Weird and Religious
The Aztecs believed certain eclipses were signs that cosmic balance was failing. Pregnant women wore obsidian blades or amulets to protect themselves from supposed harmful forces released during the event.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1993, Mumbai in India. Muslim perpetrators from criminal networks influenced by Islamist narratives carried out coordinated bombings killing hundreds. The attacks were justified by organisers as revenge for anti Muslim riots and as defence of Muslim honour, blending crime, politics, and religious grievance.
Fact
In Taoism, knowledge gained through direct experience is emphasised, and Taoism often questions rigid intellectual systems.
Personal experience and truth
The idea of subjective truth is often defended as a recognition of personal experience, but it becomes dangerous the moment it leaves the private realm and enters public decision-making. A person may prefer chocolate over vanilla, and no harm follows from that preference. Problems arise when subjective belief is treated as equivalent to objective fact in matters that affect others. Claims about health, history, morality, or reality itself cannot be resolved by personal feeling without consequences. Religion collapses this boundary deliberately. It takes unverifiable claims and demands public obedience to them.
Quote of the day
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.” Thomas Paine.
Ask the right question
If moral conscience is from god, why do people feel moral conflict about commands attributed to god in scripture?
Religious Crooks
Sun Myung Moon’s case centres more on finances, so for sexual misconduct specifically take Mitsuo Matayoshi out and include T. B. Joshua’s associate Timothy Omotoso, a Nigerian pastor in South Africa, charged with multiple sexual offences, with prosecutors alleging that religious authority was used to recruit and control victims.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
If a real God existed, would he allow crooks to act on his behalf?