Weird and Religious
The Zoroastrian religion traditionally avoided burying or burning bodies because both earth and fire were sacred. Corpses were placed in stone towers where birds consumed them, to avoid polluting the natural elements.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1993, Mumbai in India. Muslim perpetrators from criminal networks influenced by Islamist narratives carried out coordinated bombings killing hundreds. The attacks were justified by organisers as revenge for anti Muslim riots and as defence of Muslim honour, blending crime, politics, and religious grievance.
Fact
In Christianity, the concept of the Trinity is important in many traditions, and Christianity describes God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one divine reality.
On being offended
Often, believers are offended by criticism of their religion as if the critic had stabbed them in the back. Offence is not something imposed from outside. It is a reaction rather than an injury. No one possesses the power to offend another person in the same way one has the power to physically harm them. People respond emotionally to ideas, and those responses belong to them. Demanding protection from offence is often a demand to avoid engagement altogether, replacing debate with silence and substituting feeling for reasoning.
Quote of the day
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” Robert M. Pirsig.
Ask the right question
Why would a god allow sincere seekers to arrive at false religious conclusions despite honest effort?
Religious Crooks
Keith Raniere led NXIVM, a group with spiritual and self development framing, and was convicted of sex trafficking and related crimes after evidence showed women were coerced into sexual relationships under his authority.
For more information, google the name.
Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.