by Ankur Betageri (June 2015)
We atheists, children of reason and science, have been judged harshly and unfairly. We have been seen as monsters and brutes: as coldblooded unemotional psychopaths out to destroy the wise, dreamy and intuitive landscapes of faith. As a child this is exactly how I saw atheists in relation to religion. I saw atheists as defilers of the sacred. Growing up in Basavanagudi, that stronghold of ancient tradition and faith of cosmopolitan Bangalore, this was natural. Even now the remembered image of aarti –flames lighting up the contorted bronze figure of Hanuman in that dim-lit temple in Gandhi Bazaar fills my mind with astonishment and awe. more>>>
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One Response
Great article.
Disagree that islamophobia is spiteful. It is just a silly recently made up word aping the Word homophobia for political ends. I think it does not have the same power as Homophobia. Islamophobia can easily bee made fun of by being referenced as Islamofauxbia!