Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Celts, the human head was considered the seat of the soul. Skulls of enemies were sometimes kept as trophies, not just as symbols of victory but as objects thought to hold spiritual power.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2012, Timbuktu region of Mali. Islamist Muslim armed groups destroyed Sufi shrines and imposed harsh rule. They justified actions as removing un-Islamic practices, enforcing strict Islamic law, and purifying society according to their interpretation of Islam.
Fact
In Judaism, the Torah is the foundational sacred text, and Judaism treats it as divine teaching given to Moses.
In our image
When humans first imagined gods, they had only one template for mind and intention, their own. There was no concept of impersonal processes, blind forces, or natural laws. Everything that happened appeared to be driven by intention because intention was the only kind of cause that could be conceived. When crops failed, someone must have chosen it. When storms arrived, someone must have been angry. When victory came, someone must have been pleased. Gods inherited the full emotional range of their creators because that was the only emotional range available.
Quote of the day
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
Why do religious conversion experiences occur in every religion and point in different directions?
Religious Crooks
Sergei Torop, known as Vissarion, founded the Church of the Last Testament in Siberia, claiming messianic status and leading a remote community where followers gave up property and income, later detained amid allegations of financial and psychological exploitation.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.