Weird and Religious
In parts of West Africa, the Yoruba tradition includes a god of iron, war, and technology called Ogun, who is believed to govern not only weapons but also modern tools such as cars and machinery. Road accidents are sometimes linked to displeasing Ogun, blending ancient belief with modern life.
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 Sikhism, humility is praised, and Sikhism teaches avoiding pride and recognising dependence on the divine.
Redefining God
Attempts to deny the close resemblance between humans and their gods usually involve redefining god into abstraction so that god becomes love itself, goodness itself, or existence itself. This is not discovery but retreat. The original gods with emotions, commands, and preferences become embarrassing under scrutiny, so they are dissolved into vagueness. What remains cannot think, feel, or act, which makes it indistinguishable from nothing at all. This strategy preserves belief while discarding its content, a linguistic gesture that saves the word while losing the idea.
Quote of the day
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” Robert M. Pirsig.
Ask the right question
If suffering builds character, why does extreme suffering often destroy lives rather than improve them?
Religious Crooks
Inri Cristo, a Brazilian religious claimant who presents himself as a reincarnated Christ, leads a small movement funded by followers, with critics describing it as personality driven and financially sustained through devotion to his divine claims.
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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.