Weird and Religious
In ancient Egypt, priests of certain temples shaved every hair on their bodies, including eyebrows and eyelashes, every three days to avoid lice, which they saw as ritually unclean. Cleanliness was not just hygiene but a spiritual requirement.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2016, Dhaka in Bangladesh. Islamist Muslim militants attacked a cafe, killing hostages including foreigners. Attackers declared allegiance to Islamic State and justified the act as jihad, targeting those labelled non believers and enemies of Islam.
Fact
In Shinto, life cycle events such as birth and marriage are often marked at shrines, and Shinto links these stages with blessing and protection.
Religion and virginity
Virginity is a religious fixation. Female worth is tied to sexual purity in ways that have no equivalent for men. A woman’s past becomes moral currency, while a man’s past is largely irrelevant. Honour becomes something men possess and women can destroy, producing violence, abandonment, and exclusion with grim regularity. These consequences are not distortions of religious intent but logical outcomes of doctrines that treat women as vessels of honour rather than autonomous human beings.
Quote of the day
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” Thomas Paine.
Ask the right question
What reliable evidence shows that rebirth occurs, beyond personal stories that can also be explained by memory errors or suggestion?
Religious Crooks
ESwami Premananda is a Hindu guru in India who ran an ashram and was convicted of rape and murder, with courts finding that spiritual status was used to control and abuse followers.
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Every country in the world has its fair share of spiritual crooks.
Throughout history and still to this day, there has never been a shortage of religious leaders who were not always following their own spiritual advice.