Weird and Religious
In ancient Greece, there were curse tablets where people scratched the names of enemies onto thin sheets of lead and buried them in graves or wells. They asked gods or spirits of the dead to harm rivals in love, business, or court cases. Religion functioned as a supernatural legal weapon.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1478 onward, Spain. The Spanish Inquisition targeted Jews and Muslims who had converted to Christianity but were suspected of false belief. Arrests, torture, and executions were justified as defending Catholic orthodoxy, purifying society, and saving souls from heresy and divine punishment.
Fact
In Christianity, moral teaching includes guidance on honesty, sexual behaviour, justice, and care for the poor, and Christianity links these to living according to God’s will.
Why religion survives
Religions like to present belief as a thoughtful commitment, a position reached through reflection, study, and understanding, yet in practice most believers know remarkably little about what they claim to believe. Their faith is inherited, not examined. It is absorbed through family, community, and repetition, not through reading or analysis. Religion survives not because its followers understand it, but because they do not.
Quote of the day
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil, but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
Why would a designer use the same anatomical flaws, such as the blind spot in the eye or the risk of choking due to a shared airway, in so many species?
Religious Crooks
Shin Ok-ju led the Grace Road Church movement linked to Fiji, presenting prophetic authority and was later convicted in South Korea for abuse of followers, with reports including coercion and mistreatment within a closed religious 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.