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iTwango t1_jaboslf wrote

I guess you're right. But I would be equally weirded out to be in the presence of the supposed actual bloody cross of Jesus for example. I went to a church in Belgium that claimed they had a vial with a bloody rag soaked in the actual blood of Jesus. They'd take it out and do a ceremony. That weirded me out too.

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whycuthair t1_jabtuca wrote

In some churches they keep relics of saints, that is old and decomposed body parts that once belonged to that "saint" and they pray to those things and kiss them. And they called others pagans man.. That's some vodoo shit right there.

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lorens05 t1_jabpurt wrote

Stranger still is we are supposed to take the supposed Jesus relics at face value. I mean, how can we really know if the rag has the actual blood of Jesus?

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SterlingArcherTrois t1_jadbsgy wrote

You’re talking about a religion here, blindly believing in insane stories with zero evidence whatsoever is literally a requirement for participation.

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Will12239 t1_jadjk0m wrote

Religion was a great way to transition from tribalism to modernism. It melded society into a cohesive unit. A natural phenomena, we would be in the stone age without it. To dismiss it is ignorant.

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Hambredd t1_jac9um3 wrote

I mean why? It's a bit of their god from the time he did the thing he's most famous for. It's not they are disrespecting his sacrifice or something

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Melodic_Survey_4712 t1_jacscbk wrote

But you could kill a deer, say god lives in its heart, then eat the heart raw out of your hand. They aren’t being disrespectful of the sacrifice but it’s still weird and creepy

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