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10 Strange Practices Different Religions Somehow Invented on Their Own
Faith has done a lot. It has led to war. It has built whole realms. It has changed the way we live. But it has a stranger side too.
Look past the well-known bits, past the fast days and the prayers most folks know, and you find odd stuff. Faiths from far-off lands that could not meet kept coming up with the same strange acts. They chose the same sort of peak to call holy. They lit fires meant to burn on, with no end. They left the dead out for birds, not in the ground. No one planned this. No priests from Rome, Tibet, and Egypt met to work it out. Yet the same odd ways come up time and again, on far shores, in faiths with no shared root at all.
These ten are some of the strangest.
10. A Holy Peak, Every Time
Ask why a mountain matters to a faith, and you get ten different answers. Ask how many faiths picked a mountain at all, and the count is huge. The ancient Greeksplaced their gods on Mount Olympus. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all point to Mount Sinai as the spot where God…
