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- Buddha and non-theismBuddha's philosophy offers a way beyond rigid beliefs. He bypassed debates on God's existence, deeming them unproductive. His focus was on ...
- God and GodlinessBelief in God varies globally, with some seeing a form and others a formless entity. Science touches upon the Big Bang but not 'Time Zero'....
- Spiritual atheistAlbert Camus, the French existentialist, famously declared himself neither a believer in God nor an atheist. He believed that non-belief in...
Bhakti is devotion is loyalty?In mediaeval Sanskrit literature (kavya), we often find similar sentiments being echoed with men complaining about the faithless courtesan ...- Eastern consciousnessThere 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 ...
- Theists and All OthersThere is a third category, the agnostics. They neither believe nor disbelieve. They are like the cat on the wall, jumping neither this side...
- Residual doubtDarwin may have expounded one of the most elegant biological theories of evolution by natural selection but he apparently had reservations.
- A novel godGod is finite and learning and evolving as the universe learns and evolves. Which of course makes him neither omnipotent nor immutable.
- Faith from an illusionCould there be a fourth alternative besides the much wrenched and wrangled over trinity of theism, atheism and agnosticism? Something beyon...
- Nature Plus NurtureThis column featured neuroscientist David Eagleman’s possibilianism previously. It rejects polar positions of theism and its opposite, athe...
- Up above the sky so highNOTED journalist and polemist Christopher Hitchens has accused votaries of Christianity and moral theism of promoting ‘celestial dictatorsh...
- So where does our bad come from?From the moment they reject the existence of God, atheists - at least the thinking ones - run headlong into the problem of goodness. Natura...
- Beyond good and badSinbad the Sailor and his companions get marooned on a vast floating island. They’re weary and wet and one lights a little fire. That’s whe...
- Gardner of beliefsMartin Gardner, who died at 95 recently, became synonymous with recreational math with his column in Scientific American. But he also had a...
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