Weird and Religious
During the Middle Ages, there were official church debates about how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. While partly exaggerated later, it reflects how abstract speculation about invisible beings was treated as serious intellectual work.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1857, northern India. During the Indian Rebellion, massacres and reprisals occurred on both sides. Religious fears over conversion and defilement played a role. Participants justified violence as defending Islam or Hindu tradition and protecting sacred customs from perceived foreign religious threat.
Fact
In Sikhism, superstition and empty ritual are discouraged, and Sikhism emphasises sincere devotion and ethical living over external display.
Sacred myths
If a god wrote the scriptures, the result is inexplicable. The creator of reality chose to communicate through error, contradiction, cruelty, and ambiguity, then punished humans for misunderstanding the message. This explanation demands far more faith than the alternative. That these texts were written by people trying to understand their world, justify their power, and impose order using the myths available to them.
Quote of the day
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” Benjamin Franklin.
Ask the right question
If a god is all knowing, did that god know every sin before creating the person who would commit it, and if so how is that person morally responsible?
Religious Crooks
Samuel Bateman, a breakaway Mormon fundamentalist leader, claimed prophetic status and controlled a closed religious community, later arrested on serious criminal charges, with authorities alleging that religious authority was used to dominate members and their assets.
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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.