Daniel's Pit

We meet once again cave people, a deja vu like the one my dear team, Arsenal, felt on meeting Olympiacos again. It is similar because most of the fans hoped for the match-up just like I hoped to be here scribing for y'all again. The difference is that Arsenal were hoping for an avenue for revenge after the bloody nose they gave us last time out at the emirates which led to our disqualification from Europa. Well they gave us a bloody nose again at the Emirates but the blow was't fatal to our qualification. I, in contrast to my team, am not here for revenge but to stir controversies again. Wish me luck. "Mystery of creation is the unbreakable pillar of religion", this sentence was a copy on a content I posted on my Instagram page for my deep quotes on @deeptinz (kindly check it out, thanks). I know y'all are prolly tired of me and religion, but it is prolly the most controversial topic in the world and I bask where controversy reside. The content I made provoked (in...

Introduction In his book, The Secular Age , Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher, traced the development of secularism across three significant epochs: impossible not to believe, possible not to believe, impossible to believe. The first stage (impossible not to believe) describes the traditional, pre-modern age where belief in a God was ubiquitous, and it was mostly impossible not to believe in God. In those days, the question was which God or god exists, not whether there was God or a god. In fact, Miles Coverdale coined the word atheist when translating the bible to English in 1534. He had to come up with a word to describe unbelief. But we moved from the pre-modern age to the modern age, where it was now possible not to believe. The French Revolution (and its rationalism) and the mainstreaming of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species began to provide a philosophical foundation for the popularity of unbelief. Soon, an entire economic and political system-communism-was...