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Would You Pay £750 To Be Crucified?

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frost

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The organizers of the Manchester Passion Play just axed a plan to raise funds for the production by charging people £750 for "the full crucifixion experience". COE clergy killed the scheme on the grounds that it was blasphemous.

By the standards of our group, their full experience would be pretty weak tea. From the description, the crucifees would be standing on a platform and holding pieces of rope, "for a couple of minutes". I suspect that there wouldn't be much nakedness, either.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...iser-cancelled-as-clergy-calls-it-blasphemous
 
It sounds fraudulent - your £750 would obviously not get you "the full crucifixion experience" by any means.

Interesting that crucifixion of the paying public should be considered blasphemous, but not of the actors involved.

Presumably it is not blasphemous if you are being paid or doing it for free?

Interesting that one of the promoters is a timber merchant.

Presumably they are happy to take people's money for witnessing the (non-interactive) main event?
 
frost said:
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By the standards of our group, their full experience would be pretty weak tea. From the description, the crucifees would be standing on a platform and holding pieces of rope, "for a couple of minutes". I suspect that there wouldn't be much nakedness, either.
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Sad, but true.
Thats why I like the fictional "passion play" in the 1989 movie "Jesus of Montreal" so much - it shows that a passion play "could" be conducted in a pretty different way, too, which may please far more "our common taste".
But I could not even imagine, what scandal would erupt if such a play would be realized...

On the other hand, for witnessing such a play (or even participating in it) I would surely pay a certain amount of money - if the actor playing the Jesus character would be such a hottie like young Lothaire Bluteau in this movie :)
 
This is not worth £750 - not even bound to the cross. Doesn't anybody bother to whip people with soft twine? There's nothing there. The Emperor's New Crux. :rolleyes::p

bobinder said:
Presumably it is not blasphemous if you are being paid or doing it for free?
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It's not blasphemous if you are pretending to be the actual god-man himself. It's only blasphemous if ordinary people do it. Or perhaps, it's because this event was proposed to fundraise for an actual religious themed crucifixion. If someone ran a crucifixion event at an Ancient World festival, would it get the same reaction?:spider:

thehangingtree said:
Et tu, Melissa???
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Sharkman said:
Tree, antiquus romanus, forum language is English!
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Jollyrei said:
This is not worth £750 - not even bound to the cross. Doesn't anybody bother to whip people with soft twine? There's nothing there. The Emperor's New Crux. :rolleyes::p


It's not blasphemous if you are pretending to be the actual god-man himself. It's only blasphemous if ordinary people do it. Or perhaps, it's because this event was proposed to fundraise for an actual religious themed crucifixion. If someone ran a crucifixion event at an Ancient World festival, would it get the same reaction?:spider:
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It's not blasphemous if you're pretending to be ordinary people like Dismas and Gestas - all very confusing...?
 
Paying 750 pounds (875 euros) for a few minutes on a cross, that is rather a lot. Perhaps not the act of 'trying out' the cross, but asking so much money for it, is more likely (from the viewpoint of the bishops) the blasphemy. Like the Merchants in the temple. Maybe it would be more convenient to do it on a re-enactement of the Spartacus rebellion.

But this event reveals the remarkable economic ties between the timber industry and the justice system. Let's flah back to Roman times. It would be bad for timber merchants that crucifixion would be abolished, so they keep lobbying to maintain it, and to come to as much as possible death sentences to the cross. The merchant leases the stipes and the patibulum to the justice department and gets a payment for every time it is used. The profit on the timber is enormous. When the crosses are empty, people can pay to live the experience for a few minutes. More profit! And it is safe, no one ever fell of! Nailing as a safety precaution?:devil:

What is also new!? Stewards on a crucifixion! Something to work on in a story?;)
 
Very little has changed Lox. Today in the US there is a private prison industry that lobbies against alternatives to incarceration for drug addicts and the like, for whom prison is an expensive waste of time. Also the prison guards' unions does the same as regards state-run prisons.
 
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