Weird and Religious
In some Pacific cultures, ancestors were believed to return as sharks or other animals, and harming such a creature could be seen as harming a relative. The line between human and animal identity was not fixed.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2019, Christchurch in New Zealand. A white supremacist gunman killed worshippers at two mosques. He used civilisational and anti-Muslim rhetoric with pseudo religious language, presenting violence as defence of a Christian West, drawing on distorted holy war ideas rather than mainstream doctrine.
Fact
In Christianity, the idea of the kingdom of God is important, and Christianity speaks of God’s rule as both a present spiritual reality and a future fulfilment.
Created for punishment
The concept of creation is riddled with inconsistency. God is said to create humans with desires, impulses, and limitations, then punish them for acting on those traits. This would be unacceptable in any human context. Designing a flawed system and blaming its components for failure is not wisdom but abdication of responsibility, and religion insists this is justice only because god is exempted from the standards applied to everything else.
Quote of the day
“Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do.” George Carlin.
Ask the right question
Why do religious conversion experiences occur in every religion and point in different directions?
Religious Crooks
Nithyananda is a Hindu self proclaimed guru accused of sexual abuse, fraud, and financial exploitation of followers, later fleeing India while continuing to present himself as a religious leader.
For more information, google the name.
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.