Weird and Religious
In ancient Greece, people visited healing temples dedicated to Asclepius, where they slept in the temple hoping the god would appear in dreams and prescribe a cure. Priests then interpreted the dreams as medical advice.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1618, Bohemia in central Europe. Early Thirty Years War violence followed religious and political confrontation between Protestant nobles and Catholic authority. Each side justified armed action as defending the true Christian faith and resisting religious oppression imposed by rival confessions.
Fact
In Taoism, inner stillness is encouraged, and Taoism uses quiet reflection and meditation to align the mind with the deeper flow of reality.
Death as transition
For frightened early humans, death demanded an explanation most of all, for it was the ultimate disruption and the ultimate unknown. Religion softened death by embedding it within a story in which the dead did not simply stop but went somewhere to be judged, rewarded, punished, or transformed. Death became not an end but a transition, and this reframing made grief survivable and fear manageable. The absence of evidence did not matter because no alternative explanation could compete emotionally with the promise of continued existence and reunion.
Quote of the day
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” Mark Twain.
Ask the right question
If a god values honesty, why reward belief based on faith rather than evidence?
Religious Crooks
Benny Hinn is a televangelist known for large healing crusades and prosperity preaching, long criticised for lavish lifestyle and opaque ministry finances, with investigations questioning how donated funds were used.
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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.
Throughout history and still to this day, there has never been a shortage of religious leaders who were not always following their own spiritual advice.