Weird and Religious
Certain Islamic traditions describe that on the Day of Judgement, death itself will be brought in the form of a ram and slaughtered in front of everyone. After that, death will no longer exist, and people will remain forever in either paradise or hell. Death is treated almost like a living being that can be killed.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2005 to 2014, northern Nigeria. Boko Haram carried out bombings, massacres, and mass kidnappings, including schoolgirls. The group justified violence as rejecting Western education, enforcing strict Islam, and punishing Muslims and Christians seen as collaborators, promising divine approval for warfare.
Fact
In Christianity, moral teaching includes guidance on honesty, sexual behaviour, justice, and care for the poor, and Christianity links these to living according to God’s will.
An imagined solution
God is not an answer revealed from beyond the world but the imagined solution to mortality, uncertainty, and powerlessness. It is the story humans told themselves when reality was too harsh and too silent. That story worked well enough to survive for thousands of years, and its success says nothing about its truth. It says everything about the human mind that created it.
Quote of the day
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” Mark Twain.
Ask the right question
If holy figures performed public miracles, why do we not see similarly clear events in the age of cameras and global media?
Religious Crooks
Efraín Ríos Montt is more political, so instead take Efrain Rios Montt style cases out and use José Mercau, a self proclaimed Catholic mystic in Argentina, who was convicted of sexual abuse after presenting himself as a spiritual healer with special powers.
For more information, google the name.
Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
History tells us that wherever fools gathered, there was always a religious crook to take advantage of them. The best way to stop the crooks is not to be a fool.