1. While atheism and Christianity may seem at polar opposites in mainstream discourse, the reality is that they are actually singing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to Hindus.
The denigration of Hindu civilisation and culture to which the western world owes so much is
The denigration of Hindu civilisation and culture to which the western world owes so much is
2. enacted with the standard neocolonialist and racist mindset which stalks the narrative as a common βkiller appβ of both atheism-rationalism-secularism-humanism and its conjoined twin of fundamentalist Christianity to the extent that on reading such ramblings it is hard to
3. determine on which perspective this blind faith is being pushed.
Yet both these dangerous utopian and western universalist contagions find Hinduism a threat to their very relevance which is why they work so hard to keep Hindus out of the picture unless it is to use them as
Yet both these dangerous utopian and western universalist contagions find Hinduism a threat to their very relevance which is why they work so hard to keep Hindus out of the picture unless it is to use them as
4. human punchbags on which to relieve their frustrations. The present accepted dichotomy between atheism and religion, and its more popular subset of scientific rationalism versus faith, dominates the narrative on belief in not just the western world, but also India.
5. When Galileo suffered at the hands of the Church in the seventeenth century, he was not just undermining the long-cherished beliefs of Christianity. After all Pope Urban was his good friend. By asserting through his astronomical observations that the solar system was
6. heliocentric as opposed to geocentric, he was actually undermining the very philosopher whom the British Humanist Association and a host of other atheist groups hold in such esteem. It was not Christianity which first formulated the idea of the planets and sun
7. circling the earth. It was Aristotle.
His model showed the heavenly bodies circling the earth by being transfixed to concentric spheres. Without knowledge of gravity Aristotle asserted that the planets and sun moved in their respective orbits due to
His model showed the heavenly bodies circling the earth by being transfixed to concentric spheres. Without knowledge of gravity Aristotle asserted that the planets and sun moved in their respective orbits due to
8. the force of the Prime Mover or Demiurge. The Church adopted this to mean God.
If this was all Aristotle could be forgiven. But for the atheist-Christian axis matters only get worse. When Arabic numbers arrived in western Europe during the Renaissance in Italy,
If this was all Aristotle could be forgiven. But for the atheist-Christian axis matters only get worse. When Arabic numbers arrived in western Europe during the Renaissance in Italy,
9. they encountered resistance from the Church. Of course using decimal numbers was much more nimble than the clunky complex Roman numerals. Of course these Arabic numbers, as the Arabs themselves acknowledged, were actually Hindu in origin.
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