Weird and Religious
In some Hindu traditions, certain holy men known as Aghori deliberately use things considered impure, including meditating in cremation grounds and using human skulls as bowls. They believe breaking social taboos helps them detach from illusion and fear.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, the universe is described as a battleground between truth and falsehood, and Zoroastrianism presents life as a moral struggle between constructive and destructive forces.
Thrivng on a Weakness
The brain is a pattern-hungry machine that connects dots constantly, whether they belong together or not. This ability helped ancestors track animals, seasons, and threats, but it also causes humans to see meaning in coincidence and order in chaos. Faces appear in clouds, messages appear in random noise, and when two unrelated events occur close together, the brain often treats them as connected. Religion thrives on this weakness. A prayer followed by a positive outcome becomes evidence, and a ritual followed by survival becomes proof. Failed predictions are quietly ignored or reinterpreted, and the pattern survives because the brain wants it to.
Quote of the day
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.” Frater Ravus.
Ask the right question
If divine punishment teaches a lesson, what lesson is learned through eternal punishment?
Religious Crooks
Marcial Maciel was the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic religious order, and was later found by Vatican investigations to have sexually abused minors and seminarians over many years while using his religious status to avoid scrutiny.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
History tells us that wherever fools gathered, there was always a religious crook to take advantage of them. The best way to stop the crooks is not to be a fool.