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I Am No Longer An Atheist MUKUL SHARMA tells us what turned a renowned atheist into a believer In December 2004, at the age of 81, Anthony Flew declared that he had become a believer. The announcement came as a huge shock to the whole world’s rationalists, non-believers and secularists alike.The reason was simple: Professor Anthony Flew, a very well-known British philosopher, author and lecturer at several principal universities, had been regarded till then as one of the 20th century’s...

I t’s actually good to be an atheist and not a believer.Atheism has shown me things I would have never thought of as a devout person. I often wonder why people pray to God. I don’t mean people like saints or seers,but just normal people like you and me. Is it for material gain, for someone else or for your own self? Or is it just to vent out your frustrations? Actually,none of them, to be exact. People pray: 1. So God won’t crush them like bugs on plywood. 2.To escape and for...

The booted warbler has arrived in Mumbai. No red carpet or VIP cordons to greet the mousy little bird. It flew in, as it always does every year at this time, travelling vast distances over a Trans-Eurasian arc. So why should Spiritual Atheist care, one might ask. The annual migration of the booted warbler bears silent testimony to a great cosmic connection: it validates the marvellous links that living matter has at the tiniest cellular level, with gargantuan movements of planets at the vastest...

This writer participated in a fascinating online seminar the other day called, “Were there any atheists in the Mahabharata?” Fascinating, because, as it turned out, there really were none — incidentally, asuras don’t count because one could never tell who among them was busy doing penance to which god for what boon. And also because the characters that got cited were the usual suspects. A great deal was written about Jarasandha, the King of Magadha, and his refusal to accept Krishna as...

Is atheism a religion? According to the American judiciary, it is. The ruling came after a prisoner in 2005 claimed that his rights were violated when the warden refused to allow him to form a group of inmates to study and discuss atheism. A federal court agreed. “Atheism is the inmate’s religion, and the group that he wanted to start was religious in nature even though it expressly rejects a belief in a supreme being,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said.Specifically, the point the...

There’s a lot of liberal hooraying when atheist parents are seen to be bringing up their children too in the atheist mould. It should be stressed that most such people take extra pains to raise the wards as well-educated, thoughtful, socially responsible, environmentally aware — perhaps even spiritualistic kids — yet still essentially godless. The question is: is it right? Or to move away from the rarefied abstract of ought, is it fair?

Peter Higgs, co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for physics, reportedly is an atheist. In the 1960s he postulated the existence of a subatomic entity – which came to be known as the Higgs-Boson particle – that gave mass, or substance, to the cosmic interplay of pure energy. 

You don’t have to be a theist or god-believing to be spiritual. But rather, you must be non-physical in your mind to be spiritual. Theists, atheists as well as agnostics can be spiritual if they choose to.

Young adults are faced with a world of choices when it comes to selecting a wardrobe, food, education, friends, vehicles, cellphone, e-applications, entertainment and ideology. However, they are expected to stay bound to the faith they are born into. Sonal Srivastava examines why elective faith is an important part of growing up in a world where liberty is given high priorityWhat does freedom mean to you? Does it mean the right to do anything you want, or does it go deeper than that? True...