Into the lions den

Check this out. Human stupidity reaches new heights

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1163530.html?menu=news.quirkies

And hey! if you thought that was bad.. someone else did it as well..

http://www.nbc10.com/news/2759384/detail.html

I'm not sure whether it's a :rolleyes: or a situation, to be perfectly honest.

Zoo officials claimed Chen would have been more seriously hurt had the lions not been fed earlier in the day.

Unbelievable

Its not true Frag - it was divine protection when he started to pray, he would never have come to further harm after that point!

Some cray folks in this world eh? :rolleyes:

Whats this with God and lions? Ordering all these people to bitch with em, hes got something unfinished with those cats I tell ya!

Sounds like he was trying something related to an old bible story -- I don't remember exactly what happened, but I believe someone was thrown into a lion's den :biggrin: and God sent His angels down to keep the jaws of the lions closed. So in a sense, they did nothing.

Trying to play "chicken on the rail road tracks" with God is never a good idea though :razz:

both of them where on the news when it happend

A Taiwanese tried to convert lions to Christianity?!

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You'd think if it were possible to convert lions to Christianity,
someone would have figured it out when the Romans were persecuting the early Christian church by
throwing them to the lions. Of course, the man was a fool. Lions are
innately bhuddist, and they may have only 'attacked' the man while
trying to convey this fact.

It was the prayer that probably saved him. Maybe not by devine intervention, but by standing still and becoming less threatening by folding his arms. Most animals are easier to approach if they can't see a couple of snakes hanging from your shoulders.

Blue, no angels to hold the lions jaws closed. The story goes, that Androclese (sp?) met a lion with a big thorn in its paw, and he helped it. Later, when the romans threw him to the lions, it was the same animal he had helped, and it remembered him, and didn't hurt him.

fishy said:
Blue, no angels to hold the lions jaws closed. The story goes, that Androclese (sp?) met a lion with a big thorn in its paw, and he helped it. Later, when the romans threw him to the lions, it was the same animal he had helped, and it remembered him, and didn't hurt him.

Bare in mind, you might be a different religion that what I am -- Catholic. I'm pretty sure the story went somewhat like how I said it, but I also don't remember a lot of it. X_x

I think you might be talking about something else... unless it's a variation? (is it?)

I'm from RC background too, I think Fishy is right. Point is. Lions are a**holes!

In the Old Testament, Daniel was thrown into a den of lions and was saved through his faith. Two different stories, both involving lions. Only the Daniel story is considered canon though, as the Bible was a done deal by the time Nero started bringing the circus to town.