We’ve seen bizarre practices around the world, but this must be one of the most unbelievable ones!
Around the world, believers adhere to practices that strike outsiders as bizarre (and even taboo at times), but seem completely reasonable to the faithful. Even the religions most familiar to westerners, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have their fair share of unusual rituals, too. However, this church’s practice is not only bizarre, but completely unacceptable to many.
Most church-goers tend to be conservative, wearing proper clothes that barely expose skin. Wearing proper clothes serves as respect to the church, and other worshippers as well. However, this church believes that worshipping naked is not only proper, but the best way to ‘bare your soul’.
Pastor Allen Parker of White Tail Chapel made the decision to allow people to worship naked after concluding that the clothing requirements of other churches were overly ‘pretentious’.
“There’s not a feeling that you have to be better than one another, physically. We’re humans, we have scars, and we have what we have. It’s learning to love and accept that,” Mr. Parker says.
He added: “When he [Jesus] was born he was naked, when he was crucified he was naked and when he arose he left his clothes in the tomb and he was naked.
“If God made us that way, how can that be wrong?”
But some churchgoers choose to wear clothes when attending mass because of the winter, while others choose to expose their genitals and breasts instead.
The church believes that nudity is the “great equalizer” among all men. He says that while we are often differentiated by how we dress and look, interacting naked shows that we are all the same underneath it all.
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