Christians STILL burning witches

[TheStinger]

I note that our resident polytheistic pseudo philosiphiser hasn't answered about the practice of burning widows.

Now I don't agree with burning women who are accused of being witches but to an uneducated peasant it might make some sense, I can't see the logic in torching a dead blokes wife though

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave

will we see the same again, i bet, just when the situation is ripe so that some religious lunatic can use it for his/hers ends... such is life... a bit of religion, bit of nationalism, a bit of economics and between the three you have all the reasons in the world to do harm on massive scale...

Yup, we humans are pretty good at that.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by TheStinger
I note that our resident polytheistic pseudo philosiphiser hasn't answered about the practice of burning widows.

Humans are pretty good at selective memory and duplicity too.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by TheStinger
I note that our resident polytheistic pseudo philosiphiser hasn't answered about the practice of burning widows.

Now I don't agree with burning women who are accused of being witches but to an uneducated peasant it might make some sense, I can't see the logic in torching a dead blokes wife though

Money.

It mostly happened in wealthier families. When the relatives wanted to use the money the widow had rights over, they burnt her.

"Sati", strictly speaking, refers to spontaneous self-combustion due to extreme emotion.

Later, it refers to those women who committed suicide on their husband's funeral pyre because they could not bear the thought of living without their partner.

Even later, and now, it is commonly used to refer to women who were killed by their families, either for money or because they didn't want the hassle of maintaining her.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by aneeshm
"Sati", strictly speaking, refers to spontaneous self-combustion due to extreme emotion.

Later, it refers to those women who committed suicide on their husband's funeral pyre because they could not bear the thought of living without their partner.

Move on guys. All well known phenomena everywhere on earth - nothing to see here.

[Elok]

Now, now, we don't know what Hindu Culture does to women who don't choose to jump onto the funeral pyre.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Elok
Now, now, we don't know what Hindu Culture does to women who don't choose to jump onto the funeral pyre.

You don't know enough about the origins of Hindu civilization.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Elok
Now, now, we don't know what Hindu Culture does to women who don't choose to jump onto the funeral pyre.

That's because they all want to.

[Dinner]

That's a 48" pizza if I ever heard one.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Elok
Now, now, we don't know what Hindu Culture does to women who don't choose to jump onto the funeral pyre.

The origins of Sati as known today lie in the custom of Jauhar. I'd suggest you look it up.

[Kidlicious]

I'm sure it will make perfect sense then, NOT!

[Elok]

Originally posted by aneeshm
The origins of Sati as known today lie in the custom of Jauhar. I'd suggest you look it up.

Boooo-ring! Instead I think I'll start a "Hindus STILL burning widows alive" thread, using a single family of nuts in the least developed section of India's most bass-ackwards region as proof. Yes, that sounds like a much more intellectually rigorous exercise...

[BeBMan]

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Elok


Boooo-ring! Instead I think I'll start a "Hindus STILL burning widows alive" thread, using a single family of nuts in the least developed section of India's most bass-ackwards region as proof. Yes, that sounds like a much more intellectually rigorous exercise...

Can't do that, I'm afraid. There have been something like three or four "Satis" in the past 50 years, and at least one of them was a suicide.

[Arrian]

Well played, Elok.

Anyway, burning witches Witches are cool and stuff! I mean, Alyssa Milano is anyway...

-Arrian