I enjoyed this tale from Issue 5 of Whist Maen about Frithelstock Priory, where, in the fourteenth century, the priors changed tack and started worshipping Diana with a dedicated chapel and attendant idols...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tarvuism, including: Tarvu is our Lord God There are two universes The Tarvunty is the Holy Book We should all "be nice" Men and women are equal (to each other) Tarvu's Prayer should be said every day Octopuses are holy creatures Everyone has an...

Meet ‘Luce’: The Vatican’s cartoon mascot for Jubilee 2025 The official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year is named “Luce,” which is Italian for “light.” | Credit: Simone Legno/tokidoki/Vatican Media By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 28, 2024 / 12:55 pm Ahead of the 2025...

hmm came across this channel recently. https://www.youtube.com/@NavajoTraditionalTeachings It's interesting because apparently, they made it to document what the Navaho traditions say about various things. It's interesting since this differs quite substantially from the pop-culture and...

A Vatican academy is set to investigate 'mystical phenomena' around the world including 'weeping' statues of the Virgin Mary, stigmata and ghost sightings under plans for a new dedicated observatory. The Pontifical Mariana International Academy (PAMI), which describes itself as a scientific...

Prepared to be... underwhelmed. Shepherd Bushiri is a Malawian-born charismatic preacher and businessman who rose to fame in the early 2010s for his “prophetic” and “healing ministry.” He is the founder and leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church, which has branches across...

There is a Catholic Moon Bishop. Lunar fiddling is sorted. https://www.iflscience.com/the-catholic-church-officially-has-a-moon-bishop-67113?fbclid=IwAR0ds5nmIBc-04LlpEaHFqKw-mOkVODld4r2Yz0Wif4PPHmq-q32A3ENG8A

I was thinking about the role faith plays in our acceptance or otherwise of various phenomena. I have known two people with a strong Christian faith, a work colleague and the father of a friend. Both were very open about their faith but it was personal to them. They would happily talk about...

This is one of the strangest paths to personal revelation I've ever heard ... FULL STORY: https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/christianity-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-baptism.html

In many cultures, mountains stood as liminal places, as borders between heaven and earth. For most of mankind's history, they remained on the margins of civilisation, most people preferring to settle in the valleys below, cautiously avoiding the barren summits. Astonishingly, many famous peaks...

This doesn't seem right to me at all. Even if they will get decent Bhagi's. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32449101

Apologies if we already have a thread on this, but I've never been able to work the search function properly. Anyway, in the past I've had quite a few Muslim and Jewish friends, and I've always made a point of asking them about the ban on pork and piggie products. The stock answer I have always...

Does anyone ever think that we all live in a society run by satanists from top down. children are subliminally programmed via media, alot of movies, pop music/videos etc all have hidden subliminal messages contained with them. for example the youngsters do the spiderman sign (the mano...

Can't find anywhere to put this, but mods please move it if you find a better berth.

Ive been reading a bit about Satan and I find him a very interesting character, firstly his name lucifer drives from 'Bringer of light' or 'Morning star' he was the only one of the angels who had the balls to stand up to this god character who seems to be a bit of a psycopath. I think he got a...

Oh for the love of…:rolleyes: From Auntie Beeb: This has made various front pages, notably the Daily Mail (with predictable ire), but the nurse herself comes over as entirely kind and sincere - she just offered, rather sweetly, to pray for a patient. When the patient said no thank you, she...

Italian man catches wife in bed with priest An Italian husband returned home early from work to find his wife in bed with their local priest. By Nick Pisa in Rome Last Updated: 5:33PM BST 14 Sep 2008 Following the shock discovery, the man stormed into the local bishop's office in...

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Wands and wine for imprisoned pagans

I thought this was interesting: http://www.bigeye.com/sexeducation/israelites.html

Animism is often equated with primitive or uneducated thought, but why is that? Is it really more absurd, or less intellegent, than other belief systems? From Winkpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism And here is a guy who has a page trying to put a spin on a modern American...

Is Atheism A Belief System... or Fact? It just struck me - many people who are atheists seem to regard it as a fact, irrefutable. But isn't it a belief system, exactly the same as monotheism, polytheism, or agnosticism? Or is it scientific "fact"? I'm not sure how it's calssified, but it might...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews more likely to jaywalk 10:00 23 January 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Hazel Muir http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6896 It is rarely said that religious types live dangerously, but it seems they do when it comes to crossing roads. A new...

Greets http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1377286,00.html mal

Need to register or watch an ad for a day pass: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/ Requires free registration: Source Emps

Future not looking so bright for Iran's "fire worshippers" YAZD, Iran (AFP) - In the burning desert north of this ancient Iranian city, the the Islamic republic's last followers of the Zoroastrian religion are making their annual pilgrimage to the temple of Chak-Chak. "We are a species on the...

Just a genral thread for when the religious types get their panties in a bunch over something like this example of alleged abuse of the Wigwam: link

news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2585642 Link is dead. No archived version found.

Jesus the Buddhist I saw a documentary on BBC 4 recently called "Did Jesus Die?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/did-jesus-die.shtml the most startling thing about it to me, was the idea that: 1) the three wise men were buddhists guided to the reincarnation of a lama 2)...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=13&u=/nm/20031204/od_nm/odd_italy_blood_dc] Edit: Link fixed. P_M

I suppose the central debate here, like so many ethical issues, revolves around whether or not morality is absolute or relative. This is obviously part of Taiwanese tradition, but to our eyes (mine certainly) revolting. Is this because it's 'wrong', or am I just expressing a personal and...

Meditation Shown to Light Up Brains of Buddhists LONDON (Reuters) - Buddhists really are happy, calm and serene people -- at least according to their brain scans. Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in...

At the moment I am doing a course on Druids from The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. I was wondering whether anyone could recommend any decent books or websites other then their own where I can find some further information. Any help will be greatfully appreciated. Thanks Oggie

Of course, I'm not really suggesting that he is. But I wonder whether those who believe in the Virgin Birth are committed to something like this position. After all, what genetic makeup would the Virgin Birth Jesus have? 50% Mary's genes and 50% whose? God's(!)?? 100% Mary's? Maybe Oll Lewis...

This is just something Ive....developed over the years. Religion originally was started because of a deep emotion that all human beings have. Pride. People wanted to think they knew why something was the way it was or why it happend. The sun rose in the morning, it set in the night. People didnt...

I was chatting to a Mormon this morning (not dificult i know) anyway i managed to find out that he knew nothing of the "problems" in Salt Lake city despite being for there what with the odd car bomb and recent Mormon masacre int the 1800's discoveries... i wasnt trying to upset him just wanting...

"Miracles" at Saint-Medard France, 1727-1732 I read about this in "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved" a while back but haven't really found much else about it on the internet. Found this at http://www.nhne.com/windwings/wind4.html...

I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING FOR EVERYONE TO FIND OUT THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION AMONGST YOU FORTEAN CHAPS. I, OF COURSE, KNOW THE RESULTS ALREADY. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ANSWER "NO" WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE CHAT LATER. ;)

Falun Gong hack Chinese TV Satellite Transponder Slashdot has an item today re Falun Gong hacking a chinese TV satellite - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/03/1253243&mode=thread&tid=172 The thread which follows references this site as a source of further info re the cult. Hope the...

Springs,wells, rivers, lakes etc. all have significance in early religions.We all come from the primordial ocean, we're told.. so no water - no life. Around my area there are many springs bearing a saint's name since the christianisation of pagan worship and local and visiting pagans leave...

The Nephilim/Evil Giants History Start here: http://members.aol.com/rckrol308/ Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20020406092054/http://members.aol.com:80/rckrol308/ What about the Fallen/Watchers themselves? Does this count as...

I remember the idea of a "Church of Fort" being suggested in one of my FT compilations and it being severely reacted to in a letter in the following issue. I've had a look... This is from an article on pages 52 and 53 of FT48 (Spring 1987) entitled 'The Politics of Prodigies' by John...

Can you describe it? I think It can be either of these: 1. A place where you live out the worst things of your life, over & over again. 2. A place where you rot in fire and coal, for eternity. Where your enslaved. 3. A place that doesn't exist.

Is a defining characteristic of Forteans that they are against faith? -Justin PS http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=faith I am referring to "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence" rather than "The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith."...