Religion
‘Fan Tai Sui’: The Chinese superstitious belief that your birth date has offended the gods
In Chinese tradition, your birthdate can occasionally be seen as unlucky - which is why people spend money to appease the gods they fear their birth has offended
Closed coffins and open coffers: the costs of Singaporean Chinese funeral practices
Chinese funerals are extremely expensive, with prescriptive periods of extended mourning - but their value is for the living, not the dead
Joss paper offerings: how to make Chinese hell a fun place for your ancestors
Chinese mourners traditionally burn paper offerings for dead relatives - but recently, the practice has expanded to involve paper versions of iPhones and luxury goods
Regality in the modern world: can a skeptic be a monarchist?
As the world watched on at the coronation of Charles Windsor, it's reasonable to ask: is there still a role for monarchy in the modern world?
Russell Crowe’s new film ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ tries to depict priests as superheroes
Funded by a Catholic religious order, 'The Pope's Exorcist', starring Russell Crowe, feels like a mix of Harry Potter and Dracula
From Patmos to Waco: the impact of apocalyptic religious beliefs
On the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Waco siege, it's worth considering how similar Koresh was to other apocalyptic religious prophets
Hugo Talks – a lot: the prominent conspiracy theorist channel that recently found religion
Popular conspiracy channel Hugo Talks has taken a hard pivot into Christianity, but the supposed 'one-world religion' isn't about to be imposed by the UN any time soon
The Tao of Magical Thinking: pseudoscience in Jeremy Lent’s ‘The Web of Meaning’
In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and in doing so repeatedly presents speculative and even disproven theories as facts
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