One more on Hinduism
I’ll wrap up my Hinduism series by returning to the question that inspired it all: I would be interested in how Hindu theologians and scientists square th...
Tag: Hinduism
Where was Kurukshetra?
This spring I started re-reading the Mahabharata for the first time since I was about twelve years old. It is a Hindu epic that culminates in a war between two ...
The intellectual vs the experiential
Thanks to everyone for their fantastic comments on my last post on Hinduism. They were humbling to read and think about. There’s too much good stuff there...
On intellectual faiths
I’m about to write a sentence that might offend some of you. I know it may do so because when I realized what I believed I became offended. I spent a long...
Religion as doing vs thinking
I’ve been asked many times if I ‘believe’ in Hinduism. Until about 15 I mechanically answered yes. During my bout with rabid atheism I just as...
On my Hinduism
My writing here might suggest I care about religion in the context of science, or evolution in relation to creationism. But those interests came much later. For...
Dr. K Responds
Dan Kahan graciously responded to my post about Hindu doctors who believe in astrology (of which there are many I assure you!): The Pakistani Dr leaves nonaccep...
Useful is better than true
To reflect a bit more on astrology…I wonder why exactly my mother should embrace modern cosmology and reject Hindu astrology. Would it make even the sligh...
Astrology does work for some people
As I return from a long blogging break, I thought I’d briefly turn away from creationism and instead discuss astrology. I was inspired by Phil Plait’...