Weird and Religious
Some strands of Buddhism in Japan developed warrior monks who took part in armed conflict. These monks combined religious life with military training and sometimes marched on cities to pressure political authorities, showing that monastic life did not always mean peace.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1991, Algeria civil conflict. Islamist groups targeted civilians, intellectuals, and foreigners during insurgency. Violence was justified as jihad to overthrow a secular state, enforce Islamic rule, and punish those seen as enemies of Islam.
Fact
In Hinduism, varna is a traditional way of describing social roles and duties, and it is historically linked to the later development of caste, which shaped expectations about work and responsibility.
TScience explains the world
When science contradicts religion, it does not do so out of hostility but out of evidence. Creation myths, miracles, divine timelines, and supernatural interventions are not competing explanations. They are incorrect ones. Their survival depends not on truth but on the willingness of believers to ignore or reinterpret reality. Religion once claimed to explain the world. Science tested those claims and found them false. What remains of religion after this process is not knowledge but belief stripped of content and defended by faith alone. The conflict between them is not a misunderstanding. It marks the moment when religion stopped explaining and began resisting.
Quote of the day
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” Christopher Hitchens.
Ask the right question
If prayer works, why do large scale studies show no measurable difference in outcomes?
Religious Crooks
Jim Jones led the Peoples Temple, presenting a mix of Christian and socialist religious themes while building a tightly controlled movement that channelled members’ money and property into the organisation, ending in the Jonestown mass deaths after years of reported financial, psychological, and physical abuse within the group.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.