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India: 400 men cut off their testicles to 'get closer to God' following advice from 'guru'
Multi-millionaire religious "guru" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh persuaded around 400 of his estimated 50 million followers worldwide to cut off their own testicles to "bring them closer to God".
The details of the bizarre incident have only just come to light despite reportedly taking place in 2000 at a hospital run by Ram Rahim in India.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly accused Ram Rahim of grievous bodily harm and he is under investigation. He has previously been questioned over the murder of an investigative journalist in 2002 and has also been accused of sexual assault by female followers but has never been charged.
Navkiran Singh, who is the lawyer for Hans Raj Chauhan, the only castration victim so far to come forward, said his client and other victims believed they would become social outcasts if they refused to perform the "operation" demanded of them by Ram Rahim.
"They were told that only those who get castrated will be able to meet God," said Navkiran, in a report in the Daily Mail.
Ram Rahim, 47, dubbed the "guru in bling", is head of the socio-political organisation Dera Sacha Sauda and is estimated to be worth £26m.
The guru stars in a spectacular new movie, Messenger of God, in which he appears to walk on air, tear tree trunks in half and perform other miracles. Though 157,000 people are thought to have attended the film's premiere in Gurgaon, near Delhi, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the revelations have caused sales of tickets for the movie to dwindle dramatically.
Gurus are big business in India, where their endorsements can help political parties get elected, and where millions of people seek spiritual guidance every year. Sathya Sai Baba, who was said to be able to conjure ash from thin air, was worth an estimated US$7bn when he died.
Even after death, some gurus retain a hold over devotees. Ashutosh Maharaj, who was certified deceased by medical examiners last year, has had his body frozen by followers who apparently believe he is merely in a state of deep meditation called "samadhi".
Shit... I hope this takes off with other religions too. Give it a few decades and the world would be a much nicer and more reasonable place to live. :lol:
That takes some balls!
Quote from: Desdinova on March 04, 2015, 04:42:01 PM
That takes some balls!
And some foreskin as well, apparently. :eek:
At least their sub-par logic can't be re-born in to the gene pool.
LOL. Stupid religious freaks.
That is grotesque.
400 new contenders for the Darwin Award.
Win-win. Won't be raping anybody and the gene pool will be uncluttered by their offspring.
It's a good start.
Quote from: aitm on March 04, 2015, 08:14:36 PM
It's a good start.
sort of like a thousand lawyers in hell.
They'd be even closer if they were to incinerate themselves into nothing. But, losing a part of oneself is a step closer.
Say what you want, the Middle East may be violent but... man, Indians be fucking crazy. They blow the nuttiest Middle Eastern sects out of the water.
So ISIS isn't that crazy compared to Indians ?
Quote from: leo on March 04, 2015, 11:26:51 PM
So ISIS isn't that crazy compared to Indians ?
Crazy? No. Violent, certainly. But not crazy. Killing people for political and territorial gains, to exert fear in your subjects, and because your religion promotes it is not something particularly uncommon.
Cutting off your dick to get closer to God? That is a bit more out of the norm.
Religious nuts...
All I can say is after having had prostate cancer and having it removed; after it is more like hell than heaven. The desire is still there, and now impossible to be in heaven having sex. Why are religions so concerned with nudity and sex? If they can't enjoy the greatest human experienced what is left? Becoming a pervert like the Priests do perhaps. Solitary
So further from the vagina is closer to heaven? Gonna have to rethink my entire life on that one.... :think:
Quote from: Solitary on March 05, 2015, 10:41:37 AM
Why are religions so concerned with nudity and sex?
Fun is bad, apparently. Hence guilt. Without guilt there cannot be atonement. Without atonement there cannot be money in the collection plate or control of the peasant by their 'betters'.
Quote from: Youssuf Ramadan on March 05, 2015, 12:18:32 PM
Fun is bad, apparently. Hence guilt. Without guilt there cannot be atonement. Without atonement there cannot be money in the collection plate or control of the peasant by their 'betters'.
Exactly. Pleasure bad. guilt implied with pleasure. condemnation given for enjoying pleasure. Judgment by society for your actions, fear of going to hell the outcome.
Quote from: Shiranu on March 05, 2015, 12:17:33 AM
Crazy? No. Violent, certainly. But not crazy. Killing people for political and territorial gains, to exert fear in your subjects, and because your religion promotes it is not something particularly uncommon.
Cutting off your dick to get closer to God? That is a bit more out of the norm.
Once again you're making wild statements.. It was testicles, not dicks and who's to say? Perhaps they did get closer to the invisible, completely silent big spooky and we're just not in on the whole joy thing. :think:
:eek: How could anyone possibly know this would bring them closer to God unless they did it, and even then, how would they know they are closer to God and not the devil? Jesus Halliburton Christ religious people can be even dumber than they normally are. :fU:
You just don't pray hard enough..
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Hey, when I was religious I prayed like a motherfucker sonofabitch often and nothing happened.
Quote from: stromboli on March 05, 2015, 07:24:34 PM
Hey, when I was religious I prayed like a motherfucker sonofabitch often and nothing happened.
Me too. But something DID happen. I became an atheist.