Weird and Religious
In ancient China, oracle bones were used to ask questions of ancestors or gods. Priests carved questions onto animal bones or turtle shells, then heated them until cracks formed. The pattern of cracks was read as an answer from the spirit world, making burnt bone a decision making device.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1692, Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. Government soldiers killed members of Clan MacDonald after a delayed loyalty oath amid sectarian tension. Though political, it was partly justified as enforcing a Protestant settlement and suppressing rebellion associated with Catholic and Jacobite loyalties.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, the soul is judged after death, and Zoroastrianism describes a crossing where a person’s deeds determine their fate.
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. These redefinitions share one feature. They remove all testable claims. A god who is undefined cannot be disproven but cannot be demonstrated either. This emptiness is presented as depth when it is merely ambiguity. A belief that cannot be questioned because it means nothing is not profound. It is hollow.
Quote of the day
“I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.” Christopher Marlowe.
Ask the right question
If a god has a fixed plan, in what real sense can prayer change anything without contradicting that plan?
Religious Crooks
Aleister Crowley was an occult religious figure who founded Thelema, presenting himself as a prophet while attracting wealthy patrons, with critics in his time accusing him of manipulating followers for money and status under a spiritual banner.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
History tells us that wherever fools gathered, there was always a religious crook to take advantage of them. The best way to stop the crooks is not to be a fool.