Weird and Religious
In parts of West Africa, the Yoruba tradition includes a god of iron, war, and technology called Ogun, who is believed to govern not only weapons but also modern tools such as cars and machinery. Road accidents are sometimes linked to displeasing Ogun, blending ancient belief with modern life.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2014, Central African Republic. Christian anti Balaka militias and Muslim Seleka factions attacked civilians. Fighters justified killings as defence of Christian or Muslim communities, turning political collapse into religiously framed communal warfare.
Fact
In Islam, hadith literature is important, and Islam uses reports about the words and actions of Muhammad as a major source for understanding religious practice and law alongside the Qur an.
Thrivng on a Weakness
The brain is a pattern-hungry machine that connects dots constantly, whether they belong together or not. This ability helped ancestors track animals, seasons, and threats, but it also causes humans to see meaning in coincidence and order in chaos. Faces appear in clouds, messages appear in random noise, and when two unrelated events occur close together, the brain often treats them as connected. Religion thrives on this weakness. A prayer followed by a positive outcome becomes evidence, and a ritual followed by survival becomes proof. Failed predictions are quietly ignored or reinterpreted, and the pattern survives because the brain wants it to.
Quote of the day
“Religion is the one area of our discourse in which it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about.” Sam Harris.
Ask the right question
How can reincarnation fit with the growing human population unless new souls are constantly being created?
Religious Crooks
Samuel Bateman, a breakaway Mormon fundamentalist leader, claimed prophetic status and controlled a closed religious community, later arrested on serious criminal charges, with authorities alleging that religious authority was used to dominate members and their assets.
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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.