Science enthusiast, Atheist, my inspiration are Periyar, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and more! We accepted the products of science; we rejected its methods. --Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? --Carl Sagan No for: Caste, religion, Dictatorship (left / right/ any), Slavery, Tyranny, Violence, Misogyny, BIG brother, Capital punishment Pseudo science, Snake oil, Crony capitalism. Yes for: Freedom of expression and choice, Scientific method, Rule of law, Progressive Democracy, LGBTQIA+ rights, Pro Choice, Peaceful transfer of power, Volentiary co-operation, Regulated free market, Right to co-exist. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." -- Christopher Hitchens “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.” --Carl Sagan No sympathy for any idealogy that failed the test of time and scientific method! There is no "one fits for all" solution in any idealogy. Let all ideas be rigorously tested, educated and propagated and more importantly: allow people to choose. Consider again that dot 🌍. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. --Carl Sagan! If you have come this far on my profile, would you please consider learning more starting from people here? https://youtube.com/c/InspirationJourney