Tag: Atheist

Can atheists find fulfillment and meaning in life? For committed religious people, especially those raised in religious families, comprehending how life can hold value without a belief in God may be challenging. They might genuinely struggle to understand how atheists derive meaning from their exist...

Having said that, I have seen my father living a very honest life. When I say honest, I don’t mean going to the places of people and telling them the truth or pearls of wisdom. I mean a life that is honest to himself. Something he taught me when I was moving to another city for college. ...

Prior to October 2019, I thought anyone who needed a fairy tale father in the sky was weak minded. I thought the Bible was written by a secret society to try and keep people in fear and have power over them. The first time I went to Church (as an adult), it was with business on my mind. I was ...

As a confirmed atheist who believes all religions are false and superstitious, I identify as a Hindu. This may seem contradictory, but Hinduism, unlike other religions, accommodates atheistic philosophies that resonate with me. The Acceptance of Atheism in Hinduism: Hinduism is unique in that it...

Richard Dawkins, a biologist famous for his book The Selfish Gene (1976) and for his later collaboration with the New Atheists, made a transphobic tweet in April 2021. Consequently, the American Humanist Association revoked an award it had given him 25 years earlier. One might imagine...

I am a scientist through and through but for the past 10 months or so my “faith” in science has encountered an additional challenge. In some of my other articles here on Medium, I investigate and write about the problems plaguing our modern mathematics and physics but this challenge has ...