On Friday, over a hundred people watched on as 10 devotees were nailed to wooden crosses.

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.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      767·
      9 months ago

      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@lemm.eeEnglish
        533·
        9 months ago

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

          • jimbolauski@lemm.eeEnglish
            925·
            9 months ago

            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.

            • Zip2@feddit.ukEnglish
              18·
              9 months ago

              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@lemm.eeEnglish
                211·
                9 months ago

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

            • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
              173·
              9 months ago

              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@lemm.eeEnglish
            111·
            9 months ago

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

            • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              9 months ago

              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@lemm.eeEnglish
                19·
                9 months ago

                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@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  5·
                  9 months ago

                  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@lemm.eeEnglish
                    18·
                    9 months ago

                    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.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

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

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.