Woman treats green ogre figure with great reverence; says she will continue to worship ‘kind-hearted’ cartoon statue
This is how I view all religion, so this is fine.
Clearly it was working. If Shrek wasn’t answering the prayers I think it would be obvious.
Shrek isn’t the worst idol.
He’s grumpy but he’s got layers, and is fairly accepting. And I think we can all relate to how far he’ll go for a bit of peace and quiet.
What? Like some kind of onion creature?
I’d liken him more to a parfait
Like he came from a 3D printer.
Honestly that’s a far better idol than most religions.
Do other people not pray to Shrek daily?
I’m not devout, it’s only once every 2 or 3 weeks for me.
Shrek is love, Shrek is life.
Onions!
I mean… there are worse options
Objectively not the dumbest religion I’ve ever heard of.
And? Why stop now that you know how good he is. Shrek provides for everyone.
The title literally says she was going to keep doing it.
Ah, I didn’t notice that. Well, all is good then. Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
The ears are literally the only thing making it Shrek.
Shrek is just Buddha with weird ears.
Well, I’d argue that Shrek’s normal face is exactly halfway between Buddha and Sexy Human Shrek.
She isn’t worshiping Shrek any more than someone praying at a cross worships wooden plus signs. Stupid article.
Yup. No more stupid than someone worshiping a guy who lived 2K years ago whose mother had an affair and blamed a magical sky fairy.
I doubt you understood them. Buddhists don’t worship Buddha idols or anyone: Buddha considered such devotion or worship unenlightened/unskilled & instead encouraged self-reliance in one’s journey to nirvana. They’re more contemplating the enlightenment they identify with Buddha as they meditate on their own way to achieve that. A Shrek figure may work just as well for their purpose: enlightenment to them means shedding ego & not letting vicissitudes/nuisances cling them to samsara.
Idk. It says worshiped right there in the title.
Amitabha
That’s a good point. I guess some later schools do practice devotion to Buddha whereas earlier Buddhism might have only regarded the qualities of Buddha as inspiration. It’s definitely not part of the Buddhist path in early Buddhism.
Being honest, it was very common at the time to have Zeus’ or Jupiter’s babies.
I thought a ‘+’ sign was doubly symmetric.
As a buddhist, that statue is most definitely something I want in my home.
Utah family worships a portrait of Obi Wan Kenobi thinking it’s Jesus.hahaha! I just saw the story about it: https://www.boredpanda.com/obi-wan-kenobi-jesus-portrait-mormon-parents-prank/
Is that worse or better than the other fake portrait of Jesus I saw growing up Catholic? The white, blue eyed Jesus that you’ve probably seen somewhere.
That is nothing, billions of muslims worships nonexisting god, billion+ christians worships same nonexisting god and milions jews worships same nonexisting god while killing eachother without remorse.
Maybe their god wanted some peace and quite and thought that if they were to annihilate each other, that might lead to fulfilling the requirement.
That explains why we don’t work on Saturdays, nothing good can come of it.
Hey now, she’s an all-star!
As long as she does.not want to establish Shrekism as a state-religion…
I bought my friend a statue as a housewarming gift, told him to keep it in the kitchen next to the cooker.
So whens he’s in the kitchen cooking he could say stuff like
“I’m just frying this up with a little bhudda”
