http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtKOPvbc_6c&eurl=http://www.bombislam.com/page1.htm

?

that is more than child abuse =/

Probably for the same reasons as these guys. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellants)

Another benefit of religion: Insanity.

Read it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Faith)

What? Religious people are crazy?

I never would have guessed.

i used to watch the Ji tong go at it down the street at the daoist temple, cutting their own heads with knives and hiting themselves in the head with spiky maces.

all whilst in a trance.

the guys with the big drums, the firecrackers going off, the blood spraying everywhere, loads of mental naked guys covered in blood dancing around in a trance cutting their tounges with knives.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e65hpzpZC90

like this video but more violent. these were REAL hardcore taiwanese taoists going at it with knives so crazy they have to be held down by the little priest guy to stop from killing themselves.

Thats just fucked up