Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Aztecs, human sacrifice was not seen as cruelty but as a cosmic duty. They believed the sun needed nourishment in the form of human hearts and blood to continue rising each day. Without these rituals, they thought the world itself would end.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2018, Sri Lanka tensions. Sinhalese Buddhist extremist monks and mobs incited violence against Muslim communities, including riots and property destruction. Agitators justified actions as protecting Buddhism and the nation from perceived Islamic religious and cultural threat.
Fact
In Buddhism, ethical conduct is built around intention, and Buddhism emphasises that the moral quality of an action depends largely on the state of mind behind it.
Agency by default
Early humans had no concept of natural processes operating without intention, and the idea that things could happen for no reason, or for reasons that did not involve choice, was alien to them. Agency was the default assumption, for if something occurred, someone must have made it occur. Gods became the universal answer precisely because they could be applied universally. They were flexible enough to explain anything and invisible enough to avoid contradiction, and when one explanation failed, another divine motive could always be added without disturbing the underlying belief.
Quote of the day
“Religion divides people. It has been a bloody business.” Christopher Hitchens.
Ask the right question
Why do so many religious rituals look like cultural habits rather than universal truths?
Religious Crooks
José Luis de Jesús Miranda led a Puerto Rican based religious movement declaring himself a divine figure, raising large sums from followers while promoting extravagant displays of wealth that critics cited as evidence of religious grift.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.