do you really think religion has given indians a reason to stay sane and have faith in humanity?? tell that to a child who's parents were trampled to death by a mad rush of humans blinded by a delusional belief in a stone/wood or whatever. or was it ur god's will?????? again tell that lie to the child who is now an orphan. have you ever seen a deluded family performing meaningless rituals??? have u seen the level of hysteria involved? what do you think if u transport these deluded people to a place jampacked with a million other of their ilk. do you think u will be able to prevent a tragedy of this sort from happening. sorry. people drugged with religion do not care about humans. they only care about their beliefs, their rituals and superstitions. nothing can come between their beliefs and themselves. there is no civic sense, no humanity when it comes to belief.
RE:religion keeps people sane???
by Pulsar on Aug 07, 2008 08:45 AM Permalink
While it is true that stampedes occur sometime because people rush in to take a look at the deity, in this particular case that is not what happened. There is no final word on what caused the stampede and the rumors are about landslides, not about people rushing to see the deity.
Also, though it is correct that people's religious zeal can sometimes be a cause for stampede, it is generally not the main cause. The main cause is the lack of proper facilities and crowd management at the temples. If even one-tenth of that 9 crores were spent properly in modernizing the temple surroundings, this incident might not have happened.
RE:RE:religion keeps people sane???
by DL on Aug 07, 2008 11:54 AM Permalink
i dont think my tax money should be spent propagating superstitions like god. i dont want my tax money to be wasted on structures built for propagating harmful and divisive beliefs. many of these places are places that do not allow women to enter. it is very important to keep the temple(church,mosque) separate from the state. it would be better if instead of pouring money down this black hole of superstition, if money were spent in colleges, roads, human welfare, animal conservation, agriculture, science. if instead of doing thread ceremonies on their boys, parents would instead educate their 12 year old boys that eve teasing should not be tolerated. if instead of telling little girls entering puberty that now u r not allowed to go to this temple on these days, instead open the doors of scientific inquiry to her. show her how beautiful her body maintains her menstrual cycle. how stem cells which can make any organ (theoretically) are present in her menstrual blood. make her feel proud of her body. instead of spending my tax money on 'modernizing' a rotting system, spend it instead on the future.
RE:religion keeps people sane???
by Prashaanth TR on Aug 07, 2008 08:22 AM Permalink
excellent thought.. u hit the nail on it's head.. religion and stupid beliefs is the bane of our society..
RE:religion keeps people sane???
by deepak on Aug 07, 2008 08:35 AM Permalink
stop being morally superior morons. other than Islam all religions are good and brings people together..wihtout Hinduism there is no India.
RE:religion keeps people sane???
by DL on Aug 07, 2008 11:47 AM Permalink
u mister have a classic sense of conceit. my religion is good and my neighbour's religion is bad. look at the bloody caste system. a brahmin is born from brahma's ear/nose whatever. a kshudra is born from this thigh....look objectively at ur belief system and u will realise how hilarious and how harmful it is. sati, shaving a woman's head bcos her husband died, considering a menstruating woman 'impure' were/are all part of ur religion. do you know which thought processes led to banning some of those heinous practices? a sense of humanity as propagated by western beliefs. not christian beliefs but beliefs propagated by western secularists, humanists like Rousseau and others starting from the french revolution. open ur eyes to the world. look objectively. it is not turtles all the way down...
