Weird and Religious
In parts of Indonesia, the Toraja people keep the bodies of deceased relatives in the home for months or years. The dead person is spoken to, given food, and treated as sick rather than gone until a major funeral ceremony can be afforded.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1568 to 1648, parts of the Netherlands and German lands. Conflicts within the Eighty Years War and Thirty Years War saw massacres and destruction tied to Catholic and Protestant divisions. Violence was justified as defending correct doctrine, protecting believers, and ruling territories according to God’s will.
Fact
In Taoism, inner stillness is encouraged, and Taoism uses quiet reflection and meditation to align the mind with the deeper flow of reality.
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
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” Mark Twain.
Ask the right question
Why do so many religious rituals look like cultural habits rather than universal truths?
Religious Crooks
Eddie Long was a megachurch pastor accused in civil suits of coercing young men into sexual relationships while using his spiritual authority, with the cases settled out of court and ongoing debate about financial and power dynamics in his ministry.
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?