Warning: Having nails driven into your hands and feet...

... can hurt and may possibly kill you. Those folks interested in reenacting the Crucifixion in the most literal and painful of ways should get the proper shots and use sterilized equipment.

Just thought you might want to know.

Comments

[Nancy Reyes]

It is easy to mock, but Pampanga is a very poor region.

The best explanation of how this practice is based on a deep faith is found on the National Geographic "Taboo" series. They follow a man who "offered" fifteen years of crucifixion if his wife and baby survived a difficult childbirth.

Now, I don't think God requires such things, but at least he wasn't mocked by the filmmakers.

[Carl Olson]

Uh....I wasn't mocking it, Nancy. Relax.

[Raving Papist]

I've always been amazed and alarmed at the propensity of Filipino Catholics, en masse, to do such things. If anyone on the blog is looking for a graduate thesis topic, I would be very curious if there is some Platonic or neo-Platonic philosophic basis to this extreme penance voluntary undertaken by more than a few Christians in this Catholic Asian nation.

I admit freely that I don't know quite what to make of it.