Weird and Religious
Across many cultures, human sacrifice was often justified as a trade. A human life was offered in exchange for rain, victory, fertility, or protection. The act was framed not as cruelty but as a transaction with unseen powers believed to control survival itself.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1994, Rwanda. Christian majority context. While mainly ethnic, church spaces were massacre sites and some clergy were complicit. Extremists manipulated Christian language about obedience and order, using religious authority structures to legitimise control, while others resisted and sheltered victims.
Fact
In Islam, recitation of the Qur an in Arabic is central to worship, and Islam places value on memorisation and correct pronunciation of the text that is considered "revealed".
Contradictions in religion
Religion presents itself as internally consistent and logically complete, yet it survives only by asking believers to hold mutually incompatible ideas at the same time. These contradictions are not minor theological quirks; they sit at the core of religious belief and cannot be resolved without abandoning either reason or honesty. The most common response is not to solve them but to normalise them, teaching believers that contradiction is mystery and confusion is depth. One of the clearest examples is the claim that god is all powerful and that everything happens according to god’s will while simultaneously insisting that god is not responsible for evil. If god controls all events, then god controls evil, and if god does not control evil, then god is not all powerful. There is no third option that preserves both claims.
Quote of the day
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” Arthur Schopenhauer.
Ask the right question
If divine communication is real, why is it so easily confused with mental illness, imagination or wishful thinking?
Religious Crooks
Sogyal Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and founder of Rigpa, with multiple former students accusing him of sexual and physical abuse, leading to his resignation after an internal letter and subsequent scrutiny exposed long standing allegations.
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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.
History tells us that wherever fools gathered, there was always a religious crook to take advantage of them. The best way to stop the crooks is not to be a fool.