Man cuts off his manhood due to fasting.

A 27 year old man is reported to have cut off his manhood from his body using a machete. The young man, who is said to be a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in Nigeria, and currently involved in the 21 days of prayer and fasting, decided to do an act of faith.

According to him, fasting and prayers are nothing to joke about hence one must take it very serious. It is a time when one must give up all earthly pleasures for God.

The young man was doing just fine without food and water but his penis was hindering him from his devotion to God with its little erections everyday.

He says "the penis has a mind of its own and it is capable of doing things which are totally out of my control. It usually gets erect every now and then, and konji sets in. And you know that konji is one of the things that leads people into sin. The erections were making me weaker spiritually and in the fast. That is why I cut it off. Even Jesus Christ said that we should cut off anything which will make us sin.” 

His neighbors attacked him thinking he was attempting to perform a ritual until he was able to explain to them what he was doing.

He is now at the hospital responding to treatment and hoping that his penis will grow back on his body after the 21 days of fasting and prayers.