Weird and Religious
In parts of West Africa, the Yoruba tradition includes a god of iron, war, and technology called Ogun, who is believed to govern not only weapons but also modern tools such as cars and machinery. Road accidents are sometimes linked to displeasing Ogun, blending ancient belief with modern life.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
2015, Garissa in Kenya. Al Shabaab gunmen attacked a university, killing many students. The attackers separated Muslims from Christians and justified the massacre as jihad, presenting Christians as enemies of Islam and targets in a religious war.
Fact
In Judaism, life cycle events such as birth, coming of age, marriage, and death are marked by religious rituals, and Judaism connects these moments to covenant identity.
Islam and polygamy
Polygamy exposes the imbalance between men and women. In Islam, men may accumulate wives under the pretence of responsibility or charity, while women are granted no equivalent freedom. The emotional and physical realities of such arrangements are ignored in favour of male entitlement sanctioned by scripture. The persistence of this practice, defended even today as divine allowance, speaks clearly about whose interests the religion was created to serve. Defenders often argue that Islam improved women’s status relative to its historical context, yet this defence concedes the central point. A god who merely echoes the morality of his time is not revealing eternal truth but recording local norms. If divine morality must be judged by comparison to seventh-century Arabia, then it is not divine, it is historical.
Quote of the day
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” Benjamin Disraeli.
Ask the right question
Why would a loving deity create a world where survival often depends on killing other living beings?
Religious Crooks
Asaram Bapu is an Indian Hindu guru who built a large following and network of ashrams, later convicted of rape, with long standing accusations that his religious status was used to exploit devotees.
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.