Weird and Religious
In some Hindu traditions, certain holy men known as Aghori deliberately use things considered impure, including meditating in cremation grounds and using human skulls as bowls. They believe breaking social taboos helps them detach from illusion and fear.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1862, Minnesota in the United States. During the Dakota War, violence included attacks on settlers and reprisals. While driven by land and survival, some Christian rhetoric portrayed events as divine judgement or a struggle between civilisation and heathenism, shaping justification on both sides.
Fact
In Islam, marriage is strongly encouraged, and Islam provides detailed guidance on family roles, inheritance, and responsibilities between spouses and relatives.
Thrivng on a Weakness
The brain is a pattern-hungry machine that connects dots constantly, whether they belong together or not. This ability helped ancestors track animals, seasons, and threats, but it also causes humans to see meaning in coincidence and order in chaos. Faces appear in clouds, messages appear in random noise, and when two unrelated events occur close together, the brain often treats them as connected. Religion thrives on this weakness. A prayer followed by a positive outcome becomes evidence, and a ritual followed by survival becomes proof. Failed predictions are quietly ignored or reinterpreted, and the pattern survives because the brain wants it to.
Quote of the day
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Richard Dawkins.
Ask the right question
If a soul is immaterial, how does it interact with the physical brain without violating what is known about physics?
Religious Crooks
Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science and promoted spiritual healing through her teachings and books, building a tightly controlled religious publishing structure that critics argued turned theology into a highly profitable, centrally managed enterprise.
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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.