Weird and Religious
Some Islamic traditions say that when a person dies and is buried, two angels named Munkar and Nakir come into the grave to question the dead person. The grave becomes a kind of interview room where answers determine comfort or distress until the final judgement.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2018, Sri Lanka tensions. Sinhalese Buddhist extremist monks and mobs incited violence against Muslim communities, including riots and property destruction. Agitators justified actions as protecting Buddhism and the nation from perceived Islamic religious and cultural threat.
Fact
In Shinto, the spiritual and everyday worlds are closely connected, and Shinto does not strongly separate religious life from daily activities.
Beyond religion
The absence of divine reason should sharpen human focus rather than dull it. If existence carries no predetermined goal or purpose, then how life is lived matters more, not less. The indifference of the universe transfers the duty of care entirely onto human shoulders. Petty divisions born of ancient myths become intolerable when seen against the scale of what remains unknown and the fragility of our species within it. Hope remains without illusion. Discovery continues, understanding deepens, and the future may yet reveal insights or intelligences that transform the very questions we ask. Just as the present would astonish those who lived centuries ago, the future will almost certainly astonish us, revealing possibilities we cannot yet imagine. Deeper answers may one day arise not from revelation but from cooperation, evidence, and patience.
Quote of the day
“The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool.” Voltaire.
Ask the right question
If a god values life, why design a natural world where extinction is common and most species that ever lived are gone?
Religious Crooks
Valentina de Andrade led a Brazilian UFO religion called Lineamentum, mixing esoteric belief with hierarchical control, later convicted in a case involving deaths of children, with the group described as secretive and manipulative.
For more information, google the name.
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.
If a real God existed, would he allow crooks to act on his behalf?