navingulia
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Battle of Gods3
No Religion, no single word in any religious book has been written or dictated by God.
99.99% people are born into a religion and then find reasons to justify the righteousness of their religion. Only 0.01% if not lesser people convert to a religion after being influenced by some aspect of its teachings.
Man doesn’t understand himself, he is not able to accept/understand his end/death or his existence. (every living creature is severly programmed through his genes for self preservation). As a result he turns to religion. A Hindu feels you are reborn so death is nothing, a Christian has been promised everlasting life for being a Christian, a muslim has been promised a special place close to God if he dies fighting(not necessarily with weapons) for him.
Religion is a means of getting over the basic fear of humans – death. Every creature strives to protect himself with every bit of his energy, man is no different. After conquering and ruling the largest kingdom ever in human history Genghis Khan,(he wasn’t a muslim) realized he wanted to live forever. He had the whole world searched for a remedy but couldnot. One fine day he fell from his horse and died.
If the whole world and every human has been created by one God why would he need religions to segregate them into groups.
The comedy/trajedy of it all is that every hindu, muslim, Christian, budhist, jew…is so thoroughly convinced about the rightness of his religion. He thinks that probably the people of other religions don’t have the IQ to understand the greatness of his religion or probably they are the children of a lesser God so they don’t deserve to understand his religion.
A Hindu who massacres innocent people in Gujrat riots is a follower of Rama?
A Christian who carpet bombs cities in iraq/aphghanistan killing innocent men, women and kids a follower of Jesus?
A Muslim who slaughters bound unarmed men on video shouting ‘Allah O Akbar’ and bombs innocent people a follower of Allah?
Religions are not the word of God but the need for human beings to identify with a larger symbolic identity. A Hindu proudly puts on a tilak and wears a janeu(religious thread), a Christian gets baptized nad wears a cross, a muslim wears a cap, keeps a beard, gets circumcised, a Sikh keeps long hair, wears a turban and carries a kripan(dagger). And we think this is what God wants from us?
If I cant be a good human being whats the use following these symbolic things.
Religions are nothing but political books written by people to exercise their influence over as large a population as possible. Who ever wrote them was intelligent (and maybe shrewd) because he understood the human inclination towards supernatural and symbolism.
Most religions were dictated by God on top of some mountain, among the clouds to a single man. Why were these Gods so shy of the common man?
Why do all these Gods love to play this favorite game of ‘who will have blind faith in me?’ with us? Or are we playing this game with ourselves?
Every religion has one common aspect. Don’t question anything or you are evil/satan. Is it so? Or is it because the God(or the man who created him) was scared that if he allows people to question his truth(or fallacy) maybe discovered.
We have to learn to be humans first. Don’t drag God into it.
I recently went to a temple and there was a board outside that read ‘non-hindus’ are not permitted inside. I didn’t go inside.
Some years back I had gone with a few friends to Ajmer and we visited the Muslim holy shrine but I didn’t enter. My fried said ‘Are you a staunch Hindu?’, I said no, its because if I don’t get it here I certainly wont get it after going inside.
If we have not discovered happiness, joy, love, compassion, understanding, respect for each other, forget about God. Don’t drag him into it.
No Religion, no single word in any religious book has been written or dictated by God.
99.99% people are born into a religion and then find reasons to justify the righteousness of their religion. Only 0.01% if not lesser people convert to a religion after being influenced by some aspect of its teachings.
Man doesn’t understand himself, he is not able to accept/understand his end/death or his existence. (every living creature is severly programmed through his genes for self preservation). As a result he turns to religion. A Hindu feels you are reborn so death is nothing, a Christian has been promised everlasting life for being a Christian, a muslim has been promised a special place close to God if he dies fighting(not necessarily with weapons) for him.
Religion is a means of getting over the basic fear of humans – death. Every creature strives to protect himself with every bit of his energy, man is no different. After conquering and ruling the largest kingdom ever in human history Genghis Khan,(he wasn’t a muslim) realized he wanted to live forever. He had the whole world searched for a remedy but couldnot. One fine day he fell from his horse and died.
If the whole world and every human has been created by one God why would he need religions to segregate them into groups.
The comedy/trajedy of it all is that every hindu, muslim, Christian, budhist, jew…is so thoroughly convinced about the rightness of his religion. He thinks that probably the people of other religions don’t have the IQ to understand the greatness of his religion or probably they are the children of a lesser God so they don’t deserve to understand his religion.
A Hindu who massacres innocent people in Gujrat riots is a follower of Rama?
A Christian who carpet bombs cities in iraq/aphghanistan killing innocent men, women and kids a follower of Jesus?
A Muslim who slaughters bound unarmed men on video shouting ‘Allah O Akbar’ and bombs innocent people a follower of Allah?
Religions are not the word of God but the need for human beings to identify with a larger symbolic identity. A Hindu proudly puts on a tilak and wears a janeu(religious thread), a Christian gets baptized nad wears a cross, a muslim wears a cap, keeps a beard, gets circumcised, a Sikh keeps long hair, wears a turban and carries a kripan(dagger). And we think this is what God wants from us?
If I cant be a good human being whats the use following these symbolic things.
Religions are nothing but political books written by people to exercise their influence over as large a population as possible. Who ever wrote them was intelligent (and maybe shrewd) because he understood the human inclination towards supernatural and symbolism.
Most religions were dictated by God on top of some mountain, among the clouds to a single man. Why were these Gods so shy of the common man?
Why do all these Gods love to play this favorite game of ‘who will have blind faith in me?’ with us? Or are we playing this game with ourselves?
Every religion has one common aspect. Don’t question anything or you are evil/satan. Is it so? Or is it because the God(or the man who created him) was scared that if he allows people to question his truth(or fallacy) maybe discovered.
We have to learn to be humans first. Don’t drag God into it.
I recently went to a temple and there was a board outside that read ‘non-hindus’ are not permitted inside. I didn’t go inside.
Some years back I had gone with a few friends to Ajmer and we visited the Muslim holy shrine but I didn’t enter. My fried said ‘Are you a staunch Hindu?’, I said no, its because if I don’t get it here I certainly wont get it after going inside.
If we have not discovered happiness, joy, love, compassion, understanding, respect for each other, forget about God. Don’t drag him into it.