Weird and Religious
Early Christianity had groups who believed extreme self denial brought them closer to holiness. Some hermits lived on top of pillars for years, exposed to the weather, preaching to people below. These “pillar saints” thought physical suffering purified the soul.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1568 to 1648, parts of the Netherlands and German lands. Conflicts within the Eighty Years War and Thirty Years War saw massacres and destruction tied to Catholic and Protestant divisions. Violence was justified as defending correct doctrine, protecting believers, and ruling territories according to God’s will.
Fact
In the Baháʼí Faith, religious founders such as Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are recognised, and the Baháʼí Faith views them as successive messengers in a single unfolding process of revelation.
Spiritual Awakening
Religion did not descend from the heavens. It emerged from predictable errors in perception, memory, emotion, and social behaviour. The gods were not revealed; they were inferred, assumed, and inherited. This is not an insult to humanity but an explanation of how deeply human religion really is. To move beyond it requires no spiritual awakening. It requires something far simpler and far harder. It requires accepting that the brain we trust to find truth was never built for that task and learning, at last, to compensate for its flaws.
Quote of the day
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” John Lennon.
Ask the right question
What reliable evidence shows that rebirth occurs, beyond personal stories that can also be explained by memory errors or suggestion?
Religious Crooks
Jim Bakker was a US televangelist who built a massive ministry empire and a Christian theme park, then was convicted of fraud and conspiracy after soliciting money from supporters through misleading financial claims.
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Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.