Weird and Religious
Human sacrifice was part of Aztec religion in Central America, where victims were offered to the sun god to keep the universe functioning. Priests removed the heart while it was still beating and lifted it toward the sky. This was not seen as murder but as a necessary cosmic duty to prevent the world from ending.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1804, Haiti. During the revolution, violence included killings of French settlers. While largely anti colonial, some rebels drew on Vodou religious elements and spiritual authority, framing struggle as divinely supported liberation from Christian slaveholders and oppressive religious order.
Fact
In Buddhism, detachment does not mean indifference, and Buddhism presents it as freedom from clinging while still allowing care and compassion for others.
A broken system
Religion survives by demanding acceptance of its inconsistencies as features rather than flaws. Believers are told that divine truth transcends human logic while simultaneously being expected to reason their way into belief. Logic is used selectively and abandoned precisely when it becomes inconvenient. A belief system that requires contradiction to survive is not profound, it is broken. Truth does not require mutually exclusive claims to be held simultaneously, and reality does not need excuses. When a system can only function by teaching people to tolerate incoherence, the problem is not human reason. It is the system itself.
Quote of the day
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.” Richard Dawkins.
Ask the right question
If a prophet speaks for god, how can ordinary people reliably distinguish a true prophet from a deluded or manipulative one?
Religious Crooks
Edd Branson is a Zimbabwean prophet known for prophecy and miracle branding, with critics alleging that religious image and promises are used as part of a money generating enterprise.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.