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
1987, Lebanon during the civil war. Sectarian militias carried out massacres and reprisals across religious lines, including attacks on villages and camps. Fighters often justified killings as protecting their religious community, avenging earlier atrocities, and defending sacred identity in a fractured, faith divided society.
Fact
In Jainism, spiritual teachers called Tirthankaras are honoured, and Jainism regards them as guides who showed the path to liberation.
Mentally ill prophets?
Mental illness is sometimes invoked to explain prophetic experiences, but this alone is insufficient and often misleading. Not all prophets show signs of pathology, and not all unusual experiences indicate disorder. What matters is not diagnosis but interpretation. In cultures without scientific understanding of the mind, intense internal experiences are interpreted as external communication. Authority then amplifies them. A voice heard in isolation is a concern. A voice believed by thousands becomes a religion.
Quote of the day
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” Bertrand Russell.
Ask the right question
Why do prophecies in religious texts tend to be vague, symbolic or written after the events they appear to predict?
Religious Crooks
Nithyananda is a Hindu self proclaimed guru accused of sexual abuse, fraud, and financial exploitation of followers, later fleeing India while continuing to present himself as a religious leader.
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Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.