Weird and Religious
The Dogon people of Mali have complex cosmological stories involving star systems and invisible beings called Nommo, described as amphibious ancestral spirits. Their myths link creation, water, and the structure of the universe in ways that mix observation and symbolic storytelling.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2007, Pakistan, Lal Masjid crisis. Islamist militants clashed with security forces in Islamabad. Militants justified resistance as defence of Islamic law and opposition to an un-Islamic government, framing confrontation as religious struggle.
Fact
In Shinto, purity is a central concern, and Shinto uses washing and ritual cleansing to remove spiritual pollution before worship.
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
“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.” Friedrich Nietzsche.
Ask the right question
If holy figures performed public miracles, why do we not see similarly clear events in the age of cameras and global media?
Religious Crooks
Nithyananda is a Hindu self proclaimed guru accused of sexual assault and abuse of followers, facing criminal charges in India, with critics alleging that spiritual status was used to manipulate devotees.
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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.