Weird and Religious
In ancient China, oracle bones were used to ask questions of ancestors or gods. Priests carved questions onto animal bones or turtle shells, then heated them until cracks formed. The pattern of cracks was read as an answer from the spirit world, making burnt bone a decision making device.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1996, Afghanistan, including Kabul. The Taliban seized power and imposed severe punishments, public executions, and strict social rules. They justified coercion and violence as enforcing Sharia, purifying society, and restoring Islamic order after chaos, labelling opponents as un-Islamic or corrupt.
Fact
In Taoism, harmony with the Tao is the ideal, and Taoism encourages living in a way that flows naturally with the patterns of nature rather than forcing outcomes.
Whose plan is it?
Prayer exposes yet another contradiction. Believers are told that god has a plan that cannot be altered, yet they are encouraged to pray to change outcomes. Either prayer affects events or it does not. If it does, then god’s plan is flexible and incomplete, and if it does not, prayer is ritualised self-deception. Saying that prayer changes the person rather than the outcome quietly abandons the original claim while preserving the habit.
Quote of the day
“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.” Friedrich Nietzsche.
Ask the right question
Why would an all powerful being choose fragile human memory and copying as the method to preserve an eternal message?
Religious Crooks
Peter Foster posed as a wellness and spiritual lifestyle entrepreneur with religious overtones in some ventures, repeatedly convicted of fraud, illustrating how spiritual language can be blended with classic financial scams.
For more information, google the name.
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.