Weird and Religious
The Kaaba in Mecca, now the central shrine of Islam, contained many tribal idols before Islam. Pilgrimage to the site already existed, and different groups visited to honour their own gods. Islam kept the pilgrimage but removed the idols and redefined the focus to one God.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2011, Jos region in Nigeria. Clashes between Christian and Muslim communities led to massacres and village destruction. Both sides justified violence as protecting their faith groups, defending land seen as religiously tied, and avenging earlier killings.
Fact
In Confucianism, proper conduct in relationships is structured, and Confucianism describes roles such as ruler and subject, parent and child, and friend and friend.
Common flaws
The Qur’an, the Bible, and the Torah are often treated as fundamentally different, but their flaws are remarkably similar. Each reflects the social structure of its time. Each encodes power relations. Each demands submission. Each resists scrutiny. Each claims perfection while requiring armies of interpreters to explain away its failures. If these books were presented today without their sacred status, they would be rejected as the products of their era, not revelations from beyond it.
Quote of the day
“The invisible and the non existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown.
Ask the right question
After Noah's flood, how did animals unique to isolated regions, such as kangaroos in Australia or lemurs in Madagascar, return to those places?
Religious Crooks
Jim Bakker was a US televangelist who built a massive ministry empire and a Christian theme park, then was convicted of fraud and conspiracy after soliciting money from supporters through misleading financial claims.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
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.