People scream and act crazy at music concerts too. Humans, a suggestible and exciteable bunch. Granted if they started pulling this at the Church services I occaisionally attend, I'd be outa there.

I've seen this... I should of ran. I hung around because of my wife's family. It's strange and I never got use to it. I did eventually leave it. Now I'm here to tell you that even the kids do this. I could just spit about how it screwed me and my families head up.

Haha. It's true, they are crazy.

Just think that there is some lucky guy out there....

I think this is the end result of a longer procedure where people follow some ritual to get themselves into some state of trance and hysteria. One can see similar things from all kinds of cultures (sometimes with the help of psychoactive drugs) and while there is often some kind of "spiritual" aspect the common property is essentially just that people have come up with tricks to mess a little bit with their brain.
So this is not necessarily insanity, but of course the way how that state of mind is then interpreted in a religious way is utter bullshit.

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