Weird and Religious
Among certain Celtic groups in Iron Age Europe, classical writers claimed that prisoners of war were sacrificed in large wicker structures sometimes described as “wicker men.” The victims were burned as offerings to the gods, though modern historians debate how literal these reports were.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1478 onward, Spain. The Spanish Inquisition targeted Jews and Muslims who had converted to Christianity but were suspected of false belief. Arrests, torture, and executions were justified as defending Catholic orthodoxy, purifying society, and saving souls from heresy and divine punishment.
Fact
In Islam, the Qur an is the sacred scripture, and Islam teaches that it is the direct word of God as "revealed" to Muhammad.
Proof of fragility
A religious apologist is an individual who engages in the systematic defense, justification, and explanation of religious doctrines, faith, and beliefs. Apologetics is not proof of religion’s strength but of its fragility. Every defence admits that something went wrong, and every explanation patches a crack, so the structure remains upright not because it is strong but because so much effort is spent holding it together. Those who defend nonsense are rarely malicious. They are sincere, believing they are protecting something precious, yet what they protect is the illusion that belief ever stood without them, and once that illusion falls, the need for defence disappears because the belief no longer needs saving and the arguments no longer need inventing, leaving only the recognition that a god who cannot speak clearly without human correction is not divine, and a message that collapses without defenders was never self-evident, for the defence itself is inseparable from the failure and stands as its most decisive proof.
Quote of the day
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal.
Ask the right question
If sacred sites are special to god, why do they correspond so closely to places important in local history and politics?
Religious Crooks
Jim Jones led the Peoples Temple, presenting a mix of Christian and socialist religious themes while building a tightly controlled movement that channelled members’ money and property into the organisation, ending in the Jonestown mass deaths after years of reported financial, psychological, and physical abuse within the group.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
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.