Weird and Religious
In parts of Indonesia, the Toraja people keep the bodies of deceased relatives in the home for months or years. The dead person is spoken to, given food, and treated as sick rather than gone until a major funeral ceremony can be afforded.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1862, Minnesota in the United States. During the Dakota War, violence included attacks on settlers and reprisals. While driven by land and survival, some Christian rhetoric portrayed events as divine judgement or a struggle between civilisation and heathenism, shaping justification on both sides.
Fact
In Jainism, many followers practise vegetarianism, and Jainism extends dietary care to avoid harming even small forms of life.
Fear and Death
Fear is not a weakness in human psychology but one of its oldest tools. Long before humans wondered about truth or meaning, they feared injury, abandonment, and death. Fear kept bodies alive, sharpened attention, and forced caution, yet it also demanded explanation. When early humans became aware of their own mortality, something changed permanently. Death was no longer just something that happened to others; it became inevitable, personal, and unknowable. The mind that could imagine tomorrow could also imagine its own end, and that realisation created a problem no animal before us had faced. How do you live knowing you will stop existing.
Quote of the day
“You can safely assume that you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott.
Ask the right question
If the soul survives death, why does personality change with brain damage, drugs or dementia?
Religious Crooks
Prophet Bushiri style cases exist widely, and a separate example is Paseka Motsoeneng, known as Prophet Mboro, a South African pastor known for sensational miracle claims and paid spiritual services, widely criticised as exploiting belief for income.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.