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
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
In the Baháʼí Faith, prejudice of all kinds is rejected, and the Baháʼí Faith encourages overcoming divisions based on race, religion, or nationality.
Redefining God
Faced with contradictions, scientific refutation, and moral embarrassment, many modern believers no longer defend the god their scriptures describe. They quietly replace him. God becomes energy, love, consciousness, the universe, the ground of being, or something intentionally undefined. Redefining God as energy is a failure. Energy is a defined physical concept with measurable properties. It is not conscious. It does not care. It does not command or judge. To equate god with energy is to misuse scientific language while abandoning every traditional religious claim. No one prays to kinetic energy, and no one obeys thermodynamics. This definition hides behind vagueness while pretending to engage with science.
Quote of the day
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has.” Martin Luther.
Ask the right question
Why do gods in scriptures sometimes change their mind, express regret or alter plans?
Religious Crooks
Keith Raniere led NXIVM, a group with spiritual and self development framing, and was convicted of sex trafficking and related crimes after evidence showed women were coerced into sexual relationships under his authority.
For more information, google the name.
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.
Today we took a look at yet another religious crook but there are hundreds of thousands of them. You could spend a lifetime researching the topic.