Weird and Religious
In some Hindu traditions, certain holy men known as Aghori deliberately use things considered impure, including meditating in cremation grounds and using human skulls as bowls. They believe breaking social taboos helps them detach from illusion and fear.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1095 onward, Iberian Peninsula. Christian kingdoms waged the Reconquista against Muslim ruled territories. Warfare, expulsions, and forced conversions were justified as reclaiming Christian land, restoring churches, and fulfilling divine mandate to remove Islamic rule from historically Christian regions.
Fact
In Buddhism, insight meditation aims to see reality clearly, and Buddhism uses close observation of experience to understand impermanence, dissatisfaction, and non self.
Sacred myths
If a god wrote the scriptures, the result is inexplicable. The creator of reality chose to communicate through error, contradiction, cruelty, and ambiguity, then punished humans for misunderstanding the message. This explanation demands far more faith than the alternative. That these texts were written by people trying to understand their world, justify their power, and impose order using the myths available to them.
Quote of the day
“Fear is the mother of all gods.” Lucretius.
Ask the right question
How did language diversity arise so suddenly in stories like the Tower of Babel without leaving any linguistic or archaeological trace?
Religious Crooks
Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram Yoga, built a global yoga movement with spiritual overtones and faced numerous lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and assault, with court judgments and settlements severely damaging his standing.
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.
That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.