Stephen Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE, How the World Became Modern, tells an important story and has won the National Book Award for non-fiction and a Pulitzer. The story is of particular interest and importance to atheists and secular humanists because it validates us as main-stream, primary players in the flow of Western Civilization and casts the Abrahamic religions as the major bump on the long road to modernity. Read on…
Throughout history science has come up with new theories and supported it with conclusive evidences. When people believed that the earth was flat and the earth was the centre of the universe, science disagreed, with evidence, but the general public were too scared to support those ideas, as the power of religion was greater then. Read on…
A lot of theists talk about Pascal’s wager, “if you (atheists) are wrong you will suffer for all eternity, but if we (theists) are wrong we would have lost nothing.”
This is an example how illogical your thinking is. You are so obsessed with god that you can’t even think straight when it comes to religious matters. Read on…
Believers in God can be classified into four major groups. There are those who believe that God must be infinitely powerful and infinitely benevolent. There are those who believe that although God is, no doubt, infinitely benevolent, He or She is not infinitely powerful, a fact they regret. Then there are others who believe that God has not been infinitely benevolent in some occasions but has always remained all-powerful. These believers are somewhat resentful of God. And finally, there are others who believe that God is a bit mean and not that powerful. Some among them believe that God must be very much like the average man or woman in these respects. Read on…
Religions are nothing but pillars of dogmas,
Built on the soil of faiths, cemented with beliefs,
Given the mosaics of religious traditions,
Built to last till the end of the world. Read on…
Like any parent God created us To do the things he can’t himself. Can God wonder? Can God be surprised? Can God be given anything? In his image, yes. But looks can be deceiving. Can God wish? Can God fear? Can God dream? Can God forget? No wonder he is a jealous god. No wonder he flings down his commandments. No wonder he arranges all these coincidences, then snaps “I told you so”. No wonder he formulates the theory That … Read on…
GOD is an ideal concoct,
The Force, the Power, the Almighty,
The Big Brother, the king of the kings,
The white bearded guy living in the sky. Read on…
I learned to question God
from a story of Yom Kippur my mother once told
on broadloom steps that muflled sound,
her voice foggy with memory. Read on…
Dim theories of an afterlife,
Reincarnation, grip our mind. Read on…
A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third World. The First World is entering the long-predicted Secular Age, when science and knowledge dominate. The change promises to be another shift of civilization, like past departures of the era of kings, the time of slavery, the Agricultural Age, the epoch of colonialism, and the like. Such cultural transformations are partly invisible to contemporary people, but become obvious in retrospect. Read on…