Human civilisation is now so accustomed to advanced technology that we forget how astonishing it truly is. A smartphone contains billions of transistors. A modern processor performs billions of operations every second. Artificial intelligence platforms analyse language, recognise patterns, and predict outcomes at scales that exceed human capacity. Yet if you placed humanity’s most brilliant […]
1. Introduction There is a growing group of people who call themselves believers yet live entirely as nonbelievers. They attend religious events, speak the language of faith and may even defend their religion in public. But when you follow their behaviour, their choices, their explanations of the world and their daily habits, something becomes clear.
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Introduction: Humanity´s Oldest Instinct Every civilisation that ever existed created some kind of god. This is one of the most revealing facts about our species. It is not a universal proof of the divine. It is a universal proof of the human need for the divine. When early humans looked at a violent, uncertain world,
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1. Introduction There are few words that travel so confidently through history despite having no solid ground beneath them. Blasphemy is one of them. It sits at the centre of religious emotion, moral panic and political control. To believers it feels like a genuine offence. It feels like something dangerous has been violated. It feels
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Introduction: The Question That Never Dies Whenever someone rejects religion, the same question quickly follows: if there is no God, what stops you from doing evil? It is a claim repeated for centuries, from pulpits and parliament floors to dinner tables and comment sections. It sounds reasonable only until it is examined. Human beings do
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Introduction: Two Ways of Knowing Since the dawn of thought, humanity has sought to explain the world around it. Before the language of atoms, there was the language of gods. Lightning became anger, illness became punishment, and existence itself was a story told to calm fear. Then came evidence. The scientific method transformed explanation into
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Across history, a handful of writers have reshaped how humanity thinks about belief, doubt, and evidence. Their books continue to challenge assumptions and inspire independent thinking. 1. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins A biologist’s case for a natural world without design. Dawkins argues that evolution and probability explain complexity better than divine purpose. 2.
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An atheist does not believe in any gods.An agnostic does not claim to know whether a god exists. People confuse the two because they assume belief and knowledge are the same thing. They are not. The core difference is simple: atheism is about belief, while agnosticism is about knowledge. One answers what you believe. The
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1. The Island Child Imagine a child born alone on an island, untouched by human stories.No priests, no prophets, no holy books.Would this child invent your god?And if that same child died without belief, would they go to Heaven? That single question exposes a deep flaw in every religion that claims moral authority. If salvation
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Why Islam and America Resist the Global Exit from Religion 1. Knowledge as the Great Dissolver Across much of the developed world, religion is not under attack, it is simply evaporating. The quiet revolution of information has dissolved the soil in which faith once grew. The more access people have to science, education, and open
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