Weird and Religious
There is a belief in Islam that every human being has a personal jinn companion called a qarin. This unseen being is said to whisper suggestions and temptations throughout a person’s life. The idea presents inner thoughts and impulses as partly influenced by an invisible parallel creature.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1857, northern India. During the Indian Rebellion, massacres and reprisals occurred on both sides. Religious fears over conversion and defilement played a role. Participants justified violence as defending Islam or Hindu tradition and protecting sacred customs from perceived foreign religious threat.
Fact
In Buddhism, suffering is linked to craving, as Buddhism teaches that attachment to desires, people, and ideas is a major source of dissatisfaction and distress.
Faith doesn't ask questions
Faith is often presented as a noble quality, something higher than ordinary thinking, praised as humility, trust, or spiritual strength. In truth, faith is belief without evidence and often in defiance of it. It is not an alternative path to knowledge but the abandonment of knowing altogether. Where reason asks questions, faith demands acceptance. Where evidence invites revision, faith insists on loyalty. Religion does not merely tolerate this; it glorifies it.
Quote of the day
“The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” George Bernard Shaw.
Ask the right question
Why do religious people thank god for recoveries but not blame god for the disease in the first place?
Religious Crooks
Asaram Bapu is an Indian Hindu guru who built a large following and network of ashrams, later convicted of rape, with long standing accusations that his religious status was used to exploit devotees.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.