Weird and Religious
In medieval Christianity, pieces of saints’ bodies were treated as powerful objects. Churches claimed to possess multiple skulls or bones of the same saint, sometimes more body parts than one person could physically have had. Pilgrims still travelled long distances to see them.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1804, Haiti. During the revolution, violence included killings of French settlers. While largely anti colonial, some rebels drew on Vodou religious elements and spiritual authority, framing struggle as divinely supported liberation from Christian slaveholders and oppressive religious order.
Fact
In Shinto, the spiritual and everyday worlds are closely connected, and Shinto does not strongly separate religious life from daily activities.
Mysterious apologetics
A religious apologist is an individual who engages in the systematic defense, justification, and explanation of religious doctrines, faith, and beliefs, often using logic, scripture, philosophy, and historical evidence. A familiar move in apologetics is the appeal to mystery. When logic fails, god’s ways are declared beyond human understanding, closing the discussion while pretending to honour humility. It is not humility but evasion. Mystery becomes the final refuge when every other defence has failed, and what remains is not wisdom but resignation disguised as reverence.
Quote of the day
“Religion is like a glowworm. It needs darkness to shine.” Arthur Schopenhauer.
Ask the right question
Why does religious certainty often correlate more with upbringing than with independent investigation?
Religious Crooks
Benny Hinn is a televangelist known for large healing crusades and prosperity preaching, long criticised for lavish lifestyle and opaque ministry finances, with investigations questioning how donated funds were used.
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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.