Posted on 03/05/2024 10:09:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Time magazine article analyzing self-immolation as a form of protest drew comparisons between Christians who were burned alive for their faith during the Roman Empire and the U.S. airman who set himself on fire last month to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
A Feb. 26 Time magazine article details how self-immolation has been used as a form of protest throughout history, including during the Vietnam War and the Arab Spring.
Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty U.S. Air Force member, filmed himself dousing his body in a clear liquid before lighting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Feb. 25, shouting “Free Palestine!” as he burned. Bushnell said that he would "no longer be complicit in genocide."
As the article noted, Bushnell is not the first to self-immolate to protest in response to the Israel-Hamas war. In December, an unidentified individual set themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. Authorities recovered a Palestinian flag at the scene, and Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the action was "likely an extreme act of political protest.”
Time magazine reports that the “practice of self-immolation dates back centuries.” One example the article provided included the Hindu tale of Sati, the wife of a Hindu God who burned herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, an action used to justify the now-banned practice of ritual suicide in India.
“Self-immolation was also seen as a sacrificial act committed by Christian devotees who chose to be burned alive when they were being persecuted for their religion by Roman emperor Diocletian around 300 A.D.,” The Times article stated.
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Time is a LOST CAUSE, LEFT WING RAG.
Just like every other leftist media outlet.
He was Antifa.
I link it to mental patients who find a way to kill themselves.
And the ones promoting their views by self-immolation at the start of the Vietnam War. Buddhist zealots, whether mentally ill by Western standards or not.
WRONG!
Early Christian martyrs who suffered death by burning were burned by their persecutors! They never practiced self-immolation!
Phooey to Time magazine, as usual!
Nothing was going to happen to this guy. He chose to immolate himself. Christian martyrs did not go into the arena singing. They went in because their only choice was to deny Christ. That they would not do. The Vietnamese Buddhist monks are a closer analogy to our current immolation. They were protesting the Diem regime and their deaths helped move JFK toward consigning Diem to the ashbin.
To my knowledge Christian martyrs were not suicidal...their lives were ended by others.
I think John Huss actually did sing.
Catholics did not immolste themselves, the government did it to them.
Saints Lawrence and
Joan of Arc, pray for us.
I remember some American setting himself on fire a few years ago. He thought it would be a great way to protest something till the flames began to lick his legs. He then went screaming for someone to put out the flames.
Last I heard of it was he was trying to sue the spectators for not stopping him.
Bet this self burner realized what a dum bass he was when the flames began to lick him real well. Now he is just Smoked Meat. A Crispy Critter.
Why would Spirit-born Heaven-bound disciple want to immolate a body that is already decaying and is needed only to transport the contender for The Faith? What good would that do?
Time magazine writers and editors are obviously incompetent.
There is a big difference between Christian martyrs and the fool airman who committed suicide by self-immolation. The Christian martyrs went to Heaven, the fool airman is very likely still burning and likely will for all eternity.
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