Weird and Religious
The ancient Maya performed bloodletting rituals on themselves, including piercing tongues or genitals, because blood was thought to feed the gods and open portals to the spirit world. Pain was treated as a communication tool with the divine.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1860, Mount Lebanon and Damascus. Druze and Maronite Christian communities clashed, with massacres of civilians. Combatants justified violence as defence of their religious communities, protection of honour, and retaliation, turning local power struggles into explicitly sectarian bloodshed.
Fact
In Taoism, longevity and harmony of body and spirit are valued, and Taoism connects spiritual practice with physical well being.
Noah and the Great Flood
Geology provides no evidence of a global flood, zoology provides no evidence of mass redistribution from a single point, and genetics provides no evidence of recent universal population collapse. The story of Noah's Ark fails at every level, yet for centuries it was taught as historical truth and disbelief was treated as moral failure, because the goal was never explanation but submission. Accepting the impossible demonstrated loyalty while questioning it marked danger.
Quote of the day
“The world holds two classes of men, intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.” Abu al Ala al Ma arri.
Ask the right question
If a god has a fixed plan, in what real sense can prayer change anything without contradicting that plan?
Religious Crooks
Sogyal Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and founder of Rigpa, with multiple former students accusing him of sexual and physical abuse, leading to his resignation after an internal letter and subsequent scrutiny exposed long standing allegations.
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That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.