September 2022

Six Unique Concepts of Religion

There is a prominent misconception about religious equality under which all religions must be treated with respect. According to this misconception, sacredness is a private belief, and there is no objective sacredness in anything. Hence, either all religions must be rejected or all of them should be given equal respect. In this post, I will discuss why religions are objectively better...

The Fallacy of the Idol Worship Argument

Some religions argue against the Vedic system that its followers worship “idols”. An “idol”, or a deity, as most of us call it, is a symbol of God, like symbols in a book communicate meaning. If you burn a book, you don’t burn the ideas denoted by the book; you only remove one way of accessing those ideas. Conversely, if you...

Problems of Hegelian-Marxist Ideologies

Hegel is credited to have been the first in the Western world to bring the study of history as a subject of philosophy proper. He did so by creating the thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework for history. Hegelian philosophy became the foundation of Marxism that saw society in terms of dualisms of antithesis and thesis. Their conflict led to a revolution in which both...

A Personalist Foundation for Social Sciences

I used the last post to weave many seemingly disjointed ideas—modalities, inseparability, qualities, how the illusion of motion is created without a motion by revelation and hiding of modes, how this leads to alternative ideas of space and time, an alternative conception of laws of motion, and why the idea of a separated reality modeled by mathematics is always false even...