Weird and Religious
Some medieval saints were believed to produce a pleasant smell after death, called the “odour of sanctity.” A sweet scent from a corpse was taken as proof of holiness rather than a natural process of decay.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1857, northern India. During the Indian Rebellion, massacres and reprisals occurred on both sides. Religious fears over conversion and defilement played a role. Participants justified violence as defending Islam or Hindu tradition and protecting sacred customs from perceived foreign religious threat.
Fact
In Hinduism, bhakti is a major path centred on devotion to a chosen deity, involving prayer, singing, ritual acts, and a personal emotional connection with the divine.
Why religion survives
One of the ways religion survives is through rituals, which reinforces the structure. Repetition creates familiarity, familiarity breeds comfort, and comfort becomes attachment. Prayers, songs, gestures, and ceremonies embed belief into the body as much as into the mind. The doctrine no longer requires comprehension. It is felt rather than understood. Emotional conditioning replaces intellectual conviction. This is why religion can survive even when its content is barely known. The form itself sustains the faith.
Quote of the day
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.” Michel de Montaigne.
Ask the right question
If a god values life, why design a natural world where extinction is common and most species that ever lived are gone?
Religious Crooks
Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science and promoted spiritual healing through her teachings and books, building a tightly controlled religious publishing structure that critics argued turned theology into a highly profitable, centrally managed enterprise.
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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.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.