Weird and Religious
Some Islamic traditions hold that a specific black stone set into the Kaaba in Mecca came down from paradise and was originally white but turned black because it absorbed the sins of humanity. Pilgrims try to kiss or touch it during pilgrimage, not because the stone itself is worshipped, but because it is linked to a sacred story about the beginning of human history.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1997, Luxor in Egypt. Islamist militants attacked tourists at Hatshepsut Temple, killing many people. The assault was justified by perpetrators as striking infidels and damaging Egypt’s economy to weaken the state, framed as jihad against an un-Islamic government and foreign presence.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, truthfulness is a key virtue, and Zoroastrianism opposes deception as aligned with destructive forces.
Christianity's Titanic
The story of Noah’s Ark is a perfect example of complete absurdities passed off as literal truth. According to the account in the Bible and the Torah, a global flood wiped out all life except a single family and pairs of animals preserved on a wooden vessel built with primitive tools, and this was not presented as allegory for most of religious history. It was taught as literal fact: the Earth was drowned, mountains were covered, and every land animal was either aboard or drowned before the survivors repopulated the planet. Taken seriously, the story is not merely unlikely but impossible. The logistics alone are fatal. Millions of species did not exist as breeding pairs in the ancient world, nor could they be housed, fed, cleaned, and separated by diet and habitat on a wooden structure. Carnivores would have required fresh meat, while parasites, insects, and microorganisms are either ignored or would have rendered the exercise pointless. After the flood, animals would have had to migrate across oceans and continents without leaving genetic bottlenecks so extreme that modern biology would immediately reveal them, and it does.
Quote of the day
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.” Frater Ravus.
Ask the right question
If a god values honesty, why reward belief based on faith rather than evidence?
Religious Crooks
Bob Larson is an American evangelist known for paid exorcism and deliverance services, with critics arguing that charging for dramatic spiritual warfare rituals turns religious fear into a commercial enterprise.
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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.
Throughout history and still to this day, there has never been a shortage of religious leaders who were not always following their own spiritual advice.