Weird and Religious
In ancient Rome, priests known as augurs interpreted the will of the gods by watching birds. The direction of flight, their calls, and even how chickens ate grain could influence state decisions such as whether to go to war.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1984, Amritsar in India. Indian forces stormed the Golden Temple complex to remove Sikh militants, causing heavy casualties and damage to a sacred site. Militants had framed their campaign as defence of Sikh faith and rights, while the state justified action as restoring order.
Fact
In Sikhism, belief centres on one formless God, and Sikhism teaches that this divine reality is beyond images and present everywhere.
Free Will collapse
Believers are trained to stop questioning at the point where logic becomes uncomfortable. Mystery is invoked, faith is praised, and doubt is moralised, and the contradictions are not solved because solving them would collapse the belief structure entirely.
Free Will, in particular, functions as a universal excuse. It is used to absolve god of evil, justify punishment, and preserve the illusion of moral responsibility, yet it cannot coexist with omniscience, divine planning, or eternal judgement, and it collapses under even minimal examination.
Quote of the day
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
Why does religious certainty often correlate more with upbringing than with independent investigation?
Religious Crooks
Sun Myung Moon’s case centres more on finances, so for sexual misconduct specifically take Mitsuo Matayoshi out and include T. B. Joshua’s associate Timothy Omotoso, a Nigerian pastor in South Africa, charged with multiple sexual offences, with prosecutors alleging that religious authority was used to recruit and control victims.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.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.