They're only hurting themselves for their God. It's not like they're blowing people up or chopping off heads.

The hidden danger of being crucified:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYOXpDFCipU

Right, JFP, but if somebody was nailing himself to wood beams because he thought his imaginary friend would like it, would you have the same attitude, or would you wonder if somebody was going to have him committed? Because people are collective in their evidence-free beliefs, and the crazy stuff they lead to, doesn't mean it's sensible -- or sane.

So long as no innocent third parties are injured, you have no right to prevent someone harming themselves.

You're right Amy, but people who we otherwise would consider sane & reasonable do strange things all the time.

I personally wouldn't recommend having yourself nailed to a cross, but I doubt there's much I could say to dissuade them.

Eric, that video reminds me of an old Sam Kinison bit.

Bystander: "Why does Jesus have to die?"

Jesus: "Maybe I wouldn't have to if someone would get a hammer and some pliers."

My kids go to a Christian preschool, because it's only 2 miles from my house. Each week my daughter goes to chapel, and on Friday she was in the Easter play. I mentioned this to a coworker last Wednesday and said that the chapel lessons must not be sinking in. My daughter refers to stories about 'Super God' like he's a comic book hero and thinks baby Jesus was a girl.

The coworker said that I obviously needed to take my kids to church more often, and I replied that we are not a religious family. She then asked if my kids had been baptized and warned that my kids can't get into heaven without being baptized. My response: "And they can't get to Neverland without pixie dust either. So?" I'm not sure it went over too well.

Here's a bon mot I recall from years back: "Christ died for our sins. Let's not disappoint him."

Jesus Christ(I meant that as a pejorative, not a proper noun), Jesus didnt die for your sins. According to christian theology he suffered in the garden for your sins, he died(technically he was complicit in his own assisted suicide for you bible thumpers out there againts that) prematurly so he could be resurected therefore opening the way for everyone else to be resurected.

Learn your fucking religion people - how do you expect people to take your assinine belief in a sky fairy seriously when you cant even get the details of your own mythos correct?