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.
21
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
21
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Is "Behind The Veil" an accurate representation of secret Mormon rituals?
In the hidden-camera clip Behind The Veil: Never-Before-Seen Footage of Secret Mormon Temple Rituals we supposedly see never-before-seen footage of secret Mormon Temple rituals.
A longer version of ...
- 3,085
13
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Are half of the donations to Democratic Party from Jewish sources?
I've encountered this claim in a number of sources, both respectable and not, but ultimately seems to stem from an article in Jerusalem Post attributing it to Gil Troy:
The reason for such intense ...
- 492
13
votes
0
answers
571
views
Did thousands of people claim to witness a strange solar phenomena ("dancing sun") at Fatima?
Let me clarify, I'm not asking if a miracle happened, or for a scientific explanation for why the sun might appear to do what was claimed. I'm asking about the actual numbers... if there is any ...
- 469
12
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Did Saddam Hussein have a Quran written in blood?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/19/saddam-legacy-quran-iraqi-government
"The "Blood Qur'an" is a copy of the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, claimed ...
- 229
8
votes
0
answers
323
views
Do church congregations attract sex offenders?
On page 34 of their 2008 report Licensed to Hug: How Child Protection Policies Are Poisoning the Relationship Between the Generations and Damaging the Voluntary Sector, authors Frank Furedi & ...
- 337
8
votes
0
answers
4k
views
Was there a molecular test of Lanciano and Buenos Aires Eucharistic miracles?
Some roman catholic sources like this March 2012 US Roman Catholic Journal article This Is My Body–This Is My Blood
claim there was an investigation performed about the eucharistic miracles in ...
- 313
8
votes
0
answers
605
views
Have many Falun Gong practitioners forgone medical treatment and died of treatable causes as a result?
The Chinese government is notably opposed to Falun Gong. In 1999, they were quoted in the Sun Sentinel:
the government charged that Falun Gong was responsible for the deaths of 1,400 people -- many ...
6
votes
0
answers
345
views
African Pentecostal Witch Hunting Guide real?
I found this online: "The African Pentecostal Church's Guide of Inquisitions of Witches and Magicians in the African Continent - 1989 (Translated from the Swahili Manuscript of the late Bakari Sudi ...
- 4,703
5
votes
0
answers
477
views
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, ...
- 39.1k
5
votes
0
answers
4k
views
Was a "new world religion" memorandum signed in Strasbourg in June 2014?
There is a document which is shared on the internet these days. I saw it in Romanian language and then searching a bit, I found it in English as well: it refers to a "memorandum" signed in ...
- 1,775
5
votes
0
answers
295
views
Do more "animal sacrifices, desecrations of cemeteries" happen at Halloween?
The Daily Mail wrote that the Vatican claims that Halloween is evil and dangerous for young people and there are more animal sacrifices, desecrations of cemeteries and thefts of sacred bones happening....
- 1,628
4
votes
0
answers
2k
views
Was Sun's distance mentioned correctly in "Hanuman Chalisa", the 16 th century poem?
I found many sites stating that the Sun's distance was mentioned accurately in the "Hanuman Chalisa" hymn written in the 16th century.
Even Wikipedia has a mention of this.
juga sahasra jojana ...
- 909
3
votes
0
answers
3k
views
Did a Father save his son after digging for 38 hours after the Armenian earthquake?
There's an inspirational story that is very popular on God based websites. Here is the version I am familiar with that was forwarded to me on Whatsapp many times before Yom Kippur:
This story is true ...
- 4,132
3
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Did Yitzhak Kaduri leave a note implying the Jewish Messiah is named Yehoshua?
Yitzhak Kaduri was a renown rabbi who died in 2006.
As explained in the above Wikipedia page, there are claims that he left a note to be opened after his death. The note, when decoded as an acrostic, ...
- 593
3
votes
0
answers
512
views
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 ...
user41350
2
votes
0
answers
578
views
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, ...
- 153
2
votes
0
answers
313
views
Did Theodor Herzl adhere to Spinozism?
The following are found among a list of Theodor Herzl quotes on the Web site of the World Zionist Organisation:
When I say God I do not mean to offend the freethinkers. For my part
they can say ...
- 123
2
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Did Omar Khayyam say this about religion?
Atheistrepublic.com made the following meme which claims:
lf instead of studying religion, men would have
devoted to develop mathematics - algebra.
lf logic of science would have occupied ...
- 15.9k
1
vote
0
answers
309
views
Does the tradition of Sabbath originate from the Babylonian rest day Sapattu?
It is often claimed that the tradition of Sabbath has its origin in ancient Babylon.
The Babylonian restdays are named 'Sapattu' and there are several other similarities (including the linkage to the ...
- 253
1
vote
0
answers
416
views
Was swastika a popular symbol among Slavs and/or Proto-Indo-Europeans?
It seems to me that many Russian nationalists and neo-paganists currently believe that swastika was a Solar symbol or a symbol of fortune in ancient Slavic folklore.
There are multiple paintings by ...
- 868
-6
votes
2
answers
395
views
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 ...
