I want to tell the people of india and country like aghanishtan,and many undeveloped and developing country that why they are back from the country like U S A ,AUSTRALIA the reason is religion people in india fight for the religion hindus killed muslim and muslim kill hindus because of religion.I dont believe in koran and bhagwat geete or bible or guru granth sahib because i doesnot rely on all this things to lead a life but though i m happy and satisfied because i believe in humanity accoding to me humanity will less the gap of religion and i want to tell to all people of the world that your holy book moral is the humanity not religionality. and my dear freind if you people will believe in serving people rather than advicing about religionality that the world bacame a heaven.
Religion is nothing but a power game. We should do away with religion. We should also accept the fact there is no super power as god. Everyone has infinite potential. Some people in the past could realize it more than the ordinary people and they were marketed as sole selling agent or messenger or incarnation of god (which itself doesnât exist) by the power greedy. But the realization of potential is accessible to everyone. There are rational and reasonable ways to achieve it. Let us be rational, develop our reasoning power and help others with our experience in realizing our potential. In short, what we need is rational individualism.
Your article is good. But the basic problem lies at the very beginning. Right from Faraos of Egypt to modern days and Bush where the ruling class always justify their action in the name of god. Some times toiling mass revolt against the ruler, armed with the philosophy that counter that of ruling class e.g two french revolution, october revolution in Russia and some times they also have to resort to religion. Only a classless soceity can make make religion a dinosaur LADENS and OTHERS are byproduct of the actions taken by ruling class in order to divert the people's upsurge Thus religio is also a potent WEAPON of the ruler.
I strongly disagree Let's start with the basics: Counting the number of deaths caused by theists and atheists is a foolish way to decide if religion is necessary or not.First we need to think about some fundamental questions: 1. Who is man?What is his role in this world? 2. Does this universe have a creator? 3. What is the relationship between man and God(if there exists a God? 4. What happens to man after death? The above questions are beyond the scope of science. It is not true that man has "scientifically" denied the existence of God, Hell, Heaven etc.The maximum science can say is "Don't know". In short, we are in total darkness. We don't know the way. If we are lost in an unfamiliar, pitch dark place, what do we do? If we meet a person who tells us the way, and if we come to know that the person is trustworthy, why should we not follow his directions?Thousands of truthful, sane men have lived on the earth in different times of history and ALL of them pointed their finger in the SAME direction. Would a normal person say that ALL of them are lying? Friends, these truthful men are Prophets. They are the ONLY authentic sources of answers to these ques. raazikt@gmail.com
RE:Religion a necessity
by Dawood on Dec 30, 2005 07:56 PM Permalink
True that science can, at the most, say "it doesn't know" about things that are inherently ambiguous, but, its always better and logical to accept a scheme of things that come from basic building blocks that everyone sees around him/her, using laws of geometry, algebra, physics...that everyone "observes" if he has the "biological" grey matter in his/her brain. It is simply idiotic to say we must rely on some ancient human being(and the height of stupidity is to call them prophets!) who talked of human values which any individual, who is willing to think, can think of himself/herself....so...if u use ur brains well, which "evolution" has given u, u don't need a religion, and u don't need a god....all u can say, for example, is that there is an observer that science has still to "explain", who "collapses" the quantum mechanical wave function of the universe, and brings the universe to "being". For those who just want to give excuses for not using their brains, "god", "religion", "prophets" are a convenient, but stupid, "shell", which keeps them in the DARK forever.....
I agree with Author. Religion is useless unless it raises it's followers to a higher plane of resoning and thoughts.....clear ideas and elegant imagination, and teaches them to interpret the things around. Religion, thus, should naturally urge an individual to pursue thing scientifically, while maintaining the faith that the universe around will become comprehensible that way. That may be what religion really did for ancient sages and philosophers, but today, it's just nonsense and of no use in a logical society. One way to see this is to give example of scientists from 16th century who participated in Renaissance, contributed, in their meagre lifetime, an immense wealth of ideas, theories, designs and art of aesthetic excellence. Most of them beleived in God, Divinity, Religion and even alchemy, but they knew how to keep science and religion in their respective places. All in all, we need to destroy all religions and all Gods and begin our Civilization completely anew....It's time we do that, because we have polluted our ancients' ideas too much....without having any of our own !!!!!!!
Interesting thing to note is that human race has developed some or other forms of religion, independently, all over the world, across various ages. Even the maoris, red-indians, our indian tribes, everybody felt the need to create some or other form of organized religion. The russians are turning to church with a venegeance even after 70 years of brain-washing. I do not know why human-race thirsts for religion this way. But thirst it does. This is the reason why human-race will never be able to give up on this 'cyanide'. This was, as usual, a very ramananda (read brilliant) article. Way to go ramananda!!
For the common man, "Mysticism" is mystery. For him, "Religion" has more to do with his conscience. My conscience says that those who inflict cruelty on dumb animals like fish, chicken, cow and goat, eat their wounds as food and then talk about compassion, kindness, love, truth, non-violence, mysticism, spiritualism & c, are in fact practising sheer hypocrisy. "Too many cooks spoil the broth", So goes an old saying. The writer appears to have read so many books and got confused. And he is conveying his confusion to his readers.
i agree with the comments. but you could have added that most religious beliefs are magical and hence very childish. religions don't allow questioning and want their followers to believe in the concepts and practices blindly. hence many practices like caste system and racism have been glorifed. a sensible good human being does not need religion to lead a good morally high life
The people who have not immersed themselves and watched the religions fence make some judgement,opinion,views which are are all childlike and does not hold good on the logical fronts.they need to meet more religious practioner for their vision to get clear and clear. that is their state in opaque state.god bless them soon. Nksagar
I agree with the author. Although, i respect the sentiments of the religious, at the same time, too strong religious allegiance leads to fanaticism; the evils of which we witness all around the world today. So, religion in moderation is good.
At the same time i also feel that we should occassionally challenge and update religious tenets and make them relevant to the changing times. Nice article, over all.
