(August 27, 2015 at 1:21 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:If we could only get them all to advocate this practice. Tourism might suck. Thanks for visiting, we've got your nuts here is this jar as a lovely parting gift.(August 27, 2015 at 9:37 am)mh.brewer Wrote: A self limiting religion is a Fantastic idea.
There was an early christian cult that cut it's dicks off, now what was it called?
Quote:The Valesians were a Christian sect that advocated self-castration. The sect was founded by Valens (not to be confused with the Roman Emperor of the same name), an Arabian philosopher who established the sect sometime in the second century AD.[1] They were notorious for forcibly castrating travelers whom they encountered and guests who visited them.[2]
They are known chiefly from the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, which describes how disciples of the sect were not allowed to eat meat until they had been castrated, because those who are not castrated might be tempted to lust by eating certain foods. According to the Panarion, their views on authorities and powers were similar to those of Sethianism or of the Archontics.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valesians
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