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Exploitation of religious people prioritized over genocide and war crimes
(Article in Greek below / Το άρθρο στα Ελληνικά ακολουθεί) When genocide and war crimes are committed in the Middle East, here is the top priority (!) of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign...
A Sufi Atheist
The declaration “Ana al-Haqq” (I am the Truth/God | أنا الحق) by the 10th-century Persian mystic Mansur al-Hallaj remains one of the most explosive moments in intellectual history. While t...
Why Religion Feels Universal, A Secular Take
As an atheist, I’ve always found religion fascinating. I don’t believe in it, but I see it as a powerful and lasting part of human culture. Almost every society, no matter how isolated, has created so...
The OU Essay Controversy: When Academic Standards Collide With Performative Outrage
A Christian student at the University of Oklahoma has filed a complaint alleging religious discrimination — after turning in a biblically-based opinion piece that failed to meet even the basic expecta...
Are Liberal Churches Allies?
There are a few reasons why I, an American nonbeliever, started attending a Korean church. For one, I’m currently doing a degree in anthropology and have that mindset. Cultural anthropologists will im...
Frida Kahlo: A Woman Beyond Belief
“ourselves – variety of the one incapable of escaping to the two – to the three – to the usual – to return to the one. Yet not the sum (sometimes called God – sometimes f...
PATCA – Where Culture Meets Purpose in Melbourne: the Heartbeat of Global Unity
Imagine a gathering where ancient traditions pulse with modern energy, where justice, humanism, and celebration dance hand in hand. Welcome to PATCA—the Periyar Ambedkar Thoughts Circle of Australia—a...
Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar: Sentenced to 30 Months for a T-Shirt
On 3 September, Moroccan feminist and human rights defender Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined for blasphemy. Her crime was nothing more than wearing a T-shirt th...
Is God an Order or a Disorder or Both?
In his influential book, God Delusion (2006), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins declared the belief in God as a “delusion”, echoing what Sigmund Freud did in his early 20th century milestone ...
Love Jihad, Forced Conversion, and the Kerala Tragedy
Introduction: The Kerala Suicide and the ‘Love Jihad’ Debate The recent suicide of a young woman in Kerala, allegedly linked to forced conversion to Islam, has reignited the contentious de...
Visual Representation of Prophets
Visual representation of prophets is a contentious topic that varies widely among different religious traditions. Recently in Turkey, a number of cartoonists and staff from a famous cartoon magazine L...
Secretary of War, Christian Nationalist
Donald Trump is a leader with an unusual breadth of mind – such breadth that he does not fit into the narrow corset of commitments, obligations, institutions, agreements and other similar “prejudices”...