Weird and Religious
The Zoroastrian religion traditionally avoided burying or burning bodies because both earth and fire were sacred. Corpses were placed in stone towers where birds consumed them, to avoid polluting the natural elements.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2019, Christchurch in New Zealand. A white supremacist gunman killed worshippers at two mosques. He used civilisational and anti-Muslim rhetoric with pseudo religious language, presenting violence as defence of a Christian West, drawing on distorted holy war ideas rather than mainstream doctrine.
Fact
In Buddhism, the Middle Way describes how Buddhism avoids both extreme self indulgence and extreme self denial, teaching a balanced approach to living and practice.
Optional reality
The definition of truth that matters for human progress is simple and demanding. Truth is the quality of a claim that has been demonstrated to be accurate through empirical verification or through sound logical deduction, using the best available knowledge at the time. Anything that does not meet this standard belongs in the category of we do not know, not in belief, doctrine, or law.
Religion fails this standard repeatedly. Its central claims cannot be tested, cannot be verified, and cannot be deduced from known facts. They survive only by lowering the bar for truth until feeling replaces evidence. When belief is treated as knowledge, reality becomes optional.
Quote of the day
“The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool.” Voltaire.
Ask the right question
How can free will exist if a god already knows every future choice with certainty?
Religious Crooks
David Koresh led the Branch Davidians in the United States, claiming unique prophetic status while controlling members’ lives, relationships, and resources, with critics and former members describing a system where religious authority justified personal power and material control.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.