Weird and Religious
Ancient Romans kept household gods called Lares and Penates, small figures placed near the hearth. Families made daily offerings to them, treating the kitchen area as a religious centre rather than a purely domestic space.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2019, Christchurch in New Zealand. A white supremacist gunman killed worshippers at two mosques. He used civilisational and anti-Muslim rhetoric with pseudo religious language, presenting violence as defence of a Christian West, drawing on distorted holy war ideas rather than mainstream doctrine.
Fact
In Jainism, truthfulness is a key vow, and Jainism teaches avoiding falsehood and harmful speech.
Islam and polygamy
Polygamy exposes the imbalance between men and women. In Islam, men may accumulate wives under the pretence of responsibility or charity, while women are granted no equivalent freedom. The emotional and physical realities of such arrangements are ignored in favour of male entitlement sanctioned by scripture. The persistence of this practice, defended even today as divine allowance, speaks clearly about whose interests the religion was created to serve. Defenders often argue that Islam improved women’s status relative to its historical context, yet this defence concedes the central point. A god who merely echoes the morality of his time is not revealing eternal truth but recording local norms. If divine morality must be judged by comparison to seventh-century Arabia, then it is not divine, it is historical.
Quote of the day
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” Benjamin Disraeli.
Ask the right question
If a perfect being inspired scripture, why is interpretation so disputed that thousands of denominations and sects exist?
Religious Crooks
Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël, founded the Raëlian movement claiming extraterrestrial revelations, building an international organisation that critics say operates as a personality centred system sustained by member donations and paid events.
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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.