Weird and Religious
Among the Shona of Zimbabwe, ancestral spirits called mhondoro are believed to protect the land and the people. Mediums can enter trance states in which these spirits speak through them, giving guidance on community matters and moral conduct.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2018, Burkina Faso. Islamist militants attacked churches and Christian villages. Groups justified violence as jihad, targeting Christians and local Muslims who cooperated with the state, aiming to impose their version of Islamic rule.
Fact
In Christianity, faith is considered essential, and Christianity teaches trust in God and in Jesus Christ as the basis for a restored relationship with God.
Systematic Dismantling
What we need is not a gradual nudge away from belief, but a systematic dismantling of the ideas, instincts, and structures that allowed gods to exist at all. The illusion should be taken apart piece by piece, not to replace it with cynicism, but with clarity and honesty. When the scaffolding is removed, what remains is not emptiness but responsibility and adulthood. It is the realisation that the universe does not owe us meaning, and that this was never a problem until we invented gods to pretend otherwise.
Quote of the day
“Religion is a by product of fear and ignorance.” Paul Kurtz.
Ask the right question
Why would a god reveal different and conflicting rules to different groups of people?
Religious Crooks
Inri Cristo, a Brazilian religious claimant who presents himself as a reincarnated Christ, leads a small movement funded by followers, with critics describing it as personality driven and financially sustained through devotion to his divine claims.
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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.
Today we took a look at yet another religious crook but there are hundreds of thousands of them. You could spend a lifetime researching the topic.