Questions tagged [religion]
Use this tag for questions about religious practices. Do not ask questions about religious beliefs, though. Those are off-topic and there is no tag to use.
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Did the mother of an Oprah guest from 1989 participate in child sacrifices?
There is this very haunting clip from an Oprah Winfrey interview from 1989 where this woman (the guest) claimed that she participated in child sacrifices when she was young and that she was brutally ...
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Did Harvard scientists fail to duplicate a pattern in the Bible?
At the end of the 19th century, Ivan Panin claimed to have discovered numerical patterns in the Bible, particularly involving the number seven. For instance, he noted that the first verse, Genesis 1:1,...
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Did Mehmet Ali Agca publish a new book about Pope John Paul II assassination attempt?
Here's a YouTube video from a famous Arab Geopolitics doctor who says that Mehmet Ali Agca published a new book about Pope John Paul II's assassination attempt. The book was published in Italy a few ...
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Are all citizens of Saudi Arabia "considered Muslims by the state"?
According to a May 5, 2024 article in Zawia3, a somewhat polemic Egyptian political news source, 2024 source:
accurately determining the religious population composition in Saudi Arabia is ...
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Can science explain the anomalous properties of water?
According to proponents of the so-called Intelligent Design (for example, here, here, and here), the unique properties of water that allow for the existence of life cannot be explained by science and ...
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Is this the Oath to become a Master Mason?
In Freemasonry, the third degree that one may obtain is called Master Mason. I found a book claiming to contain the rituals and oath that the Mason has to perform. The book is called "Duncan's ...
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Did the body of Saint Bernadette remain intact after 50 years, despite the conditions it was in?
According to this 2019 article in the National Catholic Register, The Marvelous Preservation of St. Bernadette, the body of Saint Bernadette had limited decay, despite:
given the close examinations, ...
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Do people have visions of religious figures from other religions (outside of Jesus)?
New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and Justin Bass had a debate about the historicity of Jesus. At the 1:09:02 mark Justin Bass makes a claim:
Justin Bass: People, of their own religions, do have ...
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Is the Greek Orthodox church worth 700 billion Euros?
This Wikipedia list puts the Greek Orthodox church's net worth at 700B Euros in 2011 (about 974B USD), above any branch of the Catholic church or other religion. Its source is France 24, but I am not ...
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Was the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake widely ascribed to Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod?
Andrew Dickinson White’s book “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom” contains the following anecdote
In America the earthquake of 1755 was widely ascribed, especially in ...
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Is this picture and voice recording of Daniel Radcliffe speaking Hebrew authentic?
This 2010 YouTube video purports to show a picture of actor Daniel Radcliffe wearing tefillin and speaking on Israeli radio about it in Hebrew.
This picture has been picked up on a number of not-so-...
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Did China destroy a Guanyin statue in Hebei province?
From Mongolia live:
It was not the Taliban who exploded the stone carvings, but the Chinese Communist Party
A 57.9-meter-tall cliff stone-carved vertical Guanyin statue in Pingshan County, ...
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Are people receiving spontaneous gold dental prostheses without dentist intervention?
Claims of unexpected and spontaneous fillings or full restorations of teeth with gold are not unheard of in many faith healing services and other religious gatherings. For example, in a video recorded ...
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Muslim couple provocatively pictured on beach — true holiday photo or fake (i.e. staged/set up)? [closed]
Recently I found a very provocative picture circulating in anti-Islam communities. It shows a presumably Muslim man, who is wearing a very small bathing suit and is standing next to a fully clothed ...
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Was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a defender of eugenics? [closed]
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French philosopher and Jesuit Catholic priest who was mentioned in the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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Could the Ark of the Covenant have killed by acting as a capacitor?
In the biblical account of Uzzah, he touches the Ark of the Covenant on the road from Gibeah to Jerusalem; this irks the god of Israel, who knocks him out on the spot.
A 2014 Gizmodo article quotes ...
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Did Ohio pass a law granting students the right to give scientifically wrong answers consistent with their religious beliefs?
The Patheos blog and WKRC local12 report:
The Ohio House on Wednesday passed the "Student Religious Liberties Act." Under the law, students can't be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong ...
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Is the pope's headgear adopted directly from a Mesopotamian hat, symbol of worshipping Dagon, as seen in his fish mouth looking mitre?
The Roman bishop of the Catholic church is often wearing a mitre. Countless sites, 'that really know the hidden truth and tell it', make the connection of 'fish mouth' and 'Dagon priest', claiming ...
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Is this picture from the flooded cave rescue in Thailand?
I came across the following post on Facebook (original text is on Portuguese, translation and emphasis by me):
BOYS MEDITATING WHILE WAIT FOR RESCUE INSIDE CAVE IN THAILAND
The former Buddhist monk ...
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Is "Islamic fasting" healthy?
I live in a mostly Muslim country (Morocco). Now we are in the month of Ramadan.
First, I had to define Ramadan:
Is 30 days (or 29) where practicing Muslims can neither eat or drink or having sex, ...
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Was Theodor Herzl a self-confessed atheist? [closed]
I'm watching a Youtube video that explains the Israel-Palestine situation, and at this point the journalist/narrator says that Theodor Herzl, known as the father of Zionism or at least a chief ...
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Are 4 out of 5 people persecuted for their religion, Christians?
A CitizenGo petition for aiding persecuted Christians claims that
Christians are the most persecuted people in the world, with 4 out of
5 persecuted people identifying as Christians
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Marriage never mentioned at UN world conference on family?
The Mormon church claims,
They had a world conference on the family sponsored by the United
Nations in Beijing, China. We sent representatives. It was not
pleasant what they heard. They called ...
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Did all of Germany's Muslim MPs vote in favor of same-sex marriage?
I saw the following claim on The Independent's web-site:
All six of Germany's Muslim members of parliament voted in favour of same-sex marriage as Angela Merkel faced criticism for opposing the bill ...
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Do certain religious traditions believe that Eve had sex with the Serpent?
On p.169 of my edition of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, she includes a footnote remarking
The moon is a source of fertility; it is seen as the "master of women"; it is often believed that the moon, ...
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