Category: Christianity

A Vaisnava Critique of Charlie Kirk’s Case for Meat Eating

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

In a recent public exchange Charlie Kirk defended eating animals on biblical, biological, and practical grounds. His points deserve a careful hearing—and a careful answer—because morality is not decided by applause lines.

Kirk begins with the claim that humans are “above cows,” so killing them is not the same as killing a person. Greater intelligence, however, has never been a moral blank check. History is full of examples—slavery, colonialism, child labor—where the strong used their advantage to exploit the weak, only for later generations to condemn it. True moral superiority means protecting the vulnerable, not breeding and killing them for taste.

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Religion, Fear, and the Reptilian Brain: Why People Reject God Before Understanding Him

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

It is important to acknowledge at the outset that many people have legitimate emotional and intellectual reasons to be suspicious of religion. Certain prominent theological systems promote the notion that God hates particular individuals or groups, withdraws His love from them, and condemns them to eternal punishment with no possibility of redemption. In such systems, divine love is conditional and retractable — and consequently, followers of these religions are often encouraged to withhold their compassion from those outside their belief system. This portrayal of God as selectively loving and eternally punitive leaves lasting psychological scars and colors the way many people instinctively react to any discussion of God or religion.

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Vaisnavism, Metareligion, and the Lens of Revelation

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

Ever notice how some folks try to extract universal “truths” from every religion, as if they’re squeezing juice from a dozen oranges to make a single glass of cosmic OJ? That’s the vibe with metareligion—the idea that all religions are essentially saying the same thing, just in different languages, and that we can find a “higher perspective” by mashing them together. Sounds nice, right? Except, from a Vaisnava presuppositionalist perspective, it’s got some serious cracks in the foundation.

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Christianity Makes Knowledge Impossible

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

Christian presuppositionalists claim that the Christian worldview must be presupposed for knowledge to possible. Unless you accept Christianity, they say, your worldview cannot provide the necessary preconditions of human knowledge and intelligibility.

Here is why they are wrong, and why Christianity cannot provide the necessary preconditions of human knowledge and intelligibility:

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