Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" 796
bhagwad writes "When a statue in Mumbai began to miraculously drip tears, huge crowds began to gather, pray, and collect the water in vials. Sanal Edamaruku has exposed such bogus miracles before, and when he was called in, his investigations showed that it was nothing more than a nearby drainage. The entire investigation was caught on tape. The priests were outraged and demanded an apology. When he refused, a case of 'blasphemy' was registered at the police station and they now want to have him arrested." In related news, today Kuwait's parliament "passed amendments to the Gulf state's penal code stipulating the death penalty for those who curse God, Islam's Prophet Mohammed or his wives." However, they made no change to the penalty for playing a joke national anthem at a sporting event.
Sounds like they'd be right at home in the GOP (Score:5, Funny)
Especially if they got elected in Oklahoma, Tennessee, or Arizona.
I say Mitt Romney picks that statue for a running mate to solve his Mormon problem. The only trick will be telling the two apart.
Re:Sounds like they'd be right at home in the GOP (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great. (Score:3, Funny)
Now we're outsourcing our stupid, too.
Re:Cradle of Civilization My Ass (Score:5, Funny)
protoman had to fornicate somewhere..
Re:Tennessee Theocracy (Score:5, Funny)
Now they're seeking to make abstinence-only education the norm and to define hand holding and kissing as sexual behavior. I wish my state would also ban dentistry so we can look like the fucking toothless yokels we are for letting shit like this pass.
Re:Blashphemy??? (Score:5, Funny)
Dude if you think that worshiping elephant gods is fucked up, you should come to America and see some really crazy shit. In my country people worship some sort of zombie god/king. Their religious icon of choice is an ancient Roman execution and torture device. A bunch of sub-sects of this religion practice ritualized cannibalism and blood drinking. They think that their zombie god is going to come back some day and kill everyone, and they think that this is a good thing because it lets them get to their promised land or something equally crazy. I swear I am not making this shit up. These people are craaaazy here. I'll happily take some elephant worshipers over these psycho zombie worshiping cannibals.
Re:Hey, it is india, a place (Score:5, Funny)
Logic and rationalism are French ideas. On that ground, I reject them utterly.
Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Funny)
I mean seriously, why would God create a brilliant analytical brain, only to shun its use?
Probably the same reason He created fossils for dinosaurs that never actually existed.
Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hook on Opiates (Score:5, Funny)
Do you think the Creator believes in a Creator?
Re:Fuck you, racist. (Score:5, Funny)
May Allah/God/Buddha bless you son.
And likewise, may Eagle's mighty wings carry you on your journey to new heights of peace and wisdom (or something like that). :)
Re:Hook on Opiates (Score:5, Funny)
If I remember correctly, someone once said that religion is the opiate of the masses
In cases like this it's more like meth than opium!
Re:Hook on Opiates (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hook on Opiates (Score:5, Funny)
Yo dawg, I heard you liked creators, so I created a creator to create creators who created their own creators, so your creator could be created by a creator.
/sorry
//creator
Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Funny)
How this comment looks to critical thinkers:
you accuse him of not being wet. How do you know that he doesn't have a PhD in staying dry
Re:Hopefully (Score:4, Funny)
People in general could stand to be more like Spock when it comes to debates.
They threw me out of the debate club after I started strangling people and defending my actions by claiming I was emotionally compromised.