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Filipino woman worships green statue for 4 years, finds out it is animated character Shrek (www.scmp.com)

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Woman treats green ogre figure with great reverence; says she will continue to worship ‘kind-hearted’ cartoon statue

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[–] nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

She isn't worshiping Shrek any more than someone praying at a cross worships wooden plus signs. Stupid article.

[–] allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yup. No more stupid than someone worshiping a guy who lived 2K years ago whose mother had an affair and blamed a magical sky fairy.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I doubt you understood them. Buddhists don't worship Buddha idols or anyone: Buddha considered such devotion or worship unenlightened/unskilled & instead encouraged self-reliance in one's journey to nirvana. They're more contemplating the enlightenment they identify with Buddha as they meditate on their own way to achieve that. A Shrek figure may work just as well for their purpose: enlightenment to them means shedding ego & not letting vicissitudes/nuisances cling them to samsara.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Idk. It says worshiped right there in the title.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Amitabha

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's a good point. I guess some later schools do practice devotion to Buddha whereas earlier Buddhism might have only regarded the qualities of Buddha as inspiration. It's definitely not part of the Buddhist path in early Buddhism.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Being honest, it was very common at the time to have Zeus' or Jupiter's babies.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

I thought a '+' sign was doubly symmetric.