And then there is Raita Wing. Raita is a word given by the trads, I believe. I could be wrong, but raitas are the one who do not want casteism to prevail, who do not want certain superstitions to pay to represent Hinduism, but they still want Hindu as as a protective force, as a protective group.

people would have an upset stomach and he'd pray over them and suddenly it wouldn't have an upset stomach anymore. And there were a lot of things that could be attributed to a placebo effect. When you have physical contact with someone, your body releases oxytocin. Which is called the love hormone, but it's more than that. it has a calming, soothing effect. so you've got this whole chemical explosion in your brain in this incredibly high adrenaline situation where you're in a faith healing rally and you're anticipating it.

This time, I'm interviewing Sanal Edamaruku, one of the big guys in the Indian rationalist movement. He is the Founder and President of Rationalists International and President of the Indian Rationalist Association. He has done so much over the years to fight for scientific temper and rationality in India. In fact, Sanal had to leave India when a group of Christians in India started threatening him when he debunked their claim that their statue of Jesus was weeping. It turned out, the weeping Jesus was not a miracle. The truth of what was seeping out of the statue is a lot more…troubling. In this video, we talk about his origin story, the importance of scientific temper, the whole account of what led to his leaving the country, the latest updates on rationalist international, and his advice to the new sceptics and rationalists of India who are fighting superstition every day.

There was the death of a popular Christian recording artist in the nineties, 1997. Rich Mullins was his name, horribly killed in a car accident.

I remember being on the radio telling everybody that God had called him home, and it just made no sense. I was on the radio, and in my skull, I was thinking, this is a bunch of crap. This, this doesn't, this doesn't wash.

we have in several European countries Australia North America, so Mexico, Canada. Yeah. There is currently no support group per se in Asia, unless you count Australia as Asia. I guess not. There's not but still, we will support people from anywhere. We have several phone lines. They're all in English from different English-speaking countries. , but anyone can contact us and we'll talk about what we do through the web. You just get to our web page and you can chat to us or you can make a web-based phone call for free. So yeah, we will talk to people from anywhere in the world.

This is my interview with an atheist podcaster and Youtuber Vimoh or Vijayendra Mohanty. He discusses his story of becoming an atheist and his perspective on the Hindu religion. We also discuss some handy tips on discussing Hinduism with believers and the books you should read as an atheist to be more informed about Hinduism.