Weird and Religious
Early Christianity had groups who believed extreme self denial brought them closer to holiness. Some hermits lived on top of pillars for years, exposed to the weather, preaching to people below. These “pillar saints” thought physical suffering purified the soul.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2020, France, Nice. An Islamist extremist killed worshippers in a church. The attacker framed the act as revenge for perceived insults to Islam and justified killing civilians as part of a religious struggle against unbelievers.
Fact
In Christianity, the Lord’s Supper, also called Communion or Eucharist, is observed, and Christianity uses bread and wine to remember Jesus and express spiritual unity.
Systematic Dismantling
What we need is not a gradual nudge away from belief, but a systematic dismantling of the ideas, instincts, and structures that allowed gods to exist at all. The illusion should be taken apart piece by piece, not to replace it with cynicism, but with clarity and honesty. When the scaffolding is removed, what remains is not emptiness but responsibility and adulthood. It is the realisation that the universe does not owe us meaning, and that this was never a problem until we invented gods to pretend otherwise.
Quote of the day
“Religion divides people. It has been a bloody business.” Christopher Hitchens.
Ask the right question
If a perfect being inspired scripture, why is interpretation so disputed that thousands of denominations and sects exist?
Religious Crooks
Ryuho Okawa founded Happy Science in Japan, claiming to channel spiritual entities and producing a large catalogue of paid books, seminars, and films, with critics describing the organisation as driven by monetised revelations and centralised authority.
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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.