A review by bookmanomkar
Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse, by Bhagat Singh
5.0
"One's reasoning may be mistaken and even fallacious. But there is a chance that he will be corrected because Reason is the guiding principle of his life. But belief, I should say blind belief is disastrous. It deprives a man of his understanding of power and makes him reactionary."
- Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist
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We all know the great freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh, by his revolutionary acts which shook up the British Raj but very few are aware of the thoughts behind making him a man who offered his life for Independence of our nation.
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Why I am an atheist is an essay by Bhagat Singh written in Lahore Central Jail in reply to his religious friends who thought Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity. The clarity of thoughts he possessed at such an age of 22 is so remarkable. The reasoning he gave in the book with the support of logic reveals the practical philosopher inside him. Another thing which we realize from this book is his socialist convictions (which our dear education boards never took any effort to mention in school textbooks
- Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist
•
We all know the great freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh, by his revolutionary acts which shook up the British Raj but very few are aware of the thoughts behind making him a man who offered his life for Independence of our nation.
•
Why I am an atheist is an essay by Bhagat Singh written in Lahore Central Jail in reply to his religious friends who thought Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity. The clarity of thoughts he possessed at such an age of 22 is so remarkable. The reasoning he gave in the book with the support of logic reveals the practical philosopher inside him. Another thing which we realize from this book is his socialist convictions (which our dear education boards never took any effort to mention in school textbooks