Weird and Religious
In parts of Southeast Asia, spirit houses are built outside homes or businesses to give local spirits a place to live. Offerings of food, drinks, or incense are made so the spirits do not cause trouble, creating a parallel unseen household beside the human one.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1998, Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Christian and Muslim militias clashed in communal warfare, burning villages and killing civilians. Both sides justified violence as defence of their Christian or Muslim faith communities, protection of churches or mosques, and resistance to domination.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, religious identity has historical ties to Persian culture, and Zoroastrianism has influenced later religious traditions in the region.
The edge of knowledge
Science does not pretend to answer questions that cannot be tested. It explains what can be observed, measured, and inferred, and it stops where evidence ends. There is no scientific explanation for why the universe exists, or whether the word why has any meaning when applied to existence itself. Time may not be an eternal backdrop but a property that began with the universe. If time began then questions about what came before lose coherence. Asking why something exists may assume a cause where none is required, for the universe may simply be, without intention, purpose, or origin in the way human experience defines those terms. This uncertainty is not a failure of science but a boundary that marks the edge of knowledge. Progress depends on respecting that edge rather than filling it with invention. Religion does the opposite. It inserts certainty precisely where knowledge is impossible and calls this wisdom. Where honesty would say we do not know, religion provides answers that cannot be tested and must never be doubted. This does not resolve the question of purpose. It conceals it behind comforting stories that demand faith instead of thought.
Quote of the day
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire.
Ask the right question
If humans once lived for hundreds of years as some traditions claim, where is the biological evidence that such lifespans were ever possible?
Religious Crooks
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar leads the Art of Living Foundation, presenting spiritual and breathing practices worldwide, while critics have questioned the organisation’s finances, land use, and commercialisation of spirituality despite its charitable image.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.