Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Hebrews, the Ark of the Covenant was believed to be so dangerous that touching it improperly could cause instant death. Stories describe people struck down simply for steadying it when it seemed about to fall, showing how sacred objects were treated as physically hazardous.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2015, Garissa in Kenya. Al Shabaab gunmen attacked a university, killing many students. The attackers separated Muslims from Christians and justified the massacre as jihad, presenting Christians as enemies of Islam and targets in a religious war.
Fact
In Islam, ritual purity is important, and Islam requires washing before prayer and sets out rules concerning cleanliness of body, clothing, and surroundings.
Managing women
Sin became the central tool in maintaining male domination. Women were cast as moral liabilities, sources of temptation, and gateways to corruption. Female sexuality was treated as dangerous by default, while male sexuality was seen as natural and difficult to restrain. The burden of control fell solely on women. Dress codes, segregation, purity laws, and behavioural restrictions were imposed to manage male desire without ever questioning male responsibility. This imbalance appears throughout religions, yet nowhere is it more rigidly codified and actively enforced today than in Islam.
Quote of the day
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” Isaac Asimov.
Ask the right question
If religious law is timeless, why do believers quietly ignore many old rules while insisting others remain binding?
Religious Crooks
Sergei Torop, known as Vissarion, founded the Church of the Last Testament in Siberia, claiming messianic status and leading a remote community where followers gave up property and income, later detained amid allegations of financial and psychological exploitation.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.