Weird and Religious
In parts of Southeast Asia, spirit houses are built outside homes or businesses to give local spirits a place to live. Offerings of food, drinks, or incense are made so the spirits do not cause trouble, creating a parallel unseen household beside the human one.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1099, Jerusalem in the Levant. Crusader armies captured the city during the First Crusade and killed many Muslim and Jewish inhabitants while seizing holy sites. Leaders described the assault as a sacred duty to liberate Christ’s tomb, forgive sins, and serve God through sanctioned holy war.
Fact
In Judaism, there is an expectation of a future age of peace, and Judaism includes hope for a messianic era of justice and restoration.
An imagined solution
God is not an answer revealed from beyond the world but the imagined solution to mortality, uncertainty, and powerlessness. It is the story humans told themselves when reality was too harsh and too silent. That story worked well enough to survive for thousands of years, and its success says nothing about its truth. It says everything about the human mind that created it.
Quote of the day
“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.” Arthur Keith.
Ask the right question
Why do religious moral codes often lag behind secular ethical developments?
Religious Crooks
Swami Premananda was a Hindu guru who ran an ashram in India and attracted international followers, later convicted of rape and linked to additional serious crimes, with courts finding that his spiritual authority was used to control and exploit devotees.
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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.