Weird and Religious
In ancient Egypt, priests of certain temples shaved every hair on their bodies, including eyebrows and eyelashes, every three days to avoid lice, which they saw as ritually unclean. Cleanliness was not just hygiene but a spiritual requirement.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2016, Syria, sectarian militias. Various Shia and Sunni Muslim militias committed atrocities during the civil war. Fighters justified actions as defending their branch of Islam, protecting shrines, and fighting heretics or unbelievers.
Fact
In Sikhism, equality is strongly emphasised, and Sikhism rejects caste distinctions and teaches that all humans have equal worth.
Gods of war
Survival of early civilisations often depended on winning conflicts over land and resources. Victory felt too important to leave to chance. Gods of war promised strength, protection, and favour. Defeat could be blamed on insufficient devotion rather than poor strategy or bad luck. This preserved morale and authority. Leaders could claim divine backing when successful and divine testing when they failed. Responsibility was displaced upward. The god took the credit or the blame.
Quote of the day
“I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned.” Richard Feynman.
Ask the right question
If revelation is clear, why do legal and moral systems based on scripture require endless interpretation?
Religious Crooks
Sun Myung Moon founded the Unification Church and built a global religious and business empire, facing tax evasion conviction in the United States and long running allegations that followers were subjected to heavy financial pressure.
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.