The impact on society of having religion and the persecution of science by religious groups.
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 […]
The Accident of Faith: How Birthplace and Indoctrination Decide Your God Read Post »
Introduction Gold glitters across altars, chalices, and crosses. It adorns vestments and ceilings, shimmering in candlelight as choirs sing beneath domes painted with saints. To the believer, this radiance may suggest the light of heaven. To the critic, it speaks of earthly wealth disguised as holiness. For centuries the Christian world has surrounded itself with
Gilded Altars, Empty Bowls: The Church’s Obsession with Gold While the Poor Starve Read Post »
Opening – One Eye Open In May 2022 the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice decreed that Afghan women must cover their faces in public, ideally wearing the full-body burqa leaving only the eyes visible (PBS NewsHour). In August 2024 that decree became formal law, part of a morality code
Half a Face, Half a Freedom: When God Spoke Only to Men Read Post »
Introduction: The Mind Under Siege Thought crime is the purest tyranny. It punishes not deeds, but ideas. In 1984 George Orwell made it literal: the Party prosecutes citizens for thoughtcrime, using telescreens, hidden microphones, reenactment, minders. But totalitarian regimes are not the only offenders. Religion long ago claimed the same domain: inner life, doubt, desire,
Thought Crime: The Oldest Sin Read Post »
There is no greater betrayal of the human mind than to take a child, born curious and fearless, and fill it with fear before it has learned to think. Religion calls it teaching. The honest word is indoctrination. Across cultures and centuries, the same formula repeats: before the brain can reason, it is branded with
The Crime of Faith Before Reason Read Post »
The Comfort of Knowing Without Knowing Among the most striking qualities of the religious believer is the smug certainty that they are right. No evidence, no reasoned argument, no scientific progress can dent the conviction that God exists, that He loves them, and that their particular brand of belief holds the keys to the universe.
The Smug Certainty of the Theist Read Post »
The beach should be the most democratic of places. Sand, sea, and sun are offered to everyone equally. Yet one image etched itself into my mind: a man in shorts, skin bronzed, wading freely into the water. Beside him, a woman in a full black burqa, her body swallowed in fabric, the heat of the
Shorts and Burqas: A Lesson in Double Standards Read Post »
