Weird and Religious
The ancient Persians practised a ritual in which a dog was brought to look at a corpse. The gaze of the dog was believed to drive away evil forces associated with death. Dogs had a specific spiritual role in dealing with the dead.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2017, Marawi in the Philippines. Islamist Muslim militants seized parts of the city, leading to months of fighting. The group justified the uprising as establishing an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia, enforcing Islamic rule, and resisting a government seen as illegitimate.
Fact
In Hinduism, Brahman is the name for ultimate reality, understood as the underlying spiritual essence behind everything that exists, beyond all forms and names.
Wrong way around
When believers claim that humans are made in the image of God, they reverse the actual relationship. Gods are made in the image of humans, and the projection could not be clearer. Human virtues are magnified into divine perfection, and human vices are excused as righteous judgement. Where humans are limited, gods are imagined as infinite extensions of the same impulses. Greater anger, greater love, greater punishment, and greater reward emerge from the same emotional material, expanded in scale but unchanged in substance
Quote of the day
“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.” Clarence Darrow.
Ask the right question
If heaven is perfect, do people there still have free will, and if not, why was free will necessary on earth?
Religious Crooks
Efraín Ríos Montt is more political, so instead take Efrain Rios Montt style cases out and use José Mercau, a self proclaimed Catholic mystic in Argentina, who was convicted of sexual abuse after presenting himself as a spiritual healer with special powers.
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That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.