Weird and Religious
There are reports in Islamic tradition that the Prophet’s night journey involved travelling from Mecca to Jerusalem and then ascending through multiple heavens in a single night, meeting earlier prophets along the way and seeing paradise and hell. The journey is presented as both physical and supernatural.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2002, Gujarat, India, Akshardham Temple attack. Islamist militants attacked a Hindu temple complex, killing visitors. Attackers justified the assault as jihad and retaliation linked to broader grievances, portraying Hindu civilians as legitimate targets in a religious struggle.
Fact
In Christianity, prayer is an important practice, and Christianity encourages communication with God through praise, confession, thanks, and requests.
Religion and women
Every major religion claims moral authority, yet few areas expose their human origin more clearly than their treatment of women. The rules governing women’s bodies, choices, and lives are not subtle philosophical accidents but systematic, obsessive, and deeply revealing constructions. Across scriptures, women appear not as full moral agents but as problems to be managed, possessions to be guarded, or temptations to be controlled, and this is not divine wisdom but patriarchy given supernatural approval.
Quote of the day
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” Seneca.
Ask the right question
If morality comes only from god, why do moral standards change over time even within the same religion?
Religious Crooks
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho, led a wealthy spiritual movement that established a commune in the United States, where senior members carried out crimes including immigration fraud and a bioterror attack, with the movement widely criticised as financially exploitative.
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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.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.