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To: smoothsailing

I know about the washing of the corpse in Islam (Jews do it too—at least the orthodox)but even among Christians and others is there a good bit of touching of the dead in Africa? This coming from more of a cultural practice than a religious command.

7 posted on 10/21/2014 12:55:20 PM PDT by brooklyn dave (IF YOU TAKE THE STATE'S NICKEL, YOU GET THE STATE'S NOOSE)

To: brooklyn dave; Conscience of a Conservative

7 I know about the washing of the corpse in Islam (Jews do it too—at least the orthodox)but even among Christians and others is there a good bit of touching of the dead in Africa? This coming from more of a cultural practice than a religious command.

19 This is a cultural thing, not a religious thing. Many African cultures (and other cultures) practice ritual washing of bodies before burial.

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28 posted on 10/21/2014 5:56:35 PM PDT by MacNaughton (" If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." POTUS#16 ALincoln)

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