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When Criticizing Women Becomes a Blind Spot

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

In some devotional discussions, it has become fashionable to list the “faults of women” — often using long, sensationalized narratives about female manipulation, deception, instability, or hidden agendas. These narratives present themselves as “traditional” or “strict,” but they rely on selective quotation and ignore something fundamental:

Śāstra gives at least as many — and often far harsher — warnings about the faults of men.

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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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Why God Allows Evil: The Masochism of the Soul

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

Introduction

The question is familiar, almost worn out by repetition: If God is all-good and all-powerful, why does He allow evil and suffering? Why should a child be born into war, a mother bury her son, or a man be driven to despair by loneliness, disease, or betrayal? And if such things are real—and they are—then how can we claim that this world is governed by a benevolent and omnipotent God?

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Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and the Transcendental Argument

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.87.2

“Śukadeva Gosvamī said: ‘The Supreme Lord manifested the material intelligence, senses, mind and vital air of the living entities so that they could indulge their desires for sense gratification, take repeated births to engage in fruitive activities, become elevated in future lives and ultimately attain liberation.’”

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No God, No Logic: The Epistemic Suicide of Atheism

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

The Illusion of Neutral Logic

Many people—atheists and theists alike—believe that logic must be a valid epistemic tool simply because it cannot be denied without being used. “Even denying logic requires logic,” they say. “So logic must be valid.” This argument sounds compelling, but it is deeply flawed. It confuses necessity of use with justification. Just because something must be used does not mean it is grounded in truth.

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Rewriting Krishna’s Reality?

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

People love to act like they can make up reality as they go. They change their pronouns, call themselves a different gender or species — as if simply declaring it could make it true. They do the same with morality: deciding abortion isn’t murder if they call it “choice,” or hookup culture isn’t empty if they call it “freedom.” Every one of these moves comes from the same deep root — the desire to define reality on their own terms. And that’s a dead giveaway that they want to take God’s position. They want the power to say what is real and what is right.

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A Vaisnavism Response to the Problem of the One and the Many

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

One of the most enduring questions in philosophy is the problem of the one and the many. How can unity and diversity coexist in a coherent way? Is reality ultimately one, or is it many? If only unity is real, how do we explain differences? If only plurality is real, how do we explain coherence, order, and meaning? Without reconciling these, knowledge and life itself become unstable.

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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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