Tag: God

07
Apr
2010

‘Clash of the Titans’ and Humans

The remake of ‘Clash of the Titans’ is more fascinating than its 1981 predecessor for a number of reasons. Firstly,…

30
Mar
2010

How Humans & God(s) Arose

With close reference to Buddhist scriptures, here are three interesting articles with the Buddha’s perspectives on the origin of humans…

22
Mar
2010

What Might a Cat Say?

In the award-winning ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ (Le Chat du Rabbin) by Joann Sfar, which ‘The Boston Globe’ calls, ‘An affecting,…

08
Mar
2010

‘A Serious Man’ with Serious Doubts?

‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in…

22
Feb
2010

Cold, Darkness & Poor Reasoning

The truthful are truthful, whether they believe in God or not. The good are good, whether they believe in God…

12
Jan
2010

India Adventures (4): Buddhism is Not Hinduism

Early during the pilgrimage, our Indian Hindu ‘sub-guide’ (who isn’t the main guide, who is instead Buddhist) introduced God (Trimurti) as…

05
Jan
2010

Beautiful Love Story

I saw this as the ‘blurb’ of the new PostSecret book – ‘PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God’. I…

23
Nov
2009

The Buddha Didn’t Prophesise about Jesus

There has been a email circulating for years already. Its subject header reads: ‘Siddharta [sic] Gautama Buddha (First Buddha) [sic]…

16
Nov
2009

Is It Safer to Believe in God?

Q: l read a book, from which I gathered that anyone can go to heaven, that all religions are right…

10
Nov
2009

Does Supe Believe in God?

From ‘The Superman/Madman Hullabaloo!’ by Mike Allred: Madman: Do you believe in God? Superman: … After everything I’ve gone through,…

02
Sep
2009

Faith

I don’t have faith that there is an all-forgiving God because the last time he lost faith in us… he…

03
Aug
2009

Not a Case for God?

I read in a Buddhist mailing list that Karen Armstrong’s new book ‘The Case for God’, which is somewhat apologetics…

07
Jul
2009

Divine Love for All

A Tit for a Tat (33) Tit: You ought to eat these (pointing to meat dishes on table). Tat: Why?…

06
Jul
2009

Is Superman an Angel?

In ‘Superman: Redemption’ (by Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza and Walt Simonson), Superman hears the desperate prayers of an old lady…

18
Jun
2009

Drag All Out of Hell!

In ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a girl who was just living another day in relative paradise before she encounters an…

08
Jun
2009

Demonisation of the Demonic

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical)…

29
May
2009

We are Works in Progress

If there is an almighty perfect creator, the universe would be a perfect work of art. If the universe is…

27
Apr
2009

Heartland ‘Attacked’ by Angels & Demons

The above billboard gives a hint of the heavy marketing for ‘Angels & Demons’, the prequel of ‘The DaVinci Code’…

13
Mar
2009

Are You a Buddha?

For the second time this week, I was at St. Joseph’s Institution International, invited to give an hour’s presentation to…

28
Feb
2009

Ya! Ya! Oh My God!

Something simple happened a couple of days ago, that upon hindsight, seems more significant than not. I was seated at…