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Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 12:24 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26815298
Quote:But in 2012, four years after his televised encounter with the fakir, a steady drip of water from the toe of a statue of Christ genuinely did, he believes, put his life in danger.
Immediately hailed as a miracle, hundreds of Catholic devotees and other curious residents flocked to the shrine in a nondescript Mumbai suburb to watch the hypnotic drip. Some even drank the droplets.
Drops of water on the toes of the statue
Edamaruku was challenged to investigate and so he went to the site with an engineer friend and traced the source of the drip backwards. Moisture on the wall the statue was mounted on seemed to come from an overflowing drain, which was in turn fed by a pipe that issued from a nearby toilet.
The "miracle" was simply bad plumbing, he said.
It was then that the situation turned ugly.
They can just arrest me without a warrant and keep me in prison for a long time”
Sanal Edamaruku
He presented his case in a febrile live television debate with representatives of Catholic lobby groups, while outside the studio a threatening crowd bearing sticks had gathered. He claims they were hired thugs.
For some Catholics the veracity of the miracle is no longer the point. Edamaruku, they say, insulted the Catholic church, by alleging the church manufactured the miracle to make money, by claiming the church was anti-science and even casting doubt over the miracle that ensured Mother Theresa's sainthood.
In the following weeks, three police stations in Mumbai took up blasphemy cases filed against him by Catholic groups under the notorious Section 295a of India's colonial-era penal code.
Section 295a was enacted in 1927 to curb hate speech in a restless colony bristling with religious and communal tensions. It makes "deliberate and malicious" speech insulting to religion punishable with up to three years in prison and a fine. However, some say it is frequently abused to suppress free speech.
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RE: Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 12:45 pm
The dumb asses were drinking toilet water.
I am not too surprised...
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RE: Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 12:47 pm
(June 3, 2014 at 12:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Shouldn't he get a medal for that?
Looks like they want to attach it to his forehead.
It's mind-boggling to see what religious indoctrination does to people. They're incensed that this guy wrecked their fantasy. You know, the one where god makes a fucking statue's toe drip water? Because if that's not a sign from the almighty creator, I just don't know what is!
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RE: Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 12:52 pm
(June 3, 2014 at 12:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Shit. That's my goal in life. Telling idiots that they live in a fantasy land.
Heh. Just make sure to watch your back if you're ever in Moronville, India.
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June 3, 2014 at 12:59 pm
There are two places on earth that I have no desire to see. One is the whole fucking Middle East.... the other is fucking India.
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RE: Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 3:16 pm
I've been following this story for a while.
It's amazing what these religious idiots can get away with.
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RE: Indian Myth buster can't go back to india because of catholic persecution.
June 3, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Even in India, drinking toilet water can't be a good thing . . .
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