

    Which rules did I not keep straight?

    bartolomeo,

    Did jimbolauski say something incorrect?

    derGottesknecht,

    Yeah, moved the goalpost from starting a riot to confiscating money and goods.

    CaptainSpaceman,

    Do you know what communism is? Or just what the McCarthyites told you?

    jimbolauski,

    Do you? I’ve never heard of read a bible verse about Jesus instructing his followers to seize the means of production.

    CaptainSpaceman,

    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

    jimbolauski,

    Damn, its almost like Communism was invented AFTER Jesus supposed time

    Thanks for providing more evidence Jesus didn’t espouse communists ideas.

    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

    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

    Fourth Plank: CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF ALL EMIGRANTS AND REBELS. (The confiscation of property and persecution of those critical - “rebels” - of government policies and actions, frequently accomplished by prosecuting them in a courtroom drama on charges of violations of non-existing administrative or regulatory laws.)

    CaptainSpaceman,

    Me thinks you dont know what property is in this context.

    Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

    Private property in the Manifesto doesnt mean theyre gonna take your toothbrush, ffs

    jimbolauski,

    Me thinks you dont know what property is in this context.

    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.

    Private property in the Manifesto doesnt mean theyre gonna take your toothbrush, ffs

    I never made a claim on what was or was not in Karl’s manifesto.

    kromem,

    Well after he’s dead they start throwing around the line about needing to “carry the cross as I do.”

    So people who believe that was accurately attributed certainly might think that’s what he wanted.

    poo,
    @poo@lemmy.world avatar

    Really sad people are hurting themselves over nothing.

    HobbitFoot,

    Better themselves than others.

    FfaerieOxide,
    FfaerieOxide avatar

    Really sad people are hurting themselves over nothing.

    Do you extend that to goths getting gauges or other body mods? Dude's getting what he wants out of this, I'm sure.

    spujb,

    Gaza is undergoing forced starvation and genocide.

    tsonfeir,
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    Cutting yourself might solve that.

    OutlierBlue,

    That’s a large portion of the history of humanity.

    A_Very_Big_Fan,

    Not over nothing, just for no results and under false pretenses

    Visstix,

    Well geez how much good has all that praying done so far?

    snooggums,
    @snooggums@midwest.social avatar

    Thoughts and prayers!

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