The
blessings, benedictions, beauty, businesses, battles, browbeats, bluffs,
barrenness and much more are packed as mixture inside a box with a brand name
called ‘Religion’.
However,
certain items are expected in this box as ingredients of the mixture especially items like God, Enlightenment, Spiritual
experience, philosophical concepts, rational explanations, debates, syncretism,
ideological veneration, blind faiths, belief systems, scriptural authority,
devotion, worship, socio-cultural activities, traditions, customs, scripture
sponsored or life’s experience propelled doctrines and so on.
Human beings
born in different environments, cultures, societies are invariably initially
initiated without their consent at a very young age as children and most cases
even as babies to behold the box with a brand name called ‘Religion’.
The mixture
is the result of the churning process wherein at different times and at
different places different ingredients of the mixture dominate to the detriment
of other ingredients or perhaps to compliment other ingredients.
Blessed are the poor, innocent, ignorant are meant to assuage lack of growth.
The whole problem arises because we are all
groping about in the dark and are trying our best to grasp the spiritual
aspect/element/facet of human life besides/beyond its two other fundamental
aspects physical and mental life.
We are all injected with a belief in a supreme power/god/divinity/universal energy which is supposed to be/ really in charge of or part of this spiritual dimension of human life.
We are all injected with a belief in a supreme power/god/divinity/universal energy which is supposed to be/ really in charge of or part of this spiritual dimension of human life.
There are many things or even anything can
help in the process [ as Dhattareya is said to have learnt from many things and rightly
so] like religion, reason, philosophy, psychology, science, social life,
events, ideas, intellectual sharpness, crisis, nature, attitude and cultural milieu.
It was perhaps religion which primary dominated the discussion on many issues or perhaps assimilated and appropriated many rules to decipher the hitherto unknoen aspects of life and developed multiple belief systems and ensured that most human beings had a great affinity/attachment/atavistic association with
religion along with all its beliefs, faiths, rituals etc.
While other mediums of attempting to know the unknown may have produced many works of tangible benefit to humanity;
Religion has not, except many activities of entertainment value, festivity, unrealistic/unverifiable/unverified pronouncements of the self proclaimed/institutionally appointed marketers of divinity/god starting from a local priests to great saints.
They have neither shown nor produced God /Divinity as they claimed.
Religion has not, except many activities of entertainment value, festivity, unrealistic/unverifiable/unverified pronouncements of the self proclaimed/institutionally appointed marketers of divinity/god starting from a local priests to great saints.
They have neither shown nor produced God /Divinity as they claimed.
So, as much as these marketers claimed it was all consumer rights violation.
The whole problem hinges there on the hinge
with a swaying door of uncertainty wherein some get in; some get out; some
watch the door swaying whether and when the God/Divinity will reveal for sure ,
whether is he /she inside or whether/when he/she will come out and reveal
himself/herself or can humanity have any easily recognizable/visually apparent
confirmed clarity on this issue; let us also put aside multiple
theories or long winding lectures with trite words used for the convenience of
language or satisfaction of the status quo addicts because it is always easier
to say that you believe in some god for various reasons and get on with life
rather than getting into skeptical mode/philosophical mode/scientific inquiry and get branded as someone with multiple labels attributed [mostly with a condescending tone] to such a position that one takes .
Many things exist and happen irrespective of
one's belief/non belief or irrespective of what any brainy chap claims/ or
criticizes/condemns.
One credence that can be given to religious
beliefs is that the very fact so many religions have so much of literature, culture
etc indicates that some people somewhere at some time would have come in contact
with someone/something like a powerful passing lightening impacting them with
enlightenment and /or bliss and also played perhaps, though a very remote
possibility, some role in the evolution of human species.
Otherwise humanity as a species would not have bothered to spend so much of time, energy and money in the name of religion.
Otherwise humanity as a species would not have bothered to spend so much of time, energy and money in the name of religion.
Or probably
in some dire situations like insurmountable crisis when all human faculties
like reasoning, thinking and intellect have failed to come to the rescue but
some unknown element or happening beyond or besides the known human approaches
has given a solution and helped, then, perhaps, it is only normal and expected of the
beneficiaries of such elements to extol, popularize and perpetuate those
elements or aspects that have helped them out in such dire situations. Some aspects of religious belief fall in this category too. Whatever happened was perhaps a part of evolutionary process wherein in probability some coincidences may have occurred.
Of course,
we have an overwhelming sea of blind beliefs, fettered faiths, frenzied
following, silly superstitions, presumption that the greater the number of adherents the greater the religion is and doing many things to achieve it and many other negative and irrelevant things, unfortunately, form a major part of many religions and these things in fact bring the greatest disrepute to religions in general.
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