Weird and Religious
In ancient Mesopotamia, people carried small clay statues of gods in their homes, but if disaster struck they sometimes punished the statue, even throwing it away, as though the god had failed in its duty. The relationship with the divine could be treated like a contract.
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 Taoism, harmony with the Tao is the ideal, and Taoism encourages living in a way that flows naturally with the patterns of nature rather than forcing outcomes.
Fear, death, and imagination
To understand religion, one does not need revelation or faith but an understanding of fear, death, and imagination. When those forces combine in a self-aware species trapped in a dangerous world, gods are not surprising; they are inevitable. The real question is not why humans believed in gods but why so many still do now that the original fears can finally be faced without inventing stories to hide from them.
Quote of the day
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.” Frater Ravus.
Ask the right question
Why would a god reveal different and conflicting rules to different groups of people?
Religious Crooks
Charles Taze Russell was a founder of the Bible Student movement that led to Jehovah’s Witnesses, promoting prophetic timelines and religious publications while facing court disputes and criticism in his lifetime over finances, business practices, and claims about his background.
For more information, google the name.
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.