{"id":12121,"date":"2013-12-05T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12121"},"modified":"2013-12-05T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T11:55:37","slug":"a-conversation-between-an-atheist-and-a-believer-gadadhara-pandit-dasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12121","title":{"rendered":"A conversation between an atheist and a believer (Gadadhara Pandit Dasa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to start the sound player:<br \/>\n<smp3 file=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/pointofinquiry\/Pandit_Zepps.mp3\" width=\"400\" songvolume=\"90\" backcolor=\"ffffff\" frontcolor=\"000000\" autostart=\"false\" showdownload=\"true\" repeatplay=\"false\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/192013-12-05-12-4619.jpg\" align=\"left\"  width=\"300\" \/>This week&#8217;s Point of Inquiry features Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, first ever Hindu Chaplain for Columbia University and New York University, the interfaith chaplain at Union Theological Seminary, and author of Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine. Pandit, who teaches courses on Hindu scriptures, has spoken at a recent TEDx Conference and was featured in the NPR piece &#8220;Long Days and Short Nights of a Hindu Monk.&#8221; He appeared in a PBS documentary on the Bhagavad Gita, and is also a regular contributor for the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Host Josh Zepps frames this episode\u2019s interview as a conversation between an atheist and a believer. Pandit discusses his views on science and faith, inter-religious conflict, and the perspectives of a believer on atheism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/262013-12-05-12-4826.jpg\"\/><strong>By Josh Zepps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Host Josh Zepps frames this episode\u2019s interview as a conversation between an atheist and a believer. Pandit discusses his views on science and faith, inter-religious conflict, and the perspectives of a believer on atheism<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}