From shadows to the stars

* As many as 1.31 million Apple iPhones. * You can buy 93 Bugatti Veyron cars, each costing 850,000 pounds ($1.4 million). * It can fly a person to the International Space Station three times, with spare change of more than 15 million pounds. * You can buy a Big Mac for the entire population of Canada. * It can buy around 138,000 ounces of gold. * It could buy you 80 per cent of the 100 million pounds being sought for the purchase of English Championship (second division) club Newcastle United. * It will make Paris Hilton your new girlfriend... *Based on my calculations with 80m pounds, you could buy close to 123,000 bottles of that champagne which would probably last Ronaldo a year or two based on his consumption. *You could Buy 3/4 of Bill Gates Mansion in Washington. *You could buy a Private Jet with spare cash in hand! But poor old Real Madrid, with Florentino Perez back at the helm, could only think of wasting it on Cristiano Ronaldo. Sheesh!! What a waste...

I have been thinking to blog on this topic for a very long time but had retracted cuz it would seem like im following the footsteps of a certain someone. But as always temptation prevails and here i am blogging away on what i thought i must not. Right, before i go further let me tell you this is just about atheism and not a debate to decide whether "there is a god or not" (i would be buying less enemies this way). So all the people who believe you are up for an interesting and controversial take on religion, sorry to say that i have disappointed you. I dont know from when people have been under the (forced?) impression that there exists a divine force... But i know that i, from a very young age have never been too drawn towards god, which was helped by the fact that both my parents are atheists. The religious ceremonies, which are seldom short and difficult to understand why they are being performed, always exhausted me. You might ask how i attended them when my parents are a...