So you remember the scene from The Ten Commandments when the Hebrews went crazy and started worshipping the golden calf?
Burning Man is like that times 100.
Yeah I was thinking pagan festival.
😔😞😦🙁
Yikes 😳😳😳
The actual event was a lot worse than the movie.
Ex 32:24-25: (And Aaron said to Moses), And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. And when Moses saw that the people were naked
The participating Israelites were about to engage in orgiastic behavior which accompanied idolatry of the era. The actual text most likely resembles the reprobates at the Burning Retard event, more so than the movie with Charlton Heston.
God put the fire out on their false idol.