Weird and Religious
The medieval Catholic practice of selling indulgences promised to reduce time in purgatory in exchange for money or acts. This commercial approach to the afterlife later helped spark the Protestant Reformation.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2018, Burkina Faso. Islamist militants attacked churches and Christian villages. Groups justified violence as jihad, targeting Christians and local Muslims who cooperated with the state, aiming to impose their version of Islamic rule.
Fact
In Buddhism, suffering is not seen as punishment, and Buddhism treats it as a natural part of conditioned existence that can be understood and reduced through practice.
Religion and virginity
Virginity is a religious fixation. Female worth is tied to sexual purity in ways that have no equivalent for men. A woman’s past becomes moral currency, while a man’s past is largely irrelevant. Honour becomes something men possess and women can destroy, producing violence, abandonment, and exclusion with grim regularity. These consequences are not distortions of religious intent but logical outcomes of doctrines that treat women as vessels of honour rather than autonomous human beings.
Quote of the day
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil, but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
Why should extraordinary supernatural claims be exempt from the same standards of evidence used in every other field?
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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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
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.