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Ethos vs Religion
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Jan 251 min read


The Tiny God
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Jan 251 min read


The God of Gaps
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Jan 251 min read


Morality without Religion
A common claim made by religious people is that morality cannot exist without religion. According to this view, without God or religion, humans would descend into chaos—lying, killing, and exploiting without restraint. Religion, it is argued, keeps people away from evil and motivates them to do good. The saddest part of this claim is that if a person needs religion in order to have moral values, then that person is not actually moral. Such a person does good not because it i

Angad Singh Chatwal
Jan 255 min read


Staunch Opposition of the RSS
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Jan 251 min read


Our Brains, Our Selves: Daniel Dennett
The world-renowned philosopher argues that our inner worlds and religious ideas can all be explained as evolutionary functions of the brain. Daniel Dennett isn’t bashful about speaking his mind. A philosopher and cognitive scientist whose thinking is rooted in evolutionary theory, he is known around the world for his rousing defense of atheism and his detailed analysis of how the physical structures of the brain give rise to consciousness and what some might call our souls. H

Freethinkers Alliance
Jan 2010 min read


'Why I am an atheist' by Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh (born September 28, 1907) was convicted and subsequently hanged on March 23, 1931 for his participation in the John Saunders murder case. We revisit the essay he is supposed to have written between October 5-6, 1930, in response to a prison inmate who tried to convince him of the existence of God, and upon failing, berated him, “You are giddy with fame and have developed an ego that is standing like a black curtain between you and God.” Bhagat Singh was 23 years

Freethinkers Alliance
Jan 2022 min read


Good and Bad Reasons for Believing By Richard Dawkins
A Prayer for my Daughter on her tenth birthday. Dear Juliet , Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me. Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know? How do we know, for instance, that the stars, which look like tiny pinpricks in the sky, are really huge balls of fire like the Sun and very far away? And how do we know that the Earth is a smaller ball whirling round one of those stars, the Sun? The answer to these q

Freethinkers Alliance
Jan 1912 min read



Angad Singh Chatwal
Feb 61 min read


An Empirical Critique of Astrology
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Feb 61 min read


Literature references to agnosticism
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Angad Singh Chatwal
Feb 51 min read
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