Weird and Religious
Some early Christian monks believed that demons caused distracting thoughts, including ordinary desires or random ideas. A stray thought about food or comfort could be treated as a literal attack by an invisible being rather than a normal mental process.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1572, Paris and other French cities. Catholic mobs killed thousands of Huguenot Protestants in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre. Violence was justified as defending Catholic faith from heresy and protecting the kingdom from supposed Protestant plots against God’s order and divinely sanctioned monarchy.
Fact
In Sikhism, courage and willingness to defend justice are valued, and Sikhism includes a history of resisting oppression.
Poor logic
Religion claims that morality comes from god while simultaneously claiming that god’s morality is beyond human understanding. This makes moral reasoning impossible. If humans cannot judge god’s commands, then morality is obedience, not ethics, yet believers routinely judge actions as good because god commanded them. This assumes moral understanding after denying it, and the logic contradicts itself at every step.
Quote of the day
“Religion divides people. It has been a bloody business.” Christopher Hitchens.
Ask the right question
Why are supernatural explanations usually replaced by natural ones as knowledge grows, but never the reverse?
Religious Crooks
Peter Foster posed as a wellness and spiritual lifestyle entrepreneur with religious overtones in some ventures, repeatedly convicted of fraud, illustrating how spiritual language can be blended with classic financial scams.
For more information, google the name.
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.
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.