Weird and Religious
Among the ancient Aztecs, human sacrifice was not seen as cruelty but as a cosmic duty. They believed the sun needed nourishment in the form of human hearts and blood to continue rising each day. Without these rituals, they thought the world itself would end.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
Hinduism teaches that reality is guided by dharma, a principle of moral order and personal duty that shapes how individuals are expected to live in a way that supports balance in family life, society, nature, and the wider universe.
Shifting from the absurd
When some stories in the scriptures were exposed as ridiculous and absurd, religion explained them by shifting from literal meaning to metaphors.This shift reveals something important. The meaning of the stories did not change because new insight was discovered; it changed because the old interpretation could no longer survive exposure. Literalism was abandoned only when it became indefensible. The authority that once demanded belief in the impossible now demanded reinterpretation of the same text, and the claim of divine clarity did not survive contact with human understanding.
Quote of the day
“Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Ask the right question
If miracles suspend natural laws, how can science function reliably in a world where laws can be overridden at any time?
Religious Crooks
Uriel da Costa style historical critics exist, but a clearer modern example is Paul Mackenzie of Kenya, a preacher who urged followers to starve in order to meet Jesus, leading to mass deaths and investigations into how religious control over believers was used in a closed community setting.
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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.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.