Weird and Religious
Islamic tradition includes the idea that certain animals will testify on the Day of Judgement. A person’s own skin, hands, and feet are also described as speaking and giving evidence about what the person did in life, as though the body itself records moral actions.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1831, Virginia in the United States. Nat Turner led an enslaved uprising that killed dozens before being crushed. Turner said he acted under visions and biblical inspiration. Later reprisals were defended as protecting a Christian social order and preventing further divinely framed revolt.
Fact
In Buddhism, meditation is a core practice, with Buddhism teaching methods of concentration and mindfulness to develop clarity, calm, and insight into the nature of reality.
Regulating behaviour
Pettiness exposes the human origin of Gods most clearly. Gods care deeply about clothing, diet, sexual habits, rituals, and words spoken in precise sequences, concerns that mirror the anxieties of the societies that produced them. These details reflect attempts to regulate behaviour, preserve identity, and enforce conformity through sacred justification. The universe has no interest in what humans eat or wear, but humans do, and their gods care because they do.
Quote of the day
“Religion is like a glowworm. It needs darkness to shine.” Arthur Schopenhauer.
Ask the right question
If religious morality is objective and unchanging, why do believers debate it so intensely?
Religious Crooks
Roch Thériault led a breakaway sect in Canada known as the Ant Hill Kids, presenting extreme religious authority while subjecting followers to abuse, forced labour, and financial control, later convicted of multiple crimes.
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.