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Why I Am an Atheist is an essay written by Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh in 1930 in Lahore Central Jail.[1][2] The essay was a reply to his religious friends who thought Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity.[3]


Bhagat Singh was a member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association,[4] a revolutionary party in the Indian freedom struggle. He was an atheist who believed in socialism, and he wrote several articles on anarchism[5] and socialism for Kirti.[6] He was arrested on 8 April 1929 in connection with the Central Legislative Assembly bombing case and was sentenced to 14 years life imprisonment. He was re-arrested in connection with the murder of John Saunders, a deputy superintendent of police who was killed by Sukhdev, Rajguru, and Bhagat Singh in 1928 in retaliation for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai.[7] In that case, the trial began and he was transferred to Lahore jail. In the jail, on 4 October 1930, Baba Randhir Singh, a religious man and member of Ghadar Party who was convicted in the first Lahore conspiracy case, met Bhagat Singh and tried to incite his belief in God; however, Bhagat Singh did not change his stand. Thereafter, Randhir Singh said "You are giddy with fame and have developed an ego which is standing like a black curtain between you and the God".[2] As a reply to Randhir Singh, he wrote this essay on 5 and 6 October 1930.[8] On 7 October 1930, all three of the defendants were convicted in the murder of Saunders and sentenced to death. On 23 March 1931, they were executed by hanging in the Lahore jail (present-day Shadman Chowk or Bhagat Singh Chowk).[9]


In the essay, Bhagat Singh states that his atheism was not a result of vanity. He mentions that his family were firm believers in God, that he himself grew up as a religious boy who would chant prayers for hours and goes on to explain how despite this he went on to become an atheist.[3] He mentions that his atheism was also not a result of his association with a revolutionary organization and that most of his comrades were in fact theists, citing the example of Sachindra Nath Sanyal who was a firm believer in God. An excerpt from the essay reads:


Since 2005 atheism has take hold of the public eye in a new way. Ardent atheists like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett have written books like The God Delusion and God is Not Great that directly challenge the place of religion in our society. Branded the "New Atheists," these men have publicly fought religion. This thesis looks at the antagonistic nature of their arguments, and attempts to demonstrate the inherent shortcomings of those arguments. Hopefully, understanding the limitations of the New Atheists can help us find a better, more productive way to live without belief.


Why I am an Atheist is an essay written by Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in 1930 in Lahore Central Jail. The essay was a reply to his religious friends who thought Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity.


Atheism is, of course, nothing new. Nor is the use of compelling and exciting prose to communicate such. Throughout the centuries, some of the greatest masters of prose have been committed to striking at the very foundations of orthodox Christian belief. Whether we think of the great literary genius of John Milton or the firebrand pamphlets of the amazing Tom Paine, Christianity has often been thumped by master wordsmiths. And, of course, there was Friedrich Nietzsche, the eccentric genius of late nineteenth-century German philosophy, whose aphorisms and spellbinding epic, Thus Spake Zarathustra, can fail to fascinate only those with the dullest of literary and philosophical sensibilities. There is, however, an interesting shift taking place in the kinds of arguments which the new, trendy atheists are making.


The clue to what really drives such atheists lies in the obvious answer that they would give to the question, Why do you bother? As Hitchens puts it in his subtitle, the answer is that religion spoils everything. In other words, what drives this new atheism is the same thing that drives the various philosophies collectively known as postmodernism, and also that which drives so much of modern Western culture: taste. This new atheism dislikes religion because it sees its results as being profoundly distasteful. It was Nietzsche who launched an attack on Christianity, not from the perspective of the limits of human knowledge, but from the perspective of taste. He regarded Christianity as false, not because it embodied a set of incoherent and unverifiable beliefs, but because it advocated a morality, a "slave morality," as he called it, which exalted everything that turned his stomach: forgiveness, meekness, mercy, obedience, long-suffering. It was all too distasteful to him. For Nietzsche, Christianity spoiled everything by introducing effeminate values which subverted that will to power wherein lay humanity's true greatness.


They see themselves as engaged in a struggle over the nature of what exactly a civilized, or tastefully organized, society should look like. And religion, because of its distasteful results, can play no part in that. Hence, these new atheists have called for the banning of parental instruction of children in religion. For them, such instruction is not wrong because it tells children a harmless myth, as per the existence of Santa Clause or the Giant Pumpkin, but because it cultivates a set of distasteful values that will undermine the fabric of society. For them, it is indeed a form of child abuse.


Second, we should be careful not to give further fuel to the opposition through intemperate reactions. Rather, by loving our neighbors and walking humbly before the Lord, we can put the lie to the claims they are making. It is interesting that the new atheist's knowledge of Christianity seems limited only to famous Christians, high-profile scandals, and the lunatic fringe. They never mention the small churches working to spread the gospel in the toughest parts of the cities, or the countless individual acts of love that anonymous Christians do every day as part of their daily walk. While the atheists and their arguments will always be with us, we should do out best not to provide them with material for future books.


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