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Indian police have discovered a stash of hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones and arrested a gang for allegedly smuggling them to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries.

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    evelyna1 year, 2 months ago

    What is the crime here? They are not using them for transplants.

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      PsychoHosebeast1 year, 2 months ago

      By all means... desecration of the dead. Let's legalize it.

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      coolbeka1 year, 2 months ago

      Vandalism is crime

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      junda1 year, 2 months ago

      Sound interesting ,monasteries?

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        gd0100181 year, 2 months ago

        well, once you take an organ out of a body, I suppose it's dead as well, so consider the eventualities...

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          RabidBanana1 year, 2 months ago

          thats pretty odd....

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            WCFIELDS1 year, 2 months ago

            "...human thigh bones and skulls were used by followers of a Tibetan school of Buddhism."

            More Religious foolishness.

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              WCFIELDS1 year, 2 months ago

              Hey, do you suppose these morons stick the bones down the front of their pants to impress the opposite sex?

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              not2needy1 year, 2 months ago

              Why would Monks want to drink from a human skull, something stinks with this!!Sounds more like a satanic ritual than a religious one!

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                schillinfl11 year, 2 months ago

                Satanic rituals are religious.

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                  WCFIELDS1 year, 2 months ago

                  "...something stinks with this!!"

                  Another religious person that knows little or nothing about religion.

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                    Mowens19841 year, 2 months ago

                    Yes WC, as we all know, everyone who is 'religious' steals bones and tries to win over the ladies with them.

                    Your sarcasm only shows how ridiculous your logic is there. You make very, very gross generalizations.

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                  Beowulf2101 year, 2 months ago

                  Do you want strangers taking your bones and/or the bones of your relatives and using them as blow-horns and/or vessels to drink from? That is highly disrespectful (even in the eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ / God Almighty).

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                    ciera-marie1 year, 2 months ago

                    This is a very good argument for cremation.

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                      FieldMouse1 year, 2 months ago

                      I agree. It's really disrespectful to anyone of a diff. "religion". do they ever not think of themselves?

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                        FieldMouse1 year, 2 months ago

                        And besides it's rude 2 disect others bodies 4 bones & stuff

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                          Beth3161 year, 2 months ago

                          They are more than welcome to my bones. Do we worship an eggshell after the egg is gone? Same with the human body... just a way for the soul to travel around. The body is a shell.

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                            Beowulf2101 year, 2 months ago

                            Though the body is what you would call "a shell" and/or what others would call "a temple" or dwelling place for the spirit, Scripture clearly indicates that there will be a physical/bodily resurrection from the dead (Job 19:26, Ps. 16:10): for the just, a resurrection unto life (1 Cor. 15:20-23); for the unjust, a resurrection unto damnation (Jn. 5:28-29). It was thoroughly demonstrated by the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 4:33; 1 Pet. 1:3), more than the raising of the Shunammite son (2 Kings 4:18-37), the revival of the man from the sepulchre of Elisha (2 Kings 13:21), the revival of dry bones in a valley (Ezek. 37:1-14), the raising of Lazarus from the dead (Jn. 11:43, 44), and the raising of Eutychus by Paul the Apostle (Acts 20:9-12). Paul emphasized that unless we believe in the resurrection of the dead, then our faith is vain and we are yet in our sins (1 Cor. 15:17).

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                            OldRusty1 year, 2 months ago

                            Reminds me of our own skull and bones society here in the USA.

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                              RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago

                              They must have been athiests.

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                                Beth3161 year, 2 months ago

                                The body is a temple ONLY as long as the souls is within it. If you want to put your faith in that little book, be my guest. I have my faith in a higher place.

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                                  Beowulf2101 year, 2 months ago

                                  Is a house no longer a house if someone is not inside of it?

                                  Though I put my faith "in that little book" (i.e., the Bible), it is not unsupported by fact and/or truth.

                                  By the way, on what basis do you declare that the body "is a temple ONLY as long as the souls [sic] is within it"? Do you even know what a soul is? It takes faith to believe both that the body is a temple and that a spirit dwells within it.

                                  You have faith in "a higher place" rather than the Bible? What and/or where is this "higher place"?

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