Woman treats green ogre figure with great reverence; says she will continue to worship ‘kind-hearted’ cartoon statue
Utah family worships a portrait of Obi Wan Kenobi thinking it’s Jesus.Is that worse or better than the other fake portrait of Jesus I saw growing up Catholic? The white, blue eyed Jesus that you’ve probably seen somewhere.
That’s nothing. You guys would love all the funny things my wife does as superstition.
Funny: hangs bell in front of door to ring before going in or out of the house to scare ghosts.
Funny annoying as fuck: beds must align south…except she doesn’t know her south from apple juice.
Extremely annoying, house must face south… But that one has a big yard with fruit trees I like and a nice garage! This one is on a hill but it’s facing south, there’s a coyote in the back under 100ft tall pine trees. No luck ever removing those trees or planting any of our own. House actually faces nort West… But okay faces south, good.
Superstitions people. I have 0 tolerance. Somehow I married this one.
This is how I view all religion, so this is fine.
Clearly it was working. If Shrek wasn’t answering the prayers I think it would be obvious.
It’s not a Buddha statue, or based on one. It’s based on Bodai, a monk from China. Actual Buddha statues are slim figured.
Shrek isn’t the worst idol.
He’s grumpy but he’s got layers, and is fairly accepting. And I think we can all relate to how far he’ll go for a bit of peace and quiet.
Honestly that’s a far better idol than most religions.
What? Like some kind of onion creature?
Like he came from a 3D printer.
I’d liken him more to a parfait
Do other people not pray to Shrek daily?
I’m not devout, it’s only once every 2 or 3 weeks for me.
Objectively not the dumbest religion I’ve ever heard of.
Shrek is love, Shrek is life.
Onions!
I mean… there are worse options
Shrek is love Shrek is life Shrek is god
The ears are literally the only thing making it Shrek.
Shrek is just Buddha with weird ears.
Well, I’d argue that Shrek’s normal face is exactly halfway between Buddha and Sexy Human Shrek.
As a buddhist, that statue is most definitely something I want in my home.
And? Why stop now that you know how good he is. Shrek provides for everyone.
The title literally says she was going to keep doing it.
Ah, I didn’t notice that. Well, all is good then. Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
She isn’t worshiping Shrek any more than someone praying at a cross worships wooden plus signs. Stupid article.
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.
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.
Idk. It says worshiped right there in the title.
Amitabha
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.
Being honest, it was very common at the time to have Zeus’ or Jupiter’s babies.
I thought a ‘+’ sign was doubly symmetric.
That is nothing, billions of muslims worships nonexisting god, billion+ christians worships same nonexisting god and milions jews worships same nonexisting god while killing eachother without remorse.
Maybe their god wanted some peace and quite and thought that if they were to annihilate each other, that might lead to fulfilling the requirement.
That explains why we don’t work on Saturdays, nothing good can come of it.
