Weird and Religious
Some Inuit groups traditionally practised name sharing, where a newborn was given the name of a recently deceased person. The child was treated as carrying something of that person’s identity, blurring the line between individual lives.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2019, Sri Lanka Easter bombings. Islamist Muslim suicide attackers targeted Christian churches and hotels, killing hundreds. The group pledged allegiance to Islamic State and justified the attacks as revenge and jihad against Christians and foreigners.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, good thoughts, good words, and good deeds form a basic ethical formula, and Zoroastrianism links moral choice directly to spiritual outcome.
Classic question
There are classic questions that believers love to ask, one of them is, how can something come from nothing. It shows nothing but confusion because it relies on an intuitive but incorrect understanding of nothing. In physics, nothing is not an empty box waiting to be filled. It is a complex concept involving fields, energy, and instability. More importantly, religion never solves this problem. It simply relocates it. If something cannot come from nothing, then god cannot come from nothing either. Declaring god eternal does not solve the puzzle. It exempts the preferred answer from the rule imposed on everything else, which is not explanation but special pleading.
Quote of the day
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” Arthur Schopenhauer.
Ask the right question
If religion brings peace, why has it so often been linked to conflict when mixed with power?
Religious Crooks
Sogyal Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and founder of Rigpa, with multiple former students accusing him of sexual and physical abuse, leading to his resignation after an internal letter and subsequent scrutiny exposed long standing allegations.
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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.