Martyrdom Or Demonic Possession? Climate Activists Praise Man For Burning Himself Alive In Front Of Supreme Court
May 24, 2022 by SkyWatch Editor
Climate activist and Buddhist Wynn Bruce died from his injuries on Saturday after lighting himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court in protest of “climate change.” According to a report from The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, “self-immolation” is a “practice in Buddhism of voluntarily terminating one’s own life or offering parts of one’s own body usually by setting oneself ablaze.” The report describes from Buddhist literature how prominent figures did this as a form of human sacrifice and worship. It further includes the story of a Buddhist leader who “plunges himself into a wood fire” and another who “throws himself off a cliff” in “heroic” forms of “self-sacrifice” and protest. Scripture’s various accounts describing Demon possession shed stunning light on this Buddhist text. According to the Bible, demons caused people to self-harm by cutting themselves (Mark 5:5), drowning themselves, and, pertinent to our current discussion, throwing themselves into fires (Mark 9:22). “And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us” (Mark 9:21-22). In one of the additional accounts, Jesus cast a “legion” of demons out of a man and into a herd of pigs. The possessed animals then flung themselves off of a nearby cliff (Mark 5:13)…(READ MORE)