Weird and Religious
Islamic lore includes detailed descriptions of hell where people’s skins are repeatedly burned off and replaced so that punishment can continue. The body is portrayed as being constantly renewed in order to experience ongoing sensation, which gives the afterlife a graphic physical dimension.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1998, Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Christian and Muslim militias clashed in communal warfare, burning villages and killing civilians. Both sides justified violence as defence of their Christian or Muslim faith communities, protection of churches or mosques, and resistance to domination.
Fact
In Jainism, non violence is the central ethical principle, and Jainism teaches avoiding harm to all living beings in thought, word, and action.
Preserving authority
When belief requires suspension of reason, the issue is not human limitation but institutional design. Noah’s Ark and a prophet ascending on a winged horse are not deep mysteries awaiting humility. They are relics of a time when amazement replaced understanding and obedience replaced inquiry. Religion once demanded belief in the ridiculous because it could, and today it demands reinterpretation because it must. In both cases, the goal is the same: preserve authority by ensuring the stories change shape while the demand remains the same, to believe first and question never.
Quote of the day
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil, but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
Why do prophecies in religious texts tend to be vague, symbolic or written after the events they appear to predict?
Religious Crooks
Hogen Fukunaga led Ho No Hana Sanpogyo in Japan, claiming spiritual diagnostic powers through foot reading, later convicted of fraud after authorities said followers were pressured into paying large sums for supposed spiritual cures.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
Today we took a look at yet another religious crook but there are hundreds of thousands of them. You could spend a lifetime researching the topic.