2006-09-04 09:38:55 · 17 answers · asked by Axel ∇ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Snake and scorpion handling.
2006-09-04 09:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing that really gets me is transubstantiation; is it really so wise to hold as a belief that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are actually Jesus' body and blood? I remember in Sunday school when we were taught this one girl was really disturbed and wondered if she were a cannibal. That sums it up for me right there-when you make a beautiful metaphor a literal thing you always detract from the real meaning of it.
2006-09-04 09:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by theonlymonsterdog 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Myth in Yanomamo society
- Women came from a fruit called "Wabu". While picking vines, one man noticed a fruit with eyes, tossed it on the floor and it became a woman with a large [Bleep]. She eventually caught the men"s attention with her large and hairy [Bleep], and they all copulated with her and produced many daughters, and everyone slept with the daughters too.
http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/612.html
The Yanomamo are a tribe in Brazil. The link provided also gives brief descriptions of their other myths (the "Bleeping" is mine. I didn't want to offend anyone). In the society that I grew up in, this is considered weird but I understand that this is their way of life and it is perfectly normal beliefs for them.
2006-09-04 10:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
prolly scientology and some of the real beliefs of Jehova's witnesses (what with the tablet in NY and all) but as your list shows, every religion has things in it that are difficult to believe- even the most mainstream religions. That's where faith comes in.
2006-09-04 09:45:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I guess the wierdest AND stupidest religious beliefs would include (but not limited to):
* a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
* solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
* talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
* shepherd staff turning into an asp
* demons chased out of people and into pigs
* friendly spirits
* evil spirits
* walking on water
* multiplying loaves and fishes
* food falling from the sky
* conception by a ghost
* people raising from the dead
* the sun stopping in its tracks
* parting seas
* people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
* world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
* creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
* magical tree of knowledge
* god speaking from a burning bush
* ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
I find it offensive that in our society, the irrational, deluded people that believe in that stuff are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-04 09:41:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
i do no longer think of there is something incorrect with you! i think of you have have been given it completely precise! i became raised in an fantastically evangelical church, and have because come to have faith greater alongside the traces of you. i'm a non secular guy or woman, yet i don't experience something while i visit church (a minimum of christian ones...it incredibly is approximately to this point as my exploration has led me). i think of that's totally useful which you think of approximately and question the training of the church homes you attend. i think of you will possibly merely be going for the period of the motions in case you joined a church and merely went alongside with it blindly. I say, shop looking and shop on with your coronary heart. you are able to discover an prepared faith that matches you, or you are able to (like me) discover that prepared faith isn't for you. i think of that's greater approximately doing what's precise & no longer harming others than something.
2016-09-30 08:23:36 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That has to be the one about getting a bunch of virgins after you die for intentionally killing yourself and innocent people.
It's our last laugh when they find out they are wrong and they can't do anything about it.
2006-09-04 10:11:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People that "speak in tongue", and people eating the flesh of enemies killed. I don't know what they are called but that has got to be the strangest and weirdest! :(
2006-09-04 09:45:53 · answer #8 · answered by peg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shrinking the skin off the heads of the people you kill and wearing them as jewelry to keep their spirits from haunting you.
2006-09-04 09:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I heard there are people that worship chairs, and women that sew up their genitals.
Also, I know a person who thinks that Jesus is his brother and that God is his father. Like, Biologically.
THAT'S weird.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-09-04 09:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋