In the modern world, where science is elevated to the rank of religion and spirituality is often dismissed as “outdated,” Vaklush Tolev takes an unusual but deeply insightful look at atheism. He does not condemn it or romanticize it—but analyzes it as a social, cultural, and spiritual phenomenon. Atheism, he says, is not the absence of God, but the absence of wakefulness. It is a rejection not so much of the divine as of man’s ability to see beyond the visible.
