Is it allowed in christianity to take part and organised this type of festival ?
Why christians engage in such festival to mark the day of Muslim arival in Spain and then started slavery of spanish christian which lasted several hundred years … during the time Muslim rulers butchered thousands of christain and kept native spanish under barbaric rule… The red color symbolize the blood of innocent spanish christians.
How can Catholic church and spanish govt allow such kind of festivity to mark a sad day in history ?
BUNOL, Spain (AFP) - Some 40,000 people crowded into the southeastern Spanish town of Bunol Wednesday to take part in its annual tomato fight.
The event, La Tomatina, drew tourists from Asia, Australia, Britain and the United States who helped themselves to ammunition from trucks parked in the main square with 130 tonnes of the ripe fruit.
Hostilities lasted an hour, leaving the streets running with juice and facades stained red before combattants headed to the river or municipal showers to clean up.
The festival, held on the last Wednesday of August, has its origins in a battle between friends in the 1940s. The area around Bunol is rich in fruit and vegetables of many kinds.
Re: La tomatina- Why is it allowed in Christianity, ?
^ Yes please, do the favor and ask them :k:
LD - What you think is least important. more important question is, why their conscious is asleep ? Why they don’t do something to stop this ignorant celebration to mark a sad day in christian/spanish hisotory.
Deedawar- Changing words is simple, tweaking history is somewhat difficult. Muslims were slaughtered in many areas and Muslims did slaghter their enemy where ever they saw fit. It is common; butchering humans is the favorite past time of mankind… history is evident.
Re: La tomatina- Why is it allowed in Christianity, ?
ok lets clarify
once upon a time a watched a television programme on this subject and it stated that the festival was to celebrate the harvest...it mentioned nothing about the "sad day in Christian/spanish history"
upon watching this I thunked it was true and therefore camed to the conclusion type thoughts as per post no 2
Re: La tomatina- Why is it allowed in Christianity, ?
^ thanks for the clarification
I would like to admit that What I wrote in the first post is nothing but rubbish, It has nothing to do with the origin of this festival.
The festival does not has an iota of religious or historical significance whatsoever
It started in in 1957 when few people playfully started throwing tomatoes at others in a market later people started doing every year to celebrate the harvest and it became a mega festival…
Just like we, in Lahore celebrate a festival known “** Horse and Cattle Show**” for past some 50 years or so, the arrangemet cost lots of money and human resouce.Tens of thousand people come to watch it from around the province and country.
If some outsider tells me that the festival is celebrated to mark the birth or death aniversary of some religious personality … then I would be furious and smack him hard because he is telling me utter crap, he does not even has knowledge worth a dime about this festival !
I made up this story to show that anyone can carefully craft a story and mix some historical events and state it as origin of a festival or can associate with any religious figure.
We need to take anything anyone tells us, with a pinch of salt. Now with the information is plenty, it wont take more than few seconds
"However, the most reliable and historical version says that everything started in 1945. The town square (where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays) was crowded with young people of that time to witness a “Gigantes y Cabezudos” parade (giant carnival figures with a grotesque head). Some of them decided to join the authority commitee and music band leading the parade and to do so they pushed the ones who were wearing the giant disguises.
One of the participants fell down and when he stood up he started beating everyone around so everybody got caught up in a fight.Fate or chance, there was a vegetable stall nearby with open crates showing the goods for sale. The young people involved in the fight took the tomatoes from the crates and started throwing them at each other until the police broke up “the battle”, and those responsible for the riot paid for the damages.
This riot was not forgotten and the next year on the same Wednesday of August the youths of the town met again at the square, but this time with their own tomatoes. This is how another battle started and once again was stopped by the local police. In fact, in the following years the authorities forbade the celebration of what was already popularly known as the “day of the tomatina”. Nevertheless, this celebration has been held every year since them."
Code_Red… come on… bet for days guppies were telling each other… guess what I found out? and in 20 yrs another myth will be born rolling eyes…
because he is telling me utter crap, he does not even has knowledge worth a dime about this festival !