Weird and Religious
There have also been religions built around very recent figures. In parts of Melanesia in the twentieth century, “cargo cults” formed where people believed Western goods came from ancestral spirits. They built imitation airstrips and control towers from wood, performing rituals in the hope that planes full of supplies would return.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1992 to 1995, Bosnia. Serb Orthodox, Croat Catholic, and Bosniak Muslim forces committed ethnic cleansing, sieges, and massacres. Religious identity markers were used to justify expulsion and killing, portraying war as defence of faith communities and sacred national heritage.
Fact
In Judaism, rabbinic tradition plays an important role, and Judaism uses generations of legal discussion to interpret how commandments apply in practical life.
Confirming belief
Reason operates by testing ideas against reality, demanding coherence, consistency, and evidence. It accepts uncertainty and revises conclusions when new information appears. Faith does the reverse. It begins with a conclusion and defends it regardless of contradiction. Discrepancies are reinterpreted, absence of evidence becomes a test, and failed predictions become mysteries. Every outcome is made to confirm belief because belief has been placed beyond evaluation. This is not strength but insulation.
Quote of the day
“Men would never be superstitious if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune.” Baruch Spinoza.
Ask the right question
If miracles once happened openly, why do they now occur only in ways that are indistinguishable from coincidence or natural recovery?
Religious Crooks
Roch Thériault led a breakaway sect in Canada known as the Ant Hill Kids, presenting extreme religious authority while subjecting followers to abuse, forced labour, and financial control, later convicted of multiple crimes.
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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.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.