Weird and Religious
Ancient Romans kept household gods called Lares and Penates, small figures placed near the hearth. Families made daily offerings to them, treating the kitchen area as a religious centre rather than a purely domestic space.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2019, Christchurch in New Zealand. A white supremacist gunman killed worshippers at two mosques. He used civilisational and anti-Muslim rhetoric with pseudo religious language, presenting violence as defence of a Christian West, drawing on distorted holy war ideas rather than mainstream doctrine.
Fact
In Wicca, the divine is often understood in dual form, and Wicca commonly honours both a Goddess and a God representing complementary aspects of life.
Certainty over evidence
Modern culture is saturated with opinions presented as facts and feelings elevated to authority. The speed and volume of information have made it easier than ever to circulate claims without verification. People increasingly accept what aligns with their existing beliefs and reject what challenges them. This tendency did not originate with social media. Religion normalised it centuries earlier. Faith taught people to trust internal certainty over external evidence and to treat doubt as moral failure rather than intellectual caution.
Quote of the day
“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” Victor J. Stenger.
Ask the right question
How can an all powerful being be offended by human thoughts or private doubts?
Religious Crooks
Brigham Young led the early Mormon community in Utah, combining religious leadership with political and economic control, with historians noting concentrated power over property, labour, and settlement structures tied directly to church authority.
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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.