Weird and Religious
Among the Dinka people of South Sudan, cattle are deeply woven into spiritual life. Cows are given personal names, songs are sung to them, and their colours and horn shapes can have ritual meaning. A person’s identity and spiritual world can revolve around their cattle as much as their family.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1997, Luxor in Egypt. Islamist militants attacked tourists at Hatshepsut Temple, killing many people. The assault was justified by perpetrators as striking infidels and damaging Egypt’s economy to weaken the state, framed as jihad against an un-Islamic government and foreign presence.
Fact
In Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib is the sacred scripture, and Sikhism treats this text as the final and living Guru.
Sincere prophets
Some of God's so-called messengers are sincere and mistaken. They experience visions, voices, or overwhelming convictions and interpret them through the cultural framework available to them. In a world steeped in superstition, internal experiences are easily externalised. Dreams feel like messages. Intuition feels like command. Emotional surges feel like revelation. These individuals are not lying in the ordinary sense. They are convinced. But conviction is not evidence. History is full of people who believed extraordinary things about themselves and were wrong.
Quote of the day
“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.” H. L. Mencken.
Ask the right question
Why would a god reveal different and conflicting rules to different groups of people?
Religious Crooks
Victor Kusi Boateng is a Ghanaian pastor and political religious figure whose finances and identity details became the subject of investigation, with controversy over how religious status intersected with money and influence.
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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.