Weird and Religious
In medieval Europe, people believed that church bells could drive away storms and demons. Bells were blessed with holy water and given names, and ringing them during bad weather was meant to protect crops and villages.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
In Buddhism, the concept of emptiness is central in some traditions, and Buddhism uses this idea to show that things do not possess independent, fixed essence but exist through relationships and conditions.
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 is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.” Karl Marx.
Ask the right question
Why does divine revelation depend so heavily on the time, place and culture of the people receiving it?
Religious Crooks
Julio César Grassi is an Argentine Catholic priest who founded a charity for vulnerable children and was later convicted of sexually abusing minors in his care, with investigations showing how his religious and charitable status helped shield him for years.
For more information, google the name.
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.