Archive for Religion
February 26, 2008 at 12:55 am · Filed under Atheism
Every now and then, I get emails telling me to join religious forums, messages from friends telling me to try praying or sometimes I even end up in conversations that has deviated from its original topic and finally down to a point where everyone wants to know why I’m an Atheist, Why I don’t believe, Why I don’t go to a church, Why I never even try praying or even what Atheism really is.
I’m not here to answer all these questions. I’m just trying to get viewpoints from other Atheists who have been riding this band wagon for sometime and is tired of explaining to pretty much everyone around about their Atheism. I’m tired of all the questions, pointing and awkward faces.
Atheists (most of them) are able to adjust with people who are religious. There is nothing wrong with religion, and there is nothing wrong with not believing in religion, AS LONG AS you don’t shove it down someone else’s throat. The problem is when it stops showing us the path through our lives and we attempt to influence others with it. I have come to a point of neutrality, which is simply this. Worship (or chose not to) and let worship (or chose not to). This is easy for most weak atheists, humanists, agnostics, and other non-believers to accept and practice. Every so called “nice” believer might also take this co-existing path. Then, why is it so hard for An Atheist to do things his way? Read the rest of this entry »
January 3, 2008 at 8:57 pm · Filed under Atheism, Bangalore, Biking
Atheists have always been at the forefront of rational thinking and beacons of enlightenment, here’s my way of Standing Out. I just got myself a new helmet with custom design. It has my title “Atheist” with a chineze-wappaneze font (glows in the dark too) =]
Atheists are far more numerous than most people realize. They are everywhere! The bus you take in the morning, your office, the cab driver, and even more possibly, in your family. 90% of my readers are Atheists. I had conducted a survey previously which gave me disturbing results. Read the rest of this entry »
December 27, 2007 at 12:31 am · Filed under Atheism, Bangalore, Christianity, Friends
I received an email from Dad from Bahrain on christmas eve for the first time in a very long time and at first, I thought it was a christmas wish –until I clicked it open. I knew my dad wouldn’t dare wish me for christmas and I was right. My Atheism is what made us not see eye to eye; so if he values god more than family relationships, then be it. Instead, it contained this….
From: Dad
Subject: Fw: Scan Data from FX-262344
Dear Mr Ruben,
Today there is a card for you from US. Scan copy attached. The cover is
Red in colour.
Short and to the point (whats there to talk between us anyway). Someone sent a card to my Bahrain address and dad scanned it and mailed it over. Its not like him to do this, but whatever. I downloaded the attached scan data and opened it. To my surprise, it was this… Read the rest of this entry »
December 23, 2007 at 5:19 pm · Filed under Atheism, Bahrain, Christianity, Family, Old Blogs - Yahoo! 360, Religion, Sequels
Lets go back in time to December of 2002, and we will return to the Part 3 of my original blog entry for December 25, 2006.
The story of a Catholic Teenager turned Atheist - finale
Silence, Reverence, & Peace…
The hallmarks of a Church. I just wish that the new age understood this before they had decided to take their previously unexpressed teenage angst and inflict it upon the Church and Christianity. I lived and still live amongst Christians. I understand Christianity much better than most of the true believers out there. After spending 12 years in bible classes, many years of church every single day (when I lived in Bahrain) & rest of the years, I visited church only on Sundays (after coming back to India). My knowledge about what I am and what I wanted to become was at a turning point. I had my path chosen already. The path of god. No, I wasn’t going to be a priest. I wanted to be out there helping people. The poor, those who are hungry, those who lack spirit. To give them strength, hopes for a better tomorrow. But my faith was to be put to an ultimate test. Read the rest of this entry »
December 20, 2007 at 12:03 am · Filed under Atheism, Hate, Religion, Sequels
It is that time of the year when Atheists around the world prepare to not welcome the cold, commercialized, false cheeriness, horrible hugs, wishes and fake smiles that mask the underlying social-political back stabbing–also known as Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »
December 14, 2007 at 11:48 am · Filed under Atheism, Bangalore, College Life
This is just one of my many “OUT-ing” in my college;
So, its November 2007 & my first semester in college. I had eyes on me for over a week after this incident. What is he playing at? Is he out of his mind? How can he talk to teachers like that? Ruben Babu, the atheist–someone who doesn’t believe in God. An anticleric. A disrespecter of religion. A mocker of Christianity, became popular by a matter of minutes.
An Atheist, being stared at like something vile. Someone like, oh, Diderot (”Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest“). Or Voltaire (”The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning“). Or Bertrand Russell (”The Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world“)….
Unfortunately, I’m no Bertrand Russell…. For one thing, Russell was an energetic anti-religious propagandist, while I have a low opinion of God and my fans are confined to my blog entries. With that day, I achieved what I wanted. The after effects of the day are still something I’d have to wait for.
As I walk into a room full of people, I want everyone to know that my mind is not in sync with their belief system. Once you come OUT, you’ll feel liberated, and your example will encourage others to COME OUT too. I’m not like your average blogger, who blogs his fantasies and lives a totally different life. I write what I did and what I will do. I put my words into motion in real life because the last few years taught me that Action is indeed louder that words.
This is what happened; Read the rest of this entry »
August 28, 2007 at 3:28 pm · Filed under Family, Hinduism
Most of you know that my family is here for the Onam holidays. I’m terribly sorry for leaving without a notice (I wasn’t expecting it either). I was out with my family for the last two days to celebrate the festival. We just got back to my parent’s house & I better write about it when its fresh in my memory.
I was hoping to spend some time with my sister this season. She flew in last week (& no, Emily, her arms were not tired from flying). Just like always, when ever I expected some quality time at “home”, Dad (On leave from his work in Bahrain) booked hotel rooms and dinners at Cochin city (As days pass, I’m less and less informed of what goes on inside my parent’s house). I couldn’t say no to it since Onam was a “family thing”. So, there I was, sitting at the back seat with people who I have nothing in common with, going to some hotel, to sit around a table in a dimly lit room to celebrate another festival that I hate.
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August 18, 2007 at 3:50 am · Filed under Friends, Religion
As-salamu alaykum,
In the younger years of my life, I grew up in an Island Kingdom in the Middle East. Bahrain; A few miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in all the rich & vast beauty of the pristine blue waters of the Persian Gulf; Bahrain, simply hearing her name brings joy to my heart. I was born and raised in Al Bahrain; The land of the beautiful, the land of pearls.
I was raised a Roman Catholic by religious parents, but I loved Islam more than my religion. But it never even occurred to me that I will end up in neither of them. Life took me to a state of skepticism, of reason & of science; it took me, to Atheism.
In Islamic thought, pearls symbolize Read the rest of this entry »
August 15, 2007 at 1:51 am · Filed under Atheism, News & Update
Namaste Everyone!
I’m a proud Indian Atheist. Today, India is celebrating her 60th year of freedom. India was founded as a Secular nation. meaning, no religion is favored over another. BUT, this is not what we see everyday. Read the rest of this entry »
August 7, 2007 at 4:12 am · Filed under Atheism
I’ve waited for ever to write about this. This inspirational youthful song just makes me want to believe in God. To have an Awesome God on my side would truly be, Awesome. Everyone, please take 4 minutes & 55 seconds to watch this video. Its The Awesome God & its one of the few videos that I play everyday on my IPod.
Like I promised in my previous post, I’ll talk about Atheist Morals. I was curious when I asked my Christian friend, “What does it feel like to believe in God?” Her response was a simple, “safe.” . I’d love to have that awesome feeling for the rest of my life, but I simply chose not to live in a delusion. I hope you have watched the video, lets continue..
According to the above video, God’s qualities are… Read the rest of this entry »
