Weird and Religious
The Aztecs believed certain eclipses were signs that cosmic balance was failing. Pregnant women wore obsidian blades or amulets to protect themselves from supposed harmful forces released during the event.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1804, Haiti. During the revolution, violence included killings of French settlers. While largely anti colonial, some rebels drew on Vodou religious elements and spiritual authority, framing struggle as divinely supported liberation from Christian slaveholders and oppressive religious order.
Fact
In the Baháʼí Faith, prejudice of all kinds is rejected, and the Baháʼí Faith encourages overcoming divisions based on race, religion, or nationality.
Comforting Fiction
The human brain is deeply uncomfortable with mortality. It searches for escape routes, stories, and reassurances because it does not cope well with finality. Death feels wrong at an emotional level, even if it is biologically normal. This discomfort is not philosophical but visceral. The brain rebels against the idea of permanent disappearance, and out of that rebellion came the first comforting fictions. Death became a passage rather than an end. The dead went somewhere; they watched, waited, and returned. Gods were not yet required, but the groundwork was laid. Once death was softened, the imagination took over.
Quote of the day
“Religious faith is a neurological disorder.” Sam Harris.
Ask the right question
If divine communication is real, why is it so easily confused with mental illness, imagination or wishful thinking?
Religious Crooks
Roch Thériault led a breakaway religious sect in Canada known as the Ant Hill Kids, presenting extreme spiritual authority while subjecting followers to abuse, forced labour, and total control over their property and income.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
Throughout history and still to this day, there has never been a shortage of religious leaders who were not always following their own spiritual advice.