Weird and Religious
Ancient Romans kept household gods called Lares and Penates, small figures placed near the hearth. Families made daily offerings to them, treating the kitchen area as a religious centre rather than a purely domestic space.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1536 to 1541, Cuzco region of Peru. Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire involved battles, executions, and repression of resistance alongside forced Christianisation. Conquest was framed as spreading the true faith, ending idolatry, and exercising divine authority granted to Christian rulers and missionaries.
Fact
In Sikhism, the founder Guru Nanak is the first in a line of ten Gurus, and Sikhism recognises these teachers as guiding the community in spiritual and ethical life.
Islam and polygamy
Polygamy exposes the imbalance between men and women. In Islam, men may accumulate wives under the pretence of responsibility or charity, while women are granted no equivalent freedom. The emotional and physical realities of such arrangements are ignored in favour of male entitlement sanctioned by scripture. The persistence of this practice, defended even today as divine allowance, speaks clearly about whose interests the religion was created to serve. Defenders often argue that Islam improved women’s status relative to its historical context, yet this defence concedes the central point. A god who merely echoes the morality of his time is not revealing eternal truth but recording local norms. If divine morality must be judged by comparison to seventh-century Arabia, then it is not divine, it is historical.
Quote of the day
“All thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway.
Ask the right question
How does the existence of severe natural disasters and childhood disease fit with the idea of an all powerful and benevolent deity?
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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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.