Weird and Religious
Some Buddhist traditions describe entire realms of existence where beings suffer extreme conditions for vast periods because of past actions. These hell realms are not eternal but can last longer than the entire span of human civilisation.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1915, Ottoman Empire, Armenian regions. Armenian Christians were deported and killed in mass atrocities. Perpetrators portrayed Armenians as traitors and outsiders, using Muslim identity politics and wartime religious division to justify removal of a Christian minority.
Fact
In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths explain that Buddhism begins with recognising that life involves suffering, that suffering has causes linked to desire, that suffering can end, and that there is a path leading to its end.
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
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means.” George Bernard Shaw.
Ask the right question
Why do faith healings fail under controlled scientific testing?
Religious Crooks
David Berg founded the Children of God movement, later called The Family International, promoting radical religious teachings while encouraging followers to surrender money and, according to former members, using sexuality and spiritual pressure as tools of control.
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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.