Weird and Religious
There is a belief in Islam that every human being has a personal jinn companion called a qarin. This unseen being is said to whisper suggestions and temptations throughout a person’s life. The idea presents inner thoughts and impulses as partly influenced by an invisible parallel creature.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
In Confucianism, ritual behaviour is important, and Confucianism uses ceremonies and respectful forms of action to maintain social order and continuity.
Just and merciful?
Another religious inconsistency appears in the claim that god is perfectly just and perfectly merciful. Justice demands consequences proportional to harm, while mercy demands forgiveness, but eternal punishment for finite actions satisfies neither. A god who forgives everything is not just, and a god who punishes forever is not merciful, and trying to hold both qualities simultaneously results in definitions so vague they lose all meaning. Justice becomes whatever god does, and mercy becomes irrelevant.
Quote of the day
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ask the right question
Why should ancient testimony about supernatural events be trusted when we reject similar modern claims as unreliable?
Religious Crooks
José Luis de Jesús Miranda was a Puerto Rican religious leader who declared himself a divine figure and built a following that contributed money and loyalty to his ministry, with critics pointing to extravagant displays of wealth and claims that religious devotion was used to sustain his lifestyle.
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Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.