Weird and Religious
Some Islamic traditions say that when a person dies and is buried, two angels named Munkar and Nakir come into the grave to question the dead person. The grave becomes a kind of interview room where answers determine comfort or distress until the final judgement.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1987, Lebanon during the civil war. Sectarian militias carried out massacres and reprisals across religious lines, including attacks on villages and camps. Fighters often justified killings as protecting their religious community, avenging earlier atrocities, and defending sacred identity in a fractured, faith divided society.
Fact
In Christianity, worship often takes place in community, and Christianity gathers believers for teaching, prayer, singing, and shared rituals.
Agency by default
Early humans had no concept of natural processes operating without intention, and the idea that things could happen for no reason, or for reasons that did not involve choice, was alien to them. Agency was the default assumption, for if something occurred, someone must have made it occur. Gods became the universal answer precisely because they could be applied universally. They were flexible enough to explain anything and invisible enough to avoid contradiction, and when one explanation failed, another divine motive could always be added without disturbing the underlying belief.
Quote of the day
“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.” Clarence Darrow.
Ask the right question
If scriptures are morally perfect, why do they contain endorsements of slavery, child marriage or violent conquest?
Religious Crooks
Ravi Zacharias was a prominent Christian apologist whose ministry commissioned an independent investigation after his death, which concluded that he had engaged in sexual misconduct and exploited women while using his religious reputation as cover.
For more information, google the name.
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.