Wanna see something really creepy?

[NuclearNed]

http://www.mystatesman.com/gallery/...ies-jeweled-skeleton-relics-show-macab/gCDYg/


Slow day at work... I'm a religious history enthusiast. Through the magic of Google I somehow stumbled across this today. Enjoy!

 

[Rakehellion]

That's baller as fuck.

 

[vi edit]

The first one...

"I'm FABULOUS...even in death!"

 

[IronWing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aar%C4%ABra

 

[KB]

Looks like something out of Indiana Jones. Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[NuclearNed]

#6, 10, & 13 creep the hell out of me

 

[Jeff7]

#6, 10, & 13 creep the hell out of me

With those eyes stuck in there, 13 looks like "Yeah, fine, whatever, decorate the shit out of me. I just. Don't. Care."

 

[Braznor]

You guys never heard of an ossuary?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It is believed he would raise children who had died long enough for them to be baptized, so their souls would be able to enter heaven.

The idea behind this is just so lol.

 

[Jeff7]

You guys never heard of an ossuary?

Sometimes I get this funny idea that our species is really screwed up in the head.

 

[WelshBloke]

Catholics are wierd.

 

[BoomerD]

Yarr...now dem be some graves worth a-plunderin!

The idea behind this is just so lol.

Sounds like a Mormon thing to me...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/16/explainer-how-and-why-do-mormons-baptize-the-dead/

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Sounds like a Mormon thing to me...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/16/explainer-how-and-why-do-mormons-baptize-the-dead/

I don't have an issue with it if it's there by design, see

For Mormons, baptizing the dead solves a big theological problem: How do billions of people who never had the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ – including those who lived before Jesus walked the earth – receive salvation? By baptizing the dead, a practice known as posthumous proxy baptism, Mormons believe they are giving every person who ever lived the chance at everlasting life. That includes Muslims, Hindus, atheists, pagans, whoever.

Sounds reasonable by their own standards. In their case, it can be called an adaptation/revision of Christianity and (without knowing that much about Mormon faith) perhaps even a unique trait of their own sect. Catholicism, however, has a long history of unbaptized babies laying around in purgatory. If the Catholic Bible itself made exceptions that would be one thing, but for some random saint among hundreds of saints to come along and say "Hey, I found this loophole in God's system and I'm going to exploit it with the power of necromancy, ain't I a great Catholic?" is just comedic.

 

[Imp]

That's baller as fuck.

Only a peasant would believe that.

 

[NuclearNed]

You guys never heard of an ossuary?

that's quite awesome in a very deranged sort of way. Now off to Google Images for all the ossuary pics I can find...

 

[SagaLore]

<snip> Catholicism, however, has a long history of unbaptized babies laying around in purgatory. If the Catholic Bible itself made exceptions that would be one thing, <snip>

Nah you can pay to get people out of purgatory. http://ivarfjeld.com/2011/11/04/catholic-author-raises-two-million-to-get-souls-out-of-purgatory/

 

[edro]

Nah you can pay to get people out of purgatory. http://ivarfjeld.com/2011/11/04/catholic-author-raises-two-million-to-get-souls-out-of-purgatory/

And they wonder why religion is on the decline.
Even as a 5yo kid, I knew Catholicism was messed up.

 

[Captante]

Looks like something out of Indiana Jones. Truth is stranger than fiction.

I was thinking Elder Scrolls! D:

 

[NuclearNed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_saints#/media/File:Katakombenheiliger_pankratius.jpg

"Smell my finger..."