Weird and Religious
Some early Christian monks believed that demons caused distracting thoughts, including ordinary desires or random ideas. A stray thought about food or comfort could be treated as a literal attack by an invisible being rather than a normal mental process.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1948, Jerusalem and surrounding areas. Irregular Jewish militias and Arab Muslim forces fought during the war surrounding Israel’s creation. Combatants used religious language about sacred land and holy duty to justify expulsions, killings, and control of areas tied to faith identity.
Fact
In Christianity, grace is a key idea, and Christianity describes grace as unearned favour from God rather than something achieved by human effort alone.
Extraordinary submission
It is not incidental that many religions insist faith is most virtuous when belief is hardest, because the more irrational the claim, the more admirable the belief. This reverses the normal relationship between evidence and confidence. In every other domain, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, yet in religion, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary submission.
Quote of the day
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” Voltaire.
Ask the right question
How can reincarnation fit with the growing human population unless new souls are constantly being created?
Religious Crooks
Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël, founded the Raëlian movement claiming extraterrestrial revelations, building an international organisation funded through member contributions, events, and paid programs, with critics describing it as personality centred and commercially structured.
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Today we took a look at yet another religious crook but there are hundreds of thousands of them. You could spend a lifetime researching the topic.