As much as I don't condone needless violence, even against oneself...

You have a great point. They should be putting their money where their mouths are.

They can't even wash people's feet, despite all the superbowl commercials.

This is definitely closer to the spirit of the Christian religion than most other extreme manifestations.

Dunno why I remembered Frisians bricking people alive into dams in the Middle Ages.

Better themselves than others.

That's a large portion of the history of humanity.

Not over nothing, just for no results and under false pretenses

absolutely the correct take

But to what end? 5 minutes of fame and then back to exactly how it was before?

How else would he want to be remembered?

Feeding the poor?

Loving the different?

Starting a damn riot because someone charged interest on a loan?

Surely his favorite part of life was being tortured to death for those messages, so let's all wear a tiny gold version of what killed him and forgot all that commie crap he constantly talked about

/s

I think you hit the nail on the hand with this comment.

Thoughts and prayers!

Yeah, they're definitely crucifying the wrong people.

Yeah, but this guy doesn't have a magical world peace wand so he's doing this as a form of protest instead. Same principle as a hunger strike, or chaining yourself to a fence.

I think Jesus probably did exist, and he was probably a very successful cult leader who may have taken a lot of hallucinogens.

Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.

-Tacitus

35 times and so much peace accomplishment

Also nothing to do with race, what he did was pointless as well.

I agree with your sentiment, but I felt compelled to comment on one crucial element here: what he has been doing isn't a protest, but some form of a religious pledge. It just so happened that this year, he's praying for world peace. This is akin to some traditions in India and other parts where self-flagellation is part of religious ritual, but only for those who pledge themselves to it. It's touched upon in the article, but he's been doing it since the 1980's as thanksgiving for his survival in an accident. Some people just do it once, but some devote their lives to it, and it seems to me that he's one of the latter.

Whether or not his actions will lead to results doesn't matter, as far as I see it. He's already devoted to the bit, and only old age (and poor health) will likely stop him.

The backwards whackos are the religious people. Nothing to do with race. You'll see the same type of comments on any post about the latest crazy republican shit pulled in the US.

They also got the crucifixion wrong because you're supposed to pin the victim to the cross through their wrist bones between the radius and ulna to ensure they don't fall down and actually properly starve them to death for everyone to see.

If you pin through the hands the victim can just fall over and escape.

The Romans were very efficient in low effort highly visible displays of punishment.

Certain people are hung up on suffering without ever moving on to what the Easter story is about: redemption.