Weird and Religious
Some Islamic traditions say that when a person dies and is buried, two angels named Munkar and Nakir come into the grave to question the dead person. The grave becomes a kind of interview room where answers determine comfort or distress until the final judgement.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1862, Minnesota in the United States. During the Dakota War, violence included attacks on settlers and reprisals. While driven by land and survival, some Christian rhetoric portrayed events as divine judgement or a struggle between civilisation and heathenism, shaping justification on both sides.
Fact
In Judaism, community life is emphasised, and Judaism gathers people for worship, study, and shared observance in synagogues.
Ordinary texts
The literary quality does not rescue sacred texts. They are uneven, repetitive, vague when clarity matters, and precise when control is required. Rules about punishment and obedience are detailed. Guidance about empathy and evidence is thin. Narratives are embellished, recycled, and borrowed from earlier myths. Flood stories, virgin births, chosen people, divine lawgivers, and end-time fantasies appear across cultures. This is not coincidence. It is plagiarism across centuries, each culture stamping its version with divine branding.
Quote of the day
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.” Epicurus.
Ask the right question
If a soul is immaterial, how does it interact with the physical brain without violating what is known about physics?
Religious Crooks
Hogen Fukunaga led Ho No Hana Sanpogyo in Japan, claiming foot reading spiritual powers, later convicted of fraud after authorities said followers were pressured into paying large sums for supposed spiritual diagnoses.
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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.
If a real God existed, would he allow crooks to act on his behalf?