Is it me or is there something gruesome and Voodoo about having bits of bodies being venerated like this?
by Prestigious_Talk6652
Is it me or is there something gruesome and Voodoo about having bits of bodies being venerated like this?
by Prestigious_Talk6652
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>Is it me or is there something gruesome and Voodoo about having bits of bodies being venerated like this?
If you think that’s Voodoo, Wait till you hear about your man who came back from the dead.
They’re historical religious artefacts. Like bog bodies or mummies that we display in museums
I dont think its gruesome or voodoo. I mean part of it was that it was how monasteries made their trade, but they were also serious important religious objects. For example by one account in the Annals of Ulster in 1539, O’Neill and O’Donnell swore alliance over the relics of Donegal Friary. So they had more than just a purpose of veneration.
Plus comparing to nowadays, in the medieval period saints were much more important than today.
You think that’s weird in Indonesia they mummify their dead relatives and live with them for years, then dig them up periodically to dress them up.
They’ve Oliver Plunkett’s (barely) mummified head in a church in Drogheda, it’s normally kept inside the most unbelieveably tasteless gilded shrine but they occasionally take him out for a jolly, they took him out to a field outside the town in 1979 so the Pope could pray at him.
Just say no to Catholicism, kids.
Voodoo is accepted as within Catholicism and integrated in many areas!
Looks like we invented first as well!
Éire abú!
I work in a particular food service spot in Kildare’s town square.
These events are making me yearn for the sweet release of death.
We’ve seen in recent years what rubbish people will believe in the face of more evidence that humanity ever had access to before.
So can you imagine the clap trap that must have done the rounds back then.
We are human. The default position of uneducated people, historically or during Covid/Trump, is to ‘believe’ in magic.
is the ritualistic cannibalism not gruesome and voodoo enough for ya?
Was St.Brigid real? I always thought she was a catholicisation of Brigid, the old Pagan god.
Upgraded to a class 2