Whatever significance we assume for human life on earth is entirely rooted in our own illusive pretensions of grandeur. Our birth or death should hardly be of any concern for the universe.
Trump blithely minimizes the lethality of the coronavirus because he doesn’t want to look bad. And he continues to be belligerent and claims that he did exceedingly well in combating the virus, even after some 2.4 lakh Americans have already lost their lives in the pandemic. Trump takes no responsibility for anything, boasts repeatedly about his genius, and shows nothing but contempt for those who happen to get in his way.
In spite of all the scientific progress he has achieved, the modern man is still in search of objective answers to those fundamental questions of life that had troubled the mind of the primitive man. No wonder, he continues to live in the fear of gods and sticks to those ancient rites and rituals to keep the gods in good humour.
The human tragedy in Palestine is real, although it is no more headline news in the international media. In 1958, Ralph Galloway, former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) director wrote, “Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.” This is being proven true by their actions.
‘Hagia Sophia’ (Holy Wisdom) is the name of a magnificent Church built by Roman Emperor Justinian I (r. 527 – 565 CE) some 1500 years ago in Constantinople, his capital city (now Istanbul). This epitome of Byzantine architecture has been grabbing media attention after Turkey’s highest court issued an order on 10.07.2020 enabling the conversion of this 65,000 square feet architectural marvel into an Islamic place of worship (mosque)How did this great Byzantine structure become a mosque?
“There were 5 exabytes* of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.” (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (2001 to 2011)). The other day, I happened to come across this imaginary conversation between a person trying to order a pizza and, presumably, the Google […]
The Roman practice of deifying living and dead rulers appeared quite attractive to the church leadership. It apparently thought that if a temporal ruler or the Roman Senate could confer the status of god upon people, there was no reason why the true representatives of Jesus Christ reigning over the ecclesiastic realm should be denied such a prerogative!
Evolutionary psychology argues that many of the social and psychological characteristics of modern humans were shaped by the hunter-gatherer world that we subconsciously inhabit to this day. Our brains and minds are adapted to a life of hunting and gathering.
“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals”(Richard Dawkins, ‘The God Delusion’) There are two ways in which scripture might become a source of guidance for moral living. One of it is through the instructions […]
“He is not here. See the place where they laid him.” (Mark 16:6) Prologue Going by biblical narrative, Jesus was crucified, along with two criminals, on the orders of Pontius Pilate, the then administrator of Roman occupied Judea. Jesus died at about three o’clock in the afternoon. Since the next day was Sabbath, the divinely […]
