When one appreciates a painting, poem, cinematic piece of art or any other piece of art, like a novel or an opera song, what is it that strikes you as true perfection in it? Not every art object will be perfect in its fullness, but bits of it — a chapter in a novella, a [...]

According to theists, the whole concept of a world without religion (beter put, without God) would be disastrous and is a concept idiotic from conception. Those same theists attribute basic nihilism to be equal to society-wide atheism, greatly exaggerating the importance of religion in defining moral principles for the community. Nihilism is attributable to atheism [...]

“Religion, in all its forms — orthodox, spiritual, progressive, open, conservative, all — needs to be eradicated from society.” An opinion very common to many outspoken atheists, especially those with bad personal experiences in their past. To turn the whole world, the whole of society, into a secular state of mind, is a pretty hefty undertaking, [...]

To organise the mess that is my mind, I keep a little black book (an actual one) with me and scribble random thoughts in it. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes you get things like this: “laissez-faire, status quo, self improvement.” Don’t know why I wrote it down, what the connection between the three was, or [...]

Whenever I’m around Christians, or “people of faith,” I am reminded of how different I live my life from the way they do. I have no Bible to give me answers about life — I find them myself. No bishop, priest, pastor, is around to tell me what to believe, what choices to make or [...]

I’ve been non-religious for some time now. It has served me well — mostly the ability of being able to define for myself what my feelings towards a certain issue is, has been liberating. Also, the ability to live my life according to how I want to live it, and not according to people who [...]