For many years, and especially in the past 10 years, many so called “Christians” have been supporting the military actions of the United States government. Some do so because of belief that “those guys over there (wherever there happens to be) want to kill us.” And often ask the flawed question, “would you rather fight them over here or over there?” to justify...

On Gandhi Jayanti our tribute to the greatest inspirational leader who became the change he wanted to see. Some of his words from TOI collection:           No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with ahimsa. It ennobles both the vic- tor and the vanquished. * A principle is the expres- sion of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise...

A recent article in the “Opinionator” by philosophy professor Jeff McMahan attracted a good deal of attention on my listservs, which include environmentalists, hunters, and animal studies people — a broad assortment easily set at each other throats. Some took this article as absolutely received word and others said it was obviously provocation and still others...

A billboard campaign undertaken by the North Carolina Secular Association with a coalition of other agnostics and atheists erected six billboards in six cities (including: Greensboro, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Asheville) in North Carolina. The billboards emblazoned with the background of the American flag read “One Nation Indivisible”, a line derived from...

For many centuries, there existed a very strict hierarchal caste ever known to Man, more rigorous than the Japanese feudal system, more obeyed than European serfdom, and more fought against than the suppression of American rights to its African-American citizens.                 The Indian caste system, appropriately named by the British imperialists, was...