Enlightenment

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (50th Anniversary Ed.) – A Humanist Spacetime Review

Introduction This review begins with a confession: I recently had a transcendent experience. In its aftermath, I turned to The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, curious whether his insights might reson...

Atheists Before Darwin

In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins expressed his position that he couldn’t imagine being an atheist before Darwin. As it happens, there were atheists before Darwin, and theor...

Is the West Built on Christian Values?

Christianity is about obedience and authority (even submission to worldly authority which is assigned by God), not freedom. The Abrahamic God is a tyrant. Scripture says nothing about democracy and Ch...