Posted on 01/25/2024 10:20:26 AM PST by Morgana
Tragedy struck in India when a five-year-old boy diagnosed with terminal cancer was drowned as his family tried to cure him with water from the River Ganges.
Police say the child, who had leukemia, died after his parents submerged him in the river flowing through northern India in a superstitious bid to cure him.
The family had reportedly travelled from their home in Delhi to Haridwar on Tuesday to perform the ceremony and pray for the unnamed victim.
Their taxi driver said the child was accompanied by his parents and a female relative identified as his aunt by local media.
The driver said the boy looked 'extremely unwell' and that doctors in the capital had given up on trying to save him - leading the family to take more desperate measures.
Video shared locally showed the parents later chanting prayers as his 'aunt' held him under the water.
Bystanders reportedly told the family to stop as they continued to hold the boy under the water, considered sacred to Hindus.
Some intervened when the family refused, video showing the 'aunt' trying to attack onlookers as they tried to pull the child out of the water.
The child was pulled out of the water and taken to hospital, where doctors formally announced he had died.
In one clip, the boy's 'aunt' is seen calling out that the child will come back to life.
The family members were all taken into custody for questioning, police said.
Haridwar city police chief Swantantra Kumar said: 'It appears that they brought the boy here because they believed that Ganga snan [cleansing] would cure him.'
The River Ganges, with a central role in India's founding history, has lasting religious and cultural significance to Hindus.
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And his family is guilty of child abuse and murder in my book.
Dunking him in the Ganges?! Why not just drop him in the local sewer? Pretty much the same thing.
The Ganges is the local sewer.
some people are too stupid to breed.
Why not just drop him in the local sewer? Pretty much the same thing.
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Worse, your local sewer does not have the recently dead and the decomposing dead floating by: both people and animals.
The Ganges must be the filthiest water on the face of the earth. Lots of pics showing how disease-ridden it is, if you look around.
The procedure was adopted from the book of how to deal with witches.
If they they weigh the same as a duck...
Never heard of soaking somebody in poop curing anybody.
Per their Hindu culture, it was an extreme act of faith and humility before God (ok, Hindu gods...), asking for a grace/blessing.
The search for (miracle) cures through purely divine intervention is not restricted to peasants in India, but is common (and valid) throughout the world
BUT its important to understand - God gave us Faith, and also, Reason - and both should used
A family member who was stationed along china India border said the locals would take a dump in the river while others were down steam swimming and drinking the water.
They are probably intelligent people just have a backwards religion.
Death cures all illnesses.
Ganges is probably much cleaner in Northern India.
Had he survived, the bacteria in his airway would have had a party.
FWIW, in one of the hadiths I read shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Muhammad said to drink camel urine as a medicine.
I’d read a long time ago that efforts were made to clean up the Ganges. Now I read that those efforts are failed. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives one a sense of how things are going on this idyllic waterway:
Varanasi, a city of one million people that many pilgrims visit to take a “holy dip” in the Ganges, releases around 200 million liters of untreated human sewage into the river each day, leading to large concentrations of fecal coliform bacteria.[137] According to official standards, water safe for bathing should not contain more than 500 fecal coliforms per 100 ml, yet upstream of Varanasi’s ghats the river water already contains 120 times as much, 60,000 fecal coliform bacteria per 100 ml.[139][140]
After the cremation of the deceased at Varanasi’s ghats, the bones and ashes are immersed into the Ganges. However, in the past thousands of uncremated bodies were thrown into the Ganges during cholera epidemics, spreading the disease. Even today, holy men, pregnant women, people with leprosy or chicken pox, people who have been bitten by snakes, people who have committed suicide, the poor, and children under 5 are not cremated at the ghats but are left to float free, to decompose in the waters. In addition, those who cannot afford the large amount of wood needed to incinerate the entire body, leave behind many half-burned body parts
Let’s import 20 or 30 million of these idiots while we’re at it.
The child died of a false religion.
And we let people from India into the US...
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