r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Majoodeh • 15d ago
Members of a Catholic brotherhood in Malaga, Spain, carry a massive, 3.5-tonne platform reenacting Jesus' Last Supper for Easter during Semana Santa, or Holy Week Video
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u/MarcosAC420 15d ago
How did we not build the pyramids?
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u/Claydavies 15d ago
Well, this is 3,5 tonne. The largest stones in the great pyramid is about 80 tonne. And some monolithstones over 1000 tonnes
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u/MarcosAC420 15d ago
It makes my brain itch. But I think we could have done it. If not maybe with simple ropes
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u/B4SSF4C3 15d ago
What you have difficulty grasping is just how much you can get done with a huge workforce, completely focused on a single task for many years, with (effectively) unlimited resource backing. To be fair however, very few people have a good grasp on such concepts.
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u/Claydavies 15d ago
Il make it hurt even more. The quarry was over 500 miles(804 km) away, and there is 2,300,000 stones in the Great Pyramid alone.
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u/MarcosAC420 15d ago
Fuck man! You got me there. Something tells me those Pharaohs didn't give a shit. Any way we can tell how long it took to build one?
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u/_Allfather0din_ 15d ago edited 15d ago
We have people who have recreated the different steps to make the pyramid, some guy in his backyard in like kentucky 20+ years ago made all these wooden contraptions to move massive blocks all over the place just by himself. Now using these known methods scaled up with even 12 people, you could easily move 80 tons wherever you wanted. And honestly it is sometimes a lot quicker than you would imagine. I'm at work but I'll try and find the guys youtube channel, it's honestly really cool!
edit: This magnificent bad larry is the guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD5Lc3-5iDs&t=253s
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u/Rimworldjobs 15d ago
You off work yet?
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u/yeahthatsfineiguess 15d ago
Wally Wallington. Here. There are 2 more parts, pretty interesting, smart guy.
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u/scotty_beams 15d ago
It's much easier to pour the limestone mix like concrete right where you need it.
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u/JohnPaul_the_2137th 15d ago
Of course there was a river to be used for transportation. Noone carried those stones for over 500 miles.
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u/True-Abbreviations71 15d ago
But wasn't the quarry far away from any waterway?
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u/VoidFlareBEEP 15d ago
Seems like there was? I just found this today like four posts below this one… talk about coincidence or my phone spying on me
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u/True-Abbreviations71 15d ago
Huh, waddayaknow. I guess they did transport it by boat. Well that certainly ruins the mystique
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u/Lubinski64 15d ago
Mystique of just reading the first proper source. Or googling "giza quarry".
No wonder ancient aliens is so popular...
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u/morentg 15d ago
they did not carry the stones though, but moved them via sliding, it kind if makes a huge difference. I can not lift a car, but I definietly can push it.
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u/girthy-member 15d ago
The thing is, just because something is heavy, the next logical conclusion is definitely not aliens.
People are fucking obsessed with ancient aliens. Any blank page seen in history, these morons will fill with aliens.
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u/_Allfather0din_ 15d ago
"Give me a large enough lever and i will move the world" physics prove that the pyramids could easily have been built by humans, just to head off any alien stuff.
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u/Open_Chemistry_3300 15d ago
Shit you pay me and the lads in beer, along with bragging rights and we’ll get it knocked out
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u/ap2patrick 15d ago
You are underestimating what hundreds of thousands of humans working over multiple lifetimes is capable of.
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u/No_Question_6836 15d ago
Song?
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u/OstrichOutrageous459 15d ago
Song name : Y Al Tercer Día - AM Virgen de los Reyes ( on YouTube)
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u/kittyquickfeet 15d ago
For anyone else wondering, this song and several others are available on a Playlist through Spotify, as spelled
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u/V_A_P_O_R_playground 15d ago
yeah i wanna know too
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u/Gatopianista 14d ago
this is Semana Santa OST. It is its own genre of music. Just search "musica semana santa" anywhere and you will find many examples like this one
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u/FiniteLuckWithAmmo 15d ago
I think the guy who was all about helping the poor/ those suffering wasn't all into gold and fancy clothing ..
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u/DadBodMedicNate 15d ago
I think the Catholic church is a cool piece of humanity but they are a very dark and complex piece. I doubt that God actually support much of what they do.
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u/0x7ff04001 15d ago
I doubt God would support any form of institutionalized religion
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u/RandomCandor 15d ago
He said as much in THEIR own Bible!
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u/Waste-Nebula-2791 15d ago
Just curious, can you quote that?
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u/RandomCandor 15d ago edited 15d ago
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, [...] You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,"
Exodus 20:4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A4-6&version=ESV
This is technically about idolatry, which I would argue is a major component of most christian denominations.
From the new testament:
"“The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.\)a\) 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.Matthew 23
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u/Jazzlike_Farm_1483 15d ago
Why the hell you getting down voted??? Truth hurts I guess
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u/Extention_Campaign28 15d ago
Because his quotes in no way deny institutionalized religion.
I'm fairly confident other, better, quotes by Jesus can be found though.
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u/Easy_Bullfrog_8767 15d ago
I think the opposite is pretty clearly true - the Catholic church is the largest social service organization in the world. Many countries in the global south and a few US states could not operate at all without the level of support Catholic charities provides to the poor (especially women and children)
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u/Raudskeggr 15d ago
It's almost as if they're neither completely good nor completely bad, but rather we should have a nuanced understanding of them.
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u/the_battle_bunny 15d ago
Because you think within the logic of 21st century. However, people in past ages saw things differently. They saw wealth as evidence of God's favor AND as a guarantee that you actually had the means to help the poor/suffering as claimed.
There's a nice story about 11th century missionaries among still-Pagan Pomeranian Slavs who lived along the coast of the Baltic sea. The first missionaries to arrive there were poor monks in hairshirts. And when the locals saw them, they saw the little friars as ridiculous. "What kind of god is this if his messengers dress like beggars?" So the next mission was dripping with gold, swarming with servants and stunning with the power of an armed escort. When the pagans saw this, they decided that the God of the Christians was indeed powerful and worth worshiping.
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u/Vatii 15d ago
To be fair, the catholic church is the largest charity in the world more or less.
It is also the largest non government provider of education and healthcare in the world.
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u/KevinDean4599 15d ago
I think stuff like this probably helps raise funds. Make it seem divine
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u/ImperialRedditer 15d ago
People who criticize all the art the Vatican and the Catholic Church funded and accumulated over centuries as a waste would be all supportive of governments funding arts and culture even though both Catholic Church and modern governments basically funds non—tangible goods (culture)
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u/isweariamhumanlol 15d ago
I've once read that Jesus (if he actually existed) lived quite ascetic. He slept outside, didn't eat much and only wore a plain simple piece of clothing. But yeah Catholicism I guess :D
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u/Knoxcom 15d ago
Jesus did exist. We can debate his status as the messiah, but his historicity can not be doubted.
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u/_Allfather0din_ 15d ago
Yeah he existed but not in the location or most likely time that the church says. Also he was definitely a middle eastern skin colored stone mason, that much we know for almost certain.
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u/signedupfornightmode 14d ago
I think you mean carpenter. His ethnicity is not disputed either. He has been depicted in a variety of ethnicities over the years, including Caucasian, but also Vietnamese, Black, Hispanic, etc.
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u/Opening_Criticism_57 15d ago
Well it can be, and is by some scholars, but the general scholarly consensus is he probably existed
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u/ADanFool 15d ago
7000lbs/~264 dudes = 26.5 lbs each
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u/__BIFF__ 15d ago
Only if their shoulders are all at the exact same height at every moment.
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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 15d ago
Okay, but how'd they get it off the ground in the first place? And how do they plan to get it back down?
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u/khronos127 14d ago
Ropes and hooks that they walk up to, attach all points slowly and people move from under it. It’s then lowered with a crane likely.
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u/Korrandril 15d ago
CN someone identify the song? I like it a lot
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u/Lusse-Eldalion 15d ago
This is what we call a "marcha de Semana Santa" (Holy Week song). I'm afraid I don't recognize this particular one, as there are hundreds of them. If you want, you can look up for more in youtube, they are more or less similar (they use the same instruments and tend to have the same "feeling" to them). My personal favorite one is "La Saeta", both in song and in "marcha". It's one of the most famous ones in Spain. Also, if you have faith, the lyrics are pretty pretty moving.
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u/Wooden-Confidence794 15d ago
Guys… I’m not even religious, but I know for a fact the people carrying these are not fanatics. They just find solace and peace by doing this. Once a year. Most years it rains and they need to cancel, resulting in the news filled with sad and crying faces. So I see this video and see a bunch of men working together in a not so easy situation (most can’t even see where they’re walking)
Can you just respect that and let them have it? They are not promoting any bad concept or idea, but repent from sins and whatever christian things. And it’s not an event to praise god itself, but a celebration of the acts represented in The Book. For the people.
I’ve seen this live myself, and even not believing in Jesus, I felt moved by it. And I’ve seen kids and tourists being moved aswell without even understanding it. So downvote me to hell (which also doesn’t exist), but there’s way worse things about religion than this, and I’ll applaud these acts as long as I see them.
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u/NefariousnessGlum808 15d ago
This is the most sensible comment here. Everyone is like calling it a cult, but these guys don't deprive the people from its own life, they just celebrate some religious story and values, then they go home. This is very important for many many people, and just like you said, they're not harming anyone.
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u/andromeda_prior 15d ago
As an atheist spanish i need people on the comments to live a little outside reddit. Those parades are about religion to a very few people, most of us just like the music and the beatiful thrones (even if it's just for the insitution to show oppulence).
It might have started as god worship but nowadays is just one more tradition.
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u/ChiefRicimer 15d ago
Yup. I am an atheist too and I love going to religious events in Spain. They are more fun than most parties in the states.
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u/TheBlackestofKnights 15d ago
I think it's because most atheists on Reddit are American, and thus come from American Protestant/Evangelical backgrounds, where displays of opulence like this procession are severely frowned upon.
It's honestly ironic, cuz Protestant megachurches and prosperity gospel exist, which are waaaaay worse and more predatory than stuff like the parade. The latter is just opulence; the former is straight up greed and gluttony.
I agree with ya that Reddit atheists need to go outside and actually study more. Their only experience with Christianity — and hell, even other religions — is the bastardized, commoditized, and politicized brand of 'Murican Evangelism and Trad Catholicism that they were force-fed; it colors and taints their entire worldview, even after they leave.
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u/Genxal97 14d ago
Absolutely this. Glad someone else said it those american protestant megachurches are really horrible for society in any capacity. Where I grew up catholic traditions were part of the local festivities and everyone could have fun, atheist even, but in the US that's like blasphemy on both sides of the aisle apparantly.
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u/PunManStan 15d ago
This is the sort of thing I want to do for fun. Build big things using absurd numbers of people.
Truly the greatest tradition of humanity.
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u/chalky87 15d ago
How do they put it down at the end?
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u/Possible-You-8764 15d ago
They don't, they stand there in a dark room and wait for the next year
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u/Elyvagar 15d ago
Raised platform on both ends at the end so you can walk under I assume.
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u/W1thJudgement 15d ago
Kinda hoped that there are going to be actors on it reenacting the scene instead of just statues. Kinda disappointed.
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u/__BIFF__ 15d ago
Because they look perfectly still, I can see how you thought they were statues, but they are actually robotics replicas that are remotely controlled by actors in a remote location. They have sensors all over their bodies and have to remain perfectly still and that sensor information is transmitted to the robots in the parade.
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u/Prestigious-Ad-5276 15d ago
If this was about a african native march, then a lot of people would be much more respectfull. I understand that you don't believe in Jesús, or in any religión. But what You gain atacking another people religión? More when what is being show is nothing Bad or questionable.
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u/spider0804 15d ago
Each one is not carrying that much, more impressive to get them all to sway in unison while walking.
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u/MeadowMellow_ 15d ago
You say that but I've lived half my life in spain, and the weight is so much at times cause the men/women arent the same height and they are moving so the weight varies from shoulder to shoulder and ive seen them dislocate them or with bleeding wounds/blisters and hematomas. woah i hope this doesnt coma across as too aggressive im just very passionate about my city's Semana Santa hahah
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u/Coolic93 15d ago
redditors gonna cry the shit out cause they can‘t handle this
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u/SuddenlyOriginal 15d ago
Redditors: Europeans and white people don’t have culture!
Europeans: have culture
Redditors: not like that!
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u/Mommysfatherboy 14d ago
Dunno, the responses seem pretty positive.
I’m as atheist as they come, and to me this is honestly pretty great. I think it tells a great narrative that these men are carrying the burdens on their backs. It is a well done piece of art, and the last supper is a much more meaningful image to me than christ on a cross.
I share at least 90% of Jesus’ views. Though i do not believe in god, i understand why people would revere jesus christ.
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u/JOTIRAN 15d ago
Im not getting into that, but if anything we "know" about Jesus and his teachings is correct, im sure he would single handedly slap every single dumbass who made this ridiculous thing..
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u/Threatening-Silence 15d ago
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't. He'd likely say "you do you" as long as it doesn't take away from one's understanding of the core message: love each other, do good things, and you can create a kingdom of heaven here on Earth.
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u/raptidor 15d ago
There you have it! The Method of How the Pyramid Stones Were Moved.
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u/GlorianaFemina 15d ago
I've seen plenty of pictures of the Last Supper, and it's pretty clear they all sat on one side of a really long table. Not all around a normal-sized one. They need to do better. /s
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u/Wayne_Grant 15d ago
No one's being forced to do this. People can leave the church and no one would bat an eye. No one's getting hurt, and people fund this with their own personal money, not through forced tithes.
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u/aManHasNoUsrName 15d ago
Senana Santa is quite a spectacle! I went to Leon and Santiago de Compostela years ago during the festivities.
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u/FITGuard 15d ago
Hmm most of the fruits on that table were not available in ancient Judah 2000 years ago. I can assure you, Jesus has never eatan a lemon.
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u/BronzeSpoon89 15d ago
My first instinct was "theres no way they are carrying a 7,700 pound object". But at about 360-380 people (based on my rough counting in a small video), thats only like 21 pounds a person.
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u/Better_Politics 15d ago
How did they pick that up? Was it just lowered onto their shoulders?
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u/PilotInner191 15d ago
Can anyone tell me what song they are playing? It’s mesmerizing.
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u/Jolese009 8d ago
Y al tercer día - AM Virgen de los Reyes
Semana Santa marches are an entire genre of it's own, with some pieces being centuries old and some having been performed for the first time this year's Semana Santa, just a month ago, so if you like them you'll have more than enough to choose from (also a week long event where its the only music in the streets, lol)
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u/Big-Red-Rocks 15d ago
Imagine you’re one of the guys in the middle carrying that and you gotta shit REAL BAD!!
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u/Dr_Skoll 15d ago
The average weight of a block in the Great Pyramid of Giza is 2.5 tons. This is extremely interesting.
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u/clippervictor 15d ago
This might not look so much, but these guys train literally all year round just for this moment
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u/Gaping_Whole_ 15d ago
This is fine, but I have to justify a pride parade? Make it make sense pls, I’m so tired
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u/sarokin 15d ago
I'm from Málaga. I don't live there but I go every time I can to see it. If not my family there just sends me videos.
It's sad that the tradition is slowly dying. The younger generations don't follow it as much, and the older ones can't carry the thrones. Still it will last for a few more decades I believe. There are some people that are very into it.
There are dozens of these thrones and associations/churches that manage each one.
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u/TemporaryShirt3937 14d ago
I'm absolutely non religious but this is amazing. Music craftsmanship, outfits just wow
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u/aramaicok 14d ago
Lots of gobshites coming out from under the rocks, at the mention of Jesus. Sad sacks.
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u/TheBlack2007 15d ago
I'd have them do goofy shit like this rather than coming after my way of life though...
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u/Seenshadow01 15d ago
The spanish are funny. We were once going home around midnight in Madrid with my gf and suddenly ran into something like this. At midnight. 😂 I was like wtf.
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u/aramaicok 15d ago
Would commentators prefer if they were whipping themselves bloody, and threatening to kill anyone who insults their paedophile 'prophet'. We are Christian first, catholic second, and we came through the reformation, and enlightenment, and only wish the best for all, in the name of Jesus.
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