Comments on: 10 Weird Religious Practices

By: Sarees

Sarees — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:25:55 +0000

Following the blog for 4 days now. That to be exact . gotta mention that your posts are interesting and now how do i follow or subscribe to your blog?

By: Arnoc Grayle

Arnoc Grayle — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:30:12 +0000

I understand the blood part but from a different angle. To me is blood something VERY personal. It is mine and as much as my blood is mine is someone else’s blood his. I would not take tranfusion unless there is no alternative and I choose not to die yet. To me blood is far more than just the nice red stuff transporting oxygen and luring little vampires..

By: Beetle

Beetle — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:28:25 +0000

hoverFrog - aren’t the Satanists just another group of theists?

@PrimateIR — The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical work, not Satanic!

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:07:05 +0000

Dowry might be more an Indian tradition than just Hindu (like wearing a saree). I should know…I’m an Indian Christian and my parents paid dowry for both my sisters.

By: Cec

Cec — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:24:11 +0000

hospitals have a alternative to blood they can use for transfusions.

I don’t think so; I’m sure I’d have heard of such an alternative if it existed, being a doctor in training and blood donor both. Jehovah’s Witnesses suffering from blood loss are often prescribed saline infusions to prevent hypovolemic shock but this doesn’t prevent ischemia from lack of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, so eventually they will need blood transfusions or risk the most severe consequences.

As for children of Jehovah’s Witnesses in need of blood transfusions, the standard procedure here in Denmark is to simply revoke their parental rights and treat the child regardless of the parents’ religious beliefs. I don’t think you’ll find any doctor willing to stand back and watch a child bleed to death for any reason, least of all the religious beliefs of the parents.

~Cec.

By: TXatheist

TXatheist — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:03:54 +0000

Josh, luckily man hospitals have a alternative to blood they can use for transfusions. I forget the name but there is a solution that is available. The JW’s are wrong on this of course because the biblical requirement was to abstain from people for a short period of time if they were contaminated by blood and they somehow construe that to mean no blood transfusions.

By: PrimateIR

PrimateIR — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:44:45 +0000

hoverFrog – aren’t the Satanists just another group of theists?

From Princeton

# S: (n) prayer, supplication (the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)) “the priest sank to his knees in prayer”
# S: (n) prayer, petition, orison (reverent petition to a deity)
# S: (n) entreaty, prayer, appeal (earnest or urgent request) “an entreaty to stop the fighting”; “an appeal for help”; “an appeal to the public to keep calm”
# S: (n) prayer (a fixed text used in praying)
# S: (n) prayer, supplicant (someone who prays to God)

I guess if you are going to have an imaginary friend, the least you can do is talk to him

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:45:40 +0000

I still think that prayer is the wierdest religious practice of them all.

Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:16:36 +0000

interesting list……

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:32:28 +0000

I am shocked they only came up with ten. I can think of ten within Christianity right now; what about relics? While not restricted to Christianity alone, they are a fucking creepy concept.