Weird and Religious
The Zoroastrian religion traditionally avoided burying or burning bodies because both earth and fire were sacred. Corpses were placed in stone towers where birds consumed them, to avoid polluting the natural elements.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2016, Syria, sectarian militias. Various Shia and Sunni Muslim militias committed atrocities during the civil war. Fighters justified actions as defending their branch of Islam, protecting shrines, and fighting heretics or unbelievers.
Fact
In Jainism, fasting is practised, and Jainism links voluntary fasting to discipline and spiritual progress.
Fear, death, and imagination
To understand religion, one does not need revelation or faith but an understanding of fear, death, and imagination. When those forces combine in a self-aware species trapped in a dangerous world, gods are not surprising; they are inevitable. The real question is not why humans believed in gods but why so many still do now that the original fears can finally be faced without inventing stories to hide from them.
Quote of the day
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.” Frater Ravus.
Ask the right question
Why do sacred texts contain descriptions of the natural world that match ancient beliefs rather than modern scientific knowledge?
Religious Crooks
Valentina de Andrade led a Brazilian UFO religion called Lineamentum, mixing esoteric belief with hierarchical control, later convicted in a case involving deaths of children, with the group described as secretive and manipulative.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.