Weird and Religious
In ancient Carthage, there is evidence that children may have been sacrificed to gods such as Baal Hammon during times of crisis. Urns containing the burned remains of infants have been found in special burial areas called tophets. Some scholars argue over the interpretation, but many ancient writers described the practice as an appeal for divine favour.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2002, Gujarat in India. After a train fire, riots and organised attacks killed many people, mostly Muslims, alongside arson and assaults. Participants justified violence as retaliation and protection of Hindu society, invoking religion, honour, and claims of historic grievance.
Fact
In Taoism, the universe is seen as a dynamic process rather than a fixed structure, and Taoism describes reality as constantly shifting and self adjusting.
Fear and Death
Fear is not a weakness in human psychology but one of its oldest tools. Long before humans wondered about truth or meaning, they feared injury, abandonment, and death. Fear kept bodies alive, sharpened attention, and forced caution, yet it also demanded explanation. When early humans became aware of their own mortality, something changed permanently. Death was no longer just something that happened to others; it became inevitable, personal, and unknowable. The mind that could imagine tomorrow could also imagine its own end, and that realisation created a problem no animal before us had faced. How do you live knowing you will stop existing.
Quote of the day
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.” Bertrand Russell.
Ask the right question
If humans are fallen or sinful by nature, why were they created with that nature in the first place?
Religious Crooks
Aleister Crowley was an occult religious figure who founded Thelema, presenting himself as a prophet while attracting wealthy patrons, with critics in his time accusing him of manipulating followers for money and status under a spiritual banner.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
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.