Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Celts, the human head was considered the seat of the soul. Skulls of enemies were sometimes kept as trophies, not just as symbols of victory but as objects thought to hold spiritual power.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1992 to 1995, Bosnia. Serb Orthodox, Croat Catholic, and Bosniak Muslim forces committed ethnic cleansing, sieges, and massacres. Religious identity markers were used to justify expulsion and killing, portraying war as defence of faith communities and sacred national heritage.
Fact
In Islam, ritual purity is important, and Islam requires washing before prayer and sets out rules concerning cleanliness of body, clothing, and surroundings.
Women under Islam
The language of protection is frequently used to conceal uncomfortable realities. Women are described as valued, honoured, or safeguarded, yet in practice protection means restriction, honour means control, and value means obedience. Women are protected from freedom, from independence, and from equality, and the cost of this protection is borne entirely by them. Religion calls this order. The world recognises it as subordination. What makes this particularly striking in Islam is not only the content of its rules but their continued enforcement. In many Islamic societies today, women’s lives remain constrained by religious law. Education, movement, dress, marriage, and speech are all regulated in the name of god. Dissent is punished, and noncompliance is labelled immorality. The system does not merely reflect inequality. It institutionalises it and defends it as sacred.
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
If revelation is clear, why do legal and moral systems based on scripture require endless interpretation?
Religious Crooks
Paul Schäfer led Colonia Dignidad in Chile, presenting it as a Christian community while running an isolated compound where followers’ labour and assets were controlled, later exposed as a site of extensive abuse and corruption.
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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.
History tells us that wherever fools gathered, there was always a religious crook to take advantage of them. The best way to stop the crooks is not to be a fool.