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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Can religious rituals cleanse us of our sins? I believe many local Buddhists believe they can. Otherwise, you wouldn’t see so many people drawn to religious practices. Buddhism and commercialism collide with superstition to offer a way for us to supposedly absolve ourselves of responsibility for mistakes committed in the past. While sin and atonement are prominent concepts in other religions, this ritual is unique to Thai culture, particularly the way in which you see people from the bottom rung all the way up the top of the socio-economic ladder adhering to the same central Buddhist tenet by …
