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ATHEISM AND BELIEF
Quote of the day by Ronald Reagan: ‘Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted…’ – Former US president’s unusual argument for GodRonald Reagan used a dinner analogy to discuss God's existence. He believed the world's complexity suggested a creator, much like a meal im...
Quote of the day by Friedrich Nietzsche: 'Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their...' - German philosopher's timeless wisdom on truth, self-deception, and personal growthQuote of the day by Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche profoundly influenced modern thinking and cultural criticis...
Quote of the day by Isaac Newton: 'As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.'Isaac Newton, renowned for his physics breakthroughs, also explored faith, believing science and religion illuminated the same reality. His...
Quote of the day by David Hume: 'A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to...' - How knowledge changes the way people understand reality explained by the Scottish philosopherDavid Hume's famous quote of the day explores the relationship between knowledge, doubt, and belief. Commonly associated with the Scottish ...
- Buddha and non-theism
Buddha's philosophy offers a way beyond rigid beliefs. He bypassed debates on God's existence, deeming them unproductive. His focus was on ...
Quote of the day by Sir Isaac Newton: ‘Atheism is so senseless…’Isaac Newton, a pivotal figure of the Scientific Revolution, made ground breaking discoveries in optics, mechanics, and mathematics. His ob...
- Spiritual atheist
Albert Camus, the French existentialist, famously declared himself neither a believer in God nor an atheist. He believed that non-belief in...
DMK never professed atheism, anybody is free to worship gods of their choice: TN minister P K Sekar BabuTamil Nadu Minister P K Sekar Babu dismissed BJP state chief K Annamalai's claim that the DMK altered its atheism stance due to BJP's activ...
Think holi-stically, multichromaticallyHoli's celebration of a multichromatic world - instinctively considered as an 'Indian' way of viewing the world whether through its clothes...
- Eastern consciousness
There was already a word in Sanskrit for one who's beyond all these meandering issues. Like the Buddha, he's iish-paran(g)mukh. The Buddha ...
How religion is scripting a Tamil Nadu returnThamizhachi considers atheism or irreligiousness as a feature of a social movement that fights caste inequality and subjugation of women.
- Spiritual Health
There wouldn’t be many nutritional specialists in hospitals otherwise to try to guide us back to good health after an illness without havin...
- Being is believing
Is atheism a religion? According to the American judiciary, it is.
- Marriage of Two Memes
Someone must have once said that unless the gods were propitiated to cause rain, the crop would fail. It was a meme that spread like wildfi...
- Minority report
Kathleen Taylor, a research scientist at Oxford, says that religious fundamentalism may one day be treated the same way as mental illness.
A closet full of beliefsImagine Adi Shankaracharya as a brand ambassador of spiritual atheism. Others walked that way before him - Siddhartha Gautama, for example.
Can one be truly faithless?Why do so many people swear by a sense of value, mystery and purpose in life in spite of their atheism rather than in addition to their ath...
Goodness, God-nessWhen the philosopher Nietzsche declared “God is Dead”, what exactly did he mean? Simply, that the decline of religion.
Faith from an illusionCould there be a fourth alternative besides the much wrenched and wrangled over trinity of theism, atheism and agnosticism? Something beyon...
- It’s more about the power of faith
In the frighteningly funny anti-war novel Catch 22, Yossarian the terminally sane protagonist has an insane argument with his girlfriend ab...