Weird and Religious
In parts of Southern Africa, traditional healers called sangomas are believed to be chosen by ancestors through illness or disturbing dreams. Training involves learning to communicate with spirits, interpret bones thrown on the ground, and diagnose spiritual causes of problems.
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In the name of religion
1987, Lebanon during the civil war. Sectarian militias carried out massacres and reprisals across religious lines, including attacks on villages and camps. Fighters often justified killings as protecting their religious community, avenging earlier atrocities, and defending sacred identity in a fractured, faith divided society.
Fact
In Confucianism, respect for tradition is strong, and Confucianism looks to the past for models of ethical and political order.
Just and merciful?
Another religious inconsistency appears in the claim that god is perfectly just and perfectly merciful. Justice demands consequences proportional to harm, while mercy demands forgiveness, but eternal punishment for finite actions satisfies neither. A god who forgives everything is not just, and a god who punishes forever is not merciful, and trying to hold both qualities simultaneously results in definitions so vague they lose all meaning. Justice becomes whatever god does, and mercy becomes irrelevant.
Quote of the day
“Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do.” George Carlin.
Ask the right question
If a god values life, why design a natural world where extinction is common and most species that ever lived are gone?
Religious Crooks
Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science and promoted spiritual healing through her teachings and books, building a tightly controlled religious publishing structure that critics argued turned theology into a highly profitable, centrally managed enterprise.
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If a real God existed, would he allow crooks to act on his behalf?