Jesus is alive!
By Thomas73
@Thomas73 (1467)
Switzerland
March 6, 2007 6:49am CST
...but he now lives in Karachi and his magic won't work.
I found this amazing piece of news below and wanted to share it with you.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father's two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.
Abdul Rehman's family say he is mentally ill and has never been able to cope with his father's death, police said on Saturday.
"He dug up the corpse on Thursday night after he had hijacked an ambulance and its driver at gunpoint and took it to his home," Ghulam Murtaza, a duty officer at Ferozabad police station in the southern city of Karachi, told Reuters.
Police raided the house on Friday after a complaint from the trust that owned the ambulance and from Rehman's brother.
"He kept the corpse, which was nothing but a skeleton in his bedroom, for well over 12 hours. He escaped when we raided the house. We have buried it again," Murtaza said.
Rehman had also kidnapped a vagabond who slept in the graveyard and locked him up at home, police said.
"He told us he saw Rehman chanting magic spells and pouring rose water on the corpse to bring it back to life and was crying bitterly," Murtaza said.
Rehman faces a year in jail for defiling a corpse, police said.
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Another poor deluded soul who thought that the Lazarus story was real...
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11 responses
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Mar 07
That is rather a sad story, poor guy must have really missed his father! Obviously this man needs medical help not just a jail sentence.
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@michelledarcy (5220)
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6 Mar 07
Perhaps the bible should be banned for encouraging this kind of behaviour. After all they ban other forms of literature for being a bad influence.
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
11 Mar 07
I like your appreciable sense of humor about this story, Thomas. It is rather sad though..grief does alot of things to a person, having been there I know first hand the crazy things it can do to the mind.
Well, at least the police got him..he'll be able to get help and possibly pull out of his grief-induced illogicality -- or temporary insanity, whatever the case is.
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@Profetu (1253)
• Romania
6 Mar 07
I can't beleive that people today still beleive that !!!
In a modern society..where "logic" and actually THINKING with that thing we all call a BRAIN ...we once again meet the medieval way of thinking!!How long will it take for people to finally realise that the bible is just another history book for mass manipulation??!!
Well..what else can I say at this one,Thomas?Except the fact that I am glad we don't live in the Inquisition anymore...or else some of us would be already turned into ashes.
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 07
Maybe the poor man had more or less been driven to temporarily lose his mind due to the pain he'd endured for so long. The human mind works in strange ways at times.
And yes, a few centuries ago you, me, and a few others here would have been the main attraction of an inquisitorial bonfire. ;)
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@Profetu (1253)
• Romania
7 Mar 07
I just remembered that we also had a "jesus is my son...and he will "do stuff" when will grow up" phenomenon.That was hillarious.Mother was dyed and spoke with the accent of those who live in the ghetto's here.Now i'm not judging here...but still.Poor little dude , he was a little frightened and was repeating on and on "If my mother tells me to...i will".Long live
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@jaypeemanuel (1005)
• Philippines
10 Mar 07
Lazarus was raised by Christ. Well this young man was not Jesus. That's the big difference.
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
11 Mar 07
I only linked this story to that of Lazarus because it was the first thing that came to mind when I read it. As the events took place in India, it is improbable that this man retrieved his father's corpse to re-enact the legend.
He was a poor mentally-impaired and hurt person who missed his dad very much, and who did something most of us wouldn't think of doing. Pain can make you do silly things, mostly when your reason is already ailing. I really feel sorry for him.
And I am against banning books -- or banning in general -- and in favour of educating people to make them free-thinking, responsible adults. Repression is never a solution.
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@jaypeemanuel (1005)
• Philippines
11 Mar 07
Well, i can't push you to believe what the bible says. I made a reaction for your comment considering Lazarus' rise was a myth. Anyway, i'll have to agree with your reason on banning books. Responsbility is the key.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
29 Mar 07
Why do people insult God? because deep down they know he'll forgive them.. takes a huge amount of faith to believe everything that is, came about through chance.. especially when even one of those said chances have been deemed by mathematicians to be impossible to have occurred. But hey, who am I to interfere with someone's blind fatih, and not only blind faith but highly challenged faith as there are no tranisitional life forms, living nor fossil. Don't forget, the bird was discovered beneath the Archaeopteryx in the geoplogical layers, so the Archaeopteryx is not the forerunner to the bird as was supposed. Darwin expected millions, even trillions of transitional lifeforms, both living and fossil.. go figure..
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
31 Mar 07
Flower..Thomas hasn't insulted God. He was joking. Read his thread, even though people've said many things which may verge on insulting..like the word 'ignorant' for example, he's kept on joking, while politely telling him he just doesn't believe in that deity.
Is that so wrong?
I'm just pointing it out, hun. I'm not mean'n to start a fight or anything.
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@Springlady (3986)
• United States
30 Mar 07
Yes! Jesus IS alive and He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty! He is alive and well and He will reign forever!
All glory, honor and praise be to the Lord forever and ever!
@lovesfreedom (1245)
• United States
1 Apr 07
Oh Thomas, you and I know that we are on different ends of this spector, but we respect each other and our opinions.
I find this to be so sad. This poor man must really be lost without his father, which may speak of close and loving relationship or possibly that he was so dependent on his father that he knows not what to do without him.
Whether he was following the teachings in the bible or not, obviously, he had some kind of desparate hope that he would be able to succeed in bringing his father back to life. I do feel for him. He obviously needs help and lots of it.
How sad not to be able to go through a grieving process because you have a mental illness that will not allow you to accept what just is.
I question the part about defiling a corpse though. I may be wrong, but defiling means doing deplorable things doesn't it? With only the article to go by, it sounds to me that he had no intention of defiling it, he was hoping to bring his father back.
Sad, so very sad.
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
1 Apr 07
You're one of the very few believers who understood my humour and realised that, despite the title, this discussion had nothing to do with religion, but was instead about a poor man who was already mentally unstable and was tipped over the edge by grief. As the events took place in India, I doubt that this has got anything to do with the Lazarus legend anyway.
Cheers.
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@krayzee (1160)
• Romania
12 Mar 07
I may be wrong but I really don't get what this story has to do with Jesus. Where does it say that Jesus has ressurected Lazarus by pouring rose water on the corpse and chanting magic spells?? There probably are some forms of so called magic who says rose water is miraculous or something but the story really has nothing to do with Jesus or anything Christians believe in for that matter.
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