Weird and Religious
Ancient Israelites used a ritual called the “ordeal of bitter water” for a woman suspected of adultery. She drank a special mixture prepared by a priest, and physical effects were taken as a sign of guilt or innocence, placing judgment in divine hands.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1862, Minnesota in the United States. During the Dakota War, violence included attacks on settlers and reprisals. While driven by land and survival, some Christian rhetoric portrayed events as divine judgement or a struggle between civilisation and heathenism, shaping justification on both sides.
Fact
In Jainism, non violence is the central ethical principle, and Jainism teaches avoiding harm to all living beings in thought, word, and action.
Evolution replaces God
Natural selection is brutally simple. Organisms vary. Some variations improve survival and reproduction. Those variations persist. Over immense time, small changes accumulate into extraordinary complexity. No foresight is required. No goal is set. No intelligence guides the process. The environment does the filtering. What works remains. What fails disappears. Complexity emerges not because it was planned but because it was retained. This process does exactly what religion claims only a creator can do. It produces intricate structures, functional systems, and apparent purpose. The difference is that evolution explains how this happens while design merely asserts that it does. One is a mechanism. The other is a label.
Quote of the day
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” Isaac Asimov.
Ask the right question
If the universe shows no clear sign of purpose in its vast empty regions, why assume human life is its central goal?
Religious Crooks
Kirtanananda Swami, a leader in the Hare Krishna movement in the United States, oversaw a large commune that generated income through businesses staffed by devotees, later convicted in connection with racketeering and other crimes linked to the community.
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That was just a tiny case in a vast ocean of religious crooks.