The Case for Reason: Volume Two: A Scientific Enquiry into Belief

by Narendra Dabholkar

Man also decided how these gods were and weren’t supposed to behave.

There are many who don’t ask god for anything. They feel joy and satisfaction in contemplating and worshipping him.

Humans also seek god as a support system for their lives.

Each religious group defends its own views and rituals as true faith and condemns other faiths as superstition.

Not expecting the fruit of our own labour does not need any spiritual apathy towards worldly interests. It is a matter of practical common sense.

mundane life should be governed by human or man-made laws and that the authority of drafting these should rest with the state, not religious bodies.

postmodernism, condemned rationalism and blamed it for the calamities in human culture.

Although man’s freedom to assess his acts and behave accordingly has its limits, he constantly exercises reason to decide what he should do and how he should do it.

morality can occur without faith; the moral urge develops and grows on its own.

‘A camel can pass through the eye of a needle, but not a single rich man can go through the gate of heaven.’