No Form of Religious Mutilation Will Ever Bring Anyone Closer to Salvation

It's sickening how people tell Christians to respect other people's religion regardless of what they do. There's the call to be tolerant to all religions regardless of what they teach. But true love doesn't tolerate error and one of the reasons why God hates heathenism is also because of ritualized mutilation. For the sake of children reading this site there will be no graphic materials to be displayed.

I'm sickened to think about how this verse is still true today in some pagan religions:
1 Kings 18:28 
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

I'm sure glad that the Bible doesn't describe events of violence and gore in detail even if it doesn't cover it up nor are there images of them. I couldn't imagine what Elijah must have felt when he saw all the ritualistic slashing done. Today, we still have it going on with various heathen religions. It's really disgusting how they seek to mortify the flesh with fleshly activities.

What religions today practice religious mutilation? We have Shiite Islam, certain branches of Hinduism and branches schools of Taoism to name a few. This is done by some devotees and religious leaders. It's disgusting how people can think of mutilating their bodies seeking to honor their gods and goddesses hoping that they get one step closer to salvation. Just thinking how modern day parades displaying Baal worshipers in all forms of sizes showing everyone their mutilated bodies is just disgusting. How could anyone think of doing that to themselves?

What does the Bible say about mortifying the flesh? Some people may tell me that Jesus said that we must cut off our hand or pluck out our eye like some ascetics do if they feel like they offended their gods and goddesses, but here's what Got Questions has to say about that matter:
The graphic word pictures of Matthew 5 and 18 still grab attention today, and they raise the question of how literally we should take Jesus’ commands in these passages. Does Jesus actually mean to say that we should pluck out our eyes or sever a hand if we are prone to sin? It may be of comfort to know that Jesus’ instructions in these particular verses are not meant to be taken literally. We need not mutilate our bodies as a punishment for our sin. Rather, Jesus means that we should be prepared to make exceptional sacrifices if we want to follow Him (see Matthew 16:24). 
Jesus had just warned His audience against using their eyes for lustful purposes (Matthew 5:28), so His prescribed remedy for lust—to pluck out an eye—makes sense, in a radical sort of way. But it is the radical nature of His statement that makes it so memorable. 
When Jesus advises us to pluck out a sinful eye or cut off an unruly hand, He is employing a figure of speech known as hyperbole. Hyperbole is an obvious exaggeration or an intentional overstatement. Examples of hyperbole in modern speech would include statements like “This bag of groceries weighs a ton,” “I’ve been waiting forever,” and “Everyone knows that.” The apostle Paul uses hyperbolic language in Galatians 4:15. Hyperbole, like other figures of speech, is not meant to be taken literally. 
Jesus’ purpose in saying, hyperbolically, that sinners should pluck out their eyes or cut off their hands is to magnify in His hearers’ minds the heinous nature of sin. Sin is any action or thought that is contrary to the character of God. The result of sin is death, from which Jesus wants to preserve us (see Hebrews 2:9). Jesus warns of hell because He doesn’t want people to go there (Matthew 5:29–30).

In truth, the Bible reveals that no amount of ritual mutilation in an attempt to mortify the flesh is ever going to work. The worse is that some people who perform ritual mutilations may go back to living such sinful lives after they have accomplished such a gory task. But the Bible offers God's grace to lead to holy and righteous living.
1 Corinthians 6:11 
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Titus 2:11-14 
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.