Weird and Religious
In some Pacific cultures, ancestors were believed to return as sharks or other animals, and harming such a creature could be seen as harming a relative. The line between human and animal identity was not fixed.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2017, Egypt, Sinai and Nile regions. Islamist militants attacked Coptic Christian churches and buses, killing worshippers. Groups justified attacks as jihad against Christians and the Egyptian state, portraying violence as defence of Islam.
Fact
In Jainism, meditation is important, and Jainism uses reflection and concentration to purify the mind and reduce karmic attachment.
Sincere prophets
Some of God's so-called messengers are sincere and mistaken. They experience visions, voices, or overwhelming convictions and interpret them through the cultural framework available to them. In a world steeped in superstition, internal experiences are easily externalised. Dreams feel like messages. Intuition feels like command. Emotional surges feel like revelation. These individuals are not lying in the ordinary sense. They are convinced. But conviction is not evidence. History is full of people who believed extraordinary things about themselves and were wrong.
Quote of the day
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Denis Diderot.
Ask the right question
If a religion claims scientific miracles in its scripture, why do these claims usually depend on modern reinterpretations rather than clear original meaning?
Religious Crooks
Eileen George was an American Catholic visionary figure who reported apparitions and attracted donations and devotional followers, with sceptics arguing that unverified supernatural claims were used to sustain a personality centred religious following.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.