Weird and Religious
The medieval Catholic practice of selling indulgences promised to reduce time in purgatory in exchange for money or acts. This commercial approach to the afterlife later helped spark the Protestant Reformation.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2022, Ondo State in Nigeria. Islamist Muslim gunmen attacked a Christian church during mass, killing worshippers. Attackers invoked extremist Islamist narratives, justifying violence as jihad and punishment of Christians within a broader religious insurgency.
Fact
In Zoroastrianism, human beings are seen as having free will, and Zoroastrianism teaches that individuals must choose between truth and deceit.
Free speech and religion
Free speech forms the foundation of any society that hopes to progress rather than merely persist, because it allows ideas to be examined, challenged, discarded, or improved, and it is through this process that long-held assumptions are replaced with better ones. No social advance has ever occurred without offending those who benefited from the old order, for progress is inseparable from discomfort, and comfort thrives only where belief remains unchallenged. Religious systems have historically claimed access to absolute truth, and absolute truth does not tolerate rivals. When a belief presents itself as final, dissent becomes dangerous by definition, and questioning is reframed as attack, criticism as hatred, and disagreement as moral failure. For centuries, religious authority was bound to political power, and challenging doctrine was treated as treason against the state. That legacy has not vanished. It has simply adopted softer language while preserving the same instinct to silence.
Quote of the day
“Faith is the great cop out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” Richard Dawkins.
Ask the right question
Why do moral insights often arise from secular philosophy and science rather than from new revelations?
Religious Crooks
Bob Larson is an American evangelist known for paid exorcism and deliverance services, with critics arguing that charging for dramatic spiritual warfare rituals turns religious fear into a commercial enterprise.
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Religion is supposed to bring morality but it also seem to bring a lot of crooks who take advantage of people.