Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Celts, the human head was considered the seat of the soul. Skulls of enemies were sometimes kept as trophies, not just as symbols of victory but as objects thought to hold spiritual power.
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 Jainism, many followers practise vegetarianism, and Jainism extends dietary care to avoid harming even small forms of life.
Personal experience and truth
The idea of subjective truth is often defended as a recognition of personal experience, but it becomes dangerous the moment it leaves the private realm and enters public decision-making. A person may prefer chocolate over vanilla, and no harm follows from that preference. Problems arise when subjective belief is treated as equivalent to objective fact in matters that affect others. Claims about health, history, morality, or reality itself cannot be resolved by personal feeling without consequences. Religion collapses this boundary deliberately. It takes unverifiable claims and demands public obedience to them.
Quote of the day
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.” Bertrand Russell.
Ask the right question
If religious stories are symbolic, how does one decide which parts are metaphor and which are historical fact?
Religious Crooks
José Luis de Jesús Miranda led a Puerto Rican based religious movement declaring himself a divine figure, raising large sums from followers while promoting extravagant displays of wealth that critics cited as evidence of religious grift.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.