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
2021, Ethiopia, Tigray region. Although mainly ethnic and political, attacks on religious sites and identity occurred. Some actors used Orthodox Christian or Muslim identity rhetoric to mobilise supporters, framing struggle as defence of faith community amid war.
Fact
In Taoism, leadership is ideally gentle, and Taoism often presents the best ruler as one who governs lightly and avoids harsh control.
Keeping believers ignorant
Islamic apologetics illustrate the need to shielf believers from education. Anyone making a critical point about the Qu'ran are told they misunderstand Arabic, lack context, or approach the text with bias. Ordinary believers absorb this message and conclude that independent reading is unsafe. Understanding is outsourced. The Qur’an becomes untouchable not because it is clear, but because it is dangerous to approach without permission. A book that claims to be perfectly clear somehow requires constant mediation to prevent misunderstanding.
This reliance on ignorance explains religion’s hostility to open inquiry. Questions are tolerated only within strict boundaries. Asking why is acceptable only if the answer is already known. Many potent questions are forbidden. Faith fills the gaps where knowledge would otherwise appear. The less a believer knows, the more secure the belief feels. Complexity collapses into certainty. Doubt is kept at bay by distance.
Quote of the day
“Faith is the great cop out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” Richard Dawkins.
Ask the right question
If humans are fallen or sinful by nature, why were they created with that nature in the first place?
Religious Crooks
Sergei Torop, known as Vissarion, founded the Church of the Last Testament in Siberia, claiming messianic status and leading a remote community where followers gave up property and income, later detained amid allegations of financial and psychological exploitation.
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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.