Abandon Religion
By Punkerslut
Why Abandon Religion?
It is so commonly believed today that religion is a source of
goodness and charity for so many people. It is also believed
that to oppose religion is also to oppose the goodness and
charity stipulated to be with it. When I ask others to abandon
religion, they will reply, “Why would you want to abandon
something that has produced so many helpful things?” But I am
not asking people to give up the affectionate and tender ways,
laced with gentleness and humanity. I am not asking that they
give up mercy or justice, things which are just as easily
attainable without religion, if not easier. I am asking people
to give up their fear of hell and daemons, their belief in a
soul and ghosts, their hope of an afterlife and a god, the
creeds founded on the credulous superstitions of their
ancestors. I am not asking the human species to relinquish the
things that are good and accompany every warm heart — I am
asking the human species to ameliorate the ideology that a god
exists that will punish nonbelievers and reward believers, that
will smile at the sufferings of the damned and fortunes of the
saved. I am asking others to abandon religion, which has been a
never-ending source of intolerance for those who have harnessed
any sort of bigotry.
There may be those who persist in the assertion that religion
is inseperable from goodness, and goodness from religion. Would
any religionist be honest to state that without god, they would
allow themselves to be heartless and brutal — to become the
epitome of savage behavior, of unspirited meanness and sincere
hatred? Would anyone who called themselves close to god, and
with good intentions, if this individual were to suddenly
discover that there was no god, would they find themselves to be
less considerate, less hopeful, less charitable? If any
religious person can honestly say yes to this, then it would
only be right to be suspicious of the claim that they are
hopeful, kind, or charitable now. God, this mythical being who
lives apart from the physical world, and his existence are only
questions of science: he either exists or he does not. If he did
not exist, it would hardly deprive anyone of ethical or moral
behavior. If a city, a road, a mountain, a lake, or a natural
formation did not exist that we had believed to exist, at
discovering this, would we abandon all humaneness and all forms
of goodness? Only those who had reveled in hypocrisy and deceit
can truly say so. There is nothing innately special of the
mythical beings called gods that means their existence gives
privilege to moral behavior.
There are, though, the genuine claims that we should not
abandon religion on the grounds that religion has portrayed a
truthful and honest view of the world. Though this claim made be
made on the foundation that we ought to pursue the truth, it
often fails short of that, because religion has universally been
the opponent to investigation and inquiry. There have been times
and eras where the church had disallowed the public from reading
or writing, and had made it punishable by death to be found with
a Bible written in local languages. In 391, Christians burned
down one of the world’s greatest libraries in Alexandra, said to
have housed 700,000 scrolls. [The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 61,
and Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade.] The tale of Galileo
should not need repeating, but perhaps the tale of Giordano
Bruno or Francisco Ferrer need repeating. Though Galileo was
only threatened with death for his claims, Giordano Bruno was
burned to death for his ideas in 1600 and Francisco Ferrer was
shot to death for his beliefs in 1909 — both executed by the
Roman Catholic Church. Giordano Bruno, the great thinker, and
Francisco Ferrer, the great educator; a day does not go by where
their grave loss is mourned by Rationalists and Humanitarians
world wide. Gregory the Great had the library of Palatine Apollo
burned “lest its secular literature distract the faithful men
from the contemplation of heaven.” [Barbara G. Walker, The
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (San Francisco: Harper
& Row, 1983) 208.] The history of Christianity and organized
religion runs parallel to the history of oppression and slavery.
Examination and inquiry have been restrained, and this can be
found in the evidences that every historian ought to be well
aware of. Even today, we find the same radical fanatics, burning
Harry Potter books, and on the same exact claim that it will
deprive children of the religion of Christianity. We also find
Christian fanatics working to ban books in public libraries,
including works by Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger., and Maya
Angelou, sometimes on the exact claim that these works are
“unChristian.”
But asside from the fact that religion tends to disallow
Freethought and investigation, inquiry and science, can it at
all be permitted to call itself truth? As well as having a long
history of suppressing honest and sincere attempts at sciennce
and truth, religion is also founded on superstition and myth.
When man did not understand the origin of the rainbow, he
postulated that it had divine origin. When man did not
understand the origin of the human female, he made the same
claim. When man did not understand anything that was of natural
phenomena, he often times ran to the easy and simple belief that
it was created from a god or a spirit or a ghost. Even beyond
that, though, the evidences and claims of religion are
synonymous with many cultural myths. As I have discussed in
other works, Santa Claus and god both have a remarkable amount
of similarities: both are mystical beings, both live far away,
both have no evidence, both are only believed because they are
taught by community and elders, both have not been demonstrated,
both have supernatural powers, among an enormous amount of other
similarities. But if one is not content to believe that a man
exists who delivers billions of presents to children on one
night of the year, then why would one be content to believe that
a man exists who delivers billions of souls to heaven or hell?
Upon the hundreds and hundreds of fallacies and errors, we find
that religion itself is something deprived of both merit and
science. It has, for ages, worked against the instruments of
truth, often times denying the population the right to think and
believe as they wish. We also find that the foundation for the
belief in religion is identical to the foundation for the belief
in many cultural myths which have also been abandoned. There is
little truth to be found in religion, once an open-minded
investigation has been allowed to examine its institutes.
Instead of finding a realistic and open-minded viewpoint of the
world, we find flaws, oppression, ignorance, and a sizable
amount of cruelty.
Only a small investigation into the real world would allow us
to discover that many individuals put much stock into the
institute of religion. If we were a free and intelligent people,
without the tyranny of a Capitalist class and government
defending them, people would put less concentration into the
things unseen and put such focus onto the real, materialistic
world. Instead of investing in prayers, people would be offering
their kindest and warmest affections to those around them. We
would not build churches, but homes — we would not ask the gods
for forgiveness for our actions, but those we harmed — we would
not pray for things to happen, but make them happen — we would
not rely on the superstitious myths that have guided so many to
bigotry, or rely on the unseen to do what we must do for
ourselves, or praise anything that was nothing more than an idol
representing cruelty and misguided violence. If a man reserves
his love for a god and for angels, he simultaneously deprives
love from those around him. By giving our kindness and
affection, our sincerest dreams and hopes, desires and
aspirations, to this being without evidence, we are losing focus
of the one thing that we do know: our lives. And by losing focus
on our lives, and those around us, we are ignoring the one thing
that we know for sure: that we, as material beings, do exist,
and that we are capable of feeling joy and suffering. To ignore
this is the greatest of ignorances, and the most grave of all
follies.
Tolerance and Acceptance
If there was a god, I would make only one prayer to him: That
his followers would follow truth over scripture, benevolence
over cruelty, science over myth; to ask his followers to be more
focused and concentrated on the things that exist — their
lovers, their family, their children, their friends — to uphold
truth as beautiful, and kindness as sincerity. There is no other
prayer I could give to such a deity ruling over our Universe. If
I were to make such a prayer, though, it may very well be that
such a god would ask him followers to turn against him. That
would only be so, however, only if the god that exists was the
one of a popular Monotheistic religion. Such gods tend to be
described by their scripture as vicious and unrelenting in their
pursuits to control mankind to devious ends.
Religion and its followers have embraced intolerance and have
called it duty and reverence to their lord. Though the disciples
of the cross have managed to do everything in their power to
destroy liberty and happiness, I would be the last man on this
Earth to say that nobody should be allowed to be a disciple of
the cross, or a follower of any religion. It has been the custom
of religion to oppose freedom of thought, but I certainly cannot
oppose this freedom in any form. Whether a man desires to be a
Christian or an Atheist, a Buddhist or a Hindu, it is their own
decision. It is their actions, and not their beliefs, that ought
to be monitored. My belief that everyone should be entitled to
their belief (as well as beliefs about beliefs) is not derived
from the idea that we should not be like those we oppose.
Rather, it is formed from the idea that everyone deserves the
right to believe as they wish, to consider and investigate for
themselves, that power lies within the individual, and even more
deeper, because I believe in humane and fair treatment, I
believe in justice and compassion. Those are the reasons that
are behind my belief in the right to think and believe as one
wishes.
There are some Christians who I have heard say, “I will not
speak to that man or deal with that man unless he is a
Christian.” There are also many Christians who speak of myself
as though I am the first Atheist to walk this planet. But as
well as speaking of me with that harsh, grave tone, they have
systematically made up lies about myself, claiming that I hate
all who claim to be Christians. It seems impossible to some of
the followers of the divine for Atheists or Agnostics, or any
infidel or heretic, to hold charity and mercy as good values. It
may sometimes even be considered unfulfilling to aid an
nonbeliever in any way, to offer them any sort of affection or
kindness, to give them the fruits of a warm heart. But whether
someone believes that a god exists or not, or in any religion,
there will be one fact about that person that will not waver my
humane treatment of them: that they are a conscious being, that
they can feel pain and suffering or joy and happiness, that
touching their skin gently will produce feelings and emotions of
security and happiness. This is something that will not be
erased, no matter what creeds an individual professes to
believe, no matter what ideologies an individual follows.
The Purpose of a Rationalist Humanitarian
My purpose is not to turn every man an woman into an Atheist or
an Agnostic. Such a proposal would be impractical and difficult
to obtain, at best. My purpose is to offer humane and rational
solutions in comparison to the brutal and dogmatic solutions
offered by others. I would like to convince the clergy and the
ministry to teach their youth how to respect each other, and not
how to respect god. I would like to convince those who believe
in religion that there is no hell. I would like to convince
religionists that there is no need to cry in fear of god’s
punishment, that if there is a god, he is merciful and just.
Offering all of the kindness and affection that can be mustered
from a sincere heart, I would like to offer the world all I can
to make it a better place for everyone to live. To maximize
happiness, to teach people how to treat each other warmly and
thoughtfully, to teach them how to think rationally and
logically, to teach them tolerance and acceptance, beauty and
love, duty and kindness… This is my purpose as a Rationalist
and a Humanitarian.
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For Life, Punkerslu
The African Traditional Religion is a religion practiced on the African continent. It is the indigenous religion of Africans with its own distinct features and character of the people who practice it just as Islam has the character of the Arabs, Judaism of the Jews, and Hindus of the Indians. Like other religions, it is difficult to tell when this religion originated but we know it is as old as the Africans.
The African Traditional Religion is not totally different from other religions even though it came under sever the criticisms of the early Europeans who came to Africa to propagate Christianity. This religion was handed down to Africans in oral form exactly the same way other religions emanated and is a way of life of the Africans. This may become reflective in the day to day attitude of the African. Thus the tenets and ideas of this religion exist largely in oral forms and are still very much understood by the Africans themselves who practice the religion.
Another interesting feature of this religion is that it has no sacred book which has caused some critics to readily misleadingly conclude that it is not a revealed religion or religion of the book. Some have also labeled the religion, a religion of backward people. The African traditional religion has no imposing and magnificent buildings such as those of the churches, mosques, temple, pagodas where worshippers could troop in and out to worship. This development has portrayed the religion in bad light in the eyes of the early Europeans that came to the continent.
African Traditional Religion can best be understood through oral and non-oral devices. These oral devices are still living with Africans today and are expressed mostly in proverbs, names, songs and others. The non-oral devices consist of artifacts mostly recovered from archeological excavations and some present day art works. Contrary to the beliefs of the early European visitors to the continent, Africans hold the idea that an Almighty God exists, creator of Heaven and Earth.
“Chukwudi” (There is God) is a popular name in Ibo land, South-East of Nigeria best justifies this idea. It is therefore incontrovertible that even before the coming of the Europeans Africans had clear the knowledge of the existence of God. God therefore did not come to the African continent with the Europeans. The Europeans only came with their own version of God. And the African Traditional Religion supports this fact even indisputably.
In fact what these early visitors to Africa did was to attempt to destroy the continued existence of the religion together with its values by labeling it an evil religion from the dark continent, full of savages, a religion which highly glorifies the Devil implicitly suggesting that nothing good can come out of an evil place such as Africa the land of all sorts evils and vices. Interestingly, some Africans bought this idea hook, line and sinker. Africans had always known that a true Supreme God existed.
The Europeans and other visitors to the continent did this in order to achieve their full aim of propagating religions hitherto strange to the people of the continent.
Incidentally, to a very large extent, they succeeded because of the geographical condition of the continent which rendered the understanding of the continent almost impossible, multiplicity of cultures and ethnic –nationalities in the continent also contributed to this development. It was this diverseness in the cultures of Africans that led to generalization.
However, we know today that all religions are exactly the same in terms of beliefs and ideas. All religions hold the existence of a being(s) supreme to man and the African Traditional Religion cannot be an exception
Bill Maher at his best going after religion on Scarborough Country. Making some VERY good points. www.billbone.co.uk
Religion – a way of devotion
Time has come when all the people on this earth must decide that they shall be having their religion, but they shall not allow religion to enter in their day to day life when then are dealing with people from other religions. They shall be reciting religious books of their own religion and they shall be following all the religious ceremonies, but they shall see that they are not interfering in the religious affairs of others nor they shall try to establish that their religion and its principles are better than the principles of another religion. They shall ensure that their religion is not standing in their way when they are dealing with people of other religions.
If we read and try to understand we shall come to the conclusion that life principles laid down in all the religious books of the world are telling us the same things, though in different languages and in different styles. There is nothing different in any of the religions and that is the reason, all the religions have accepted that there is one and only one God and all the people on this earth are children of the same God and therefore, though in different countries and in different form, they all are members of one and same family. they are not stranger to each other nor any religion says that it is the best religion on the earth and therefore, all the people in different religions should merge in that religion.
Since we have born in a religion and we have been brought up as per norms of that religion, we are having a right to follow those norms and principles till we are alive, there should be none on this earth who should be allowed to stop us from following our own norms. But time has come when we should try to individualize these norms to us and we may read and recite religious books of our own and we may pray as per norms prescribed, but religion should not go beyond that stage. All are our own people and therefore, when we discriminate, hate, kill or stop or convert someone to our own religion, we are not serving our religion, but we are insulting our own religion and we are actually committing a crime, a sin or a misconduct. We should live in this world as members of one family and time has come when we shall have to allow family bonds i.e. marriages between people of different religions. We shall be developing relations beyond friendship and we shall have to see that others are not feeling unsafe when they are with people of another religion.
It is very strange when people are dividing on the basis of religion and it is further strange when countries are being established on the basis of religions. We should be sorry to note that one section of people turning terrorists and the other sets of people are turning rioters. Both are killing the people who are also members of the same family.
Time has come when we should keep our religion as our individual concern and we should start thinking that no religion is in danger and no religion is having supper power and the minorities are their slaves. All are equal and we should see that this equality is maintained. We are heading toward one country and ultimately the people of the3 world shall have to unite in one country and time shall come when the people shall be having one religion and that shall be a common religion ‘humanity’ and we all shall become members of one family. That is the final goal and once that goal is achieved, this world shall become Heaven and none shall long for Heaven beyond this world.
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We should not Divide and Separate the peoples in the name of Religion because we have many religions but all the religions refer to the only one God.
Example: For the earthly life, the water is the most important one. We cannot live without water.
The water – The water is the English language.
The Paani – The Paani is the Hindi language.
The Pani – The Pani is the Sourashtra language.
The Thanni – The Thanni is the Tamil language.
The Aqua – The Aqua is the Spanish language.
The Wasser – The Wasser is the German language.
FINAL RESULT:
If the languages are different the name also differs but the absolute meaning will be the same as the water. Similarly we have many religions but all the religions refer to the only one God.
What kind of reform or present action we need in the religion?
Due to the misunderstanding in the religion so far we (the earth people) had shed so many bloods as an ocean till date. The beasts don’t have religion but the human being has the religion for his own civilization purpose. Otherwise we will become again as a beast by what? If it is true and we accept the truth of truth is
a. The religion exists only if the human being exists.
b. The religion is not a device but it is a practical procedures.
c. If a person admitted or enrolled in a medical college means at the moment he is a medical college student, after completing the course successfully he will come out with the degree of the doctor. The degree is certified by the university but after doing service to the people he is recognized by the people or by the society as doctor. This formula is same to the engineers also. Similarly if a man enters to a religion first he is the student of the religion. Now a day we are recognizing a religious man by his religious name but not by his religious perfect practice. If he practices the religious practice thoroughly and completely then only he belongs to that particular religion. The religious people must recognize the man as the religious man. This is just like the religious degree. After getting the religious degree he must come out and do service to the people as doctors and engineers. So service to the people is the religion purpose, the real spiritual purpose. We may know many religions or may follow one religion but the aim is service to the people. Here service means service to all the people not the particular religious people because the god, the Almighty is Omni potent and Omni present everywhere, every human beings, every creatures not in particular human beings or in particular creatures or in particular religion. If you realise the above facts you think yourself why still there is religious fight and blood shedding?
FINAL MANTRA:
God, Religion is to up lift all the beings.
God, Religion is to up lift all spiritual beings’ thoughts.
God, Religion is not to up lift any government body.
God, Religion is not to up lift any Political Individual.
God, Religion is to up lift the universal real peace and freedom only.
MESSAGE:
We have many religions but all the religions refer to only one God, The God for spiritual purpose and not for political purpose. God and Religion loves peace not war, then why you love war In the name of God and religion? WAR means simply against THE GOD and Religion.
You please do not use God and Religion name for money making and political purposes, use only for SPIRITUAL PURPOSE. Then there is no social crisis, no social fight and war. Only Universal real Peace and Freedom exists in ALL HEARTS
You may REALISE THIS AT ONCE, OR YOU MAY TAKE YOUR OWN TIME.
CONVERSION BY COMPULSION IS UNKNOWN TO ME; I AM THE LEAST OF LEASTS OF ALL CREATURES IN THE UNIVERSE.
- By SESHYA URPFR.ORG
What Is Religion?
Religion has existed for thousand years, but still there is no concise and even accurate definition of religion, which would reflect the nature of this phenomenon. Every person has his own understanding of religion interpreting things in a peculiar way. In the world, there are dozens contemporary religions exist, and there were dozens of “dead” religions which disappeared. Nevertheless, it does not diminish their role in general formation process.
Taking into account the nature of religion, it is possible to say that religion is a strict, unwritten code of essential rules (including morals and traditions) established by humans in order to control social life of the society.
Unity of meaning is the main source that allows the construction and experience of religion. As a collective sentiment, religion needs to be upheld and reaffirmed at regular intervals. The concept of religion is not a static one evolving during centuries. Egyptian religion or religion of Ancient Greece do not disappear, they transformed and matured, and became the core for newly developed religions such as Christianity or Catholicism. On the other hand, it is important to underline the fat that understanding of religion is also transformed as a person matured. In childhood, we believe subconsciously in superficial power of some thing beyond our understanding, in adolescence period, we deny everything being unable to join scientific knowledge about the world and unscientific knowledge on which religion is based. When we mature, we understand the limits of our science and, as the most important (if we are not skeptics), develop and coin personal interpretation and understanding of religion. This point of view can be supported by numerous example from every day life. For instance, if you ask truly Christians about the meaning of religion, all of them interpret it differently. It does not mean that they are “poor” believers, but it means that life experience and personal values have a direct impact on our understanding of religion.
I suppose that my definition of religion is a subjective one, because all people are influenced greatly by socialization processes and accident of birth. Also, people who have communicated with their god are not merely people who see new truths of which the unbeliever is ignorant; they are individuals who are stronger, feel more powerful in enduring the trials of existence, or in conquering them. I suppose that my interpretation reflects bias, because knowledge of the religion is discovered through an understanding of the whole congeries of social and communal bonds which determine character, and this in turn depends on an appreciation religious life. Nevertheless, I do not bias against any religion seeing it as a part of the process.
Seeing religion as “an identity presupposed by the unity” does not limit religion to what it has in the past allowing to apply this definition to the present. It is possible to say that the essence of religion has not been changed. Pagan religion or Hinduism share the same core structure, but expressed through different rituals. Ritual plays a crucial role here. In essence, there is little difference between different religions in their object, the results which they produce, or the processes employed to attain these results. The power of ritual dominates in religion.
I suppose that my definition of religion has a sufficient precision, because I try to be as much objective as possible. I do not account on any religion, but interpreted religion as a universal process based on “humans beliefs in abnormal phenomenon”.
To answer the question “What is religion?”, I can say that religion is a set of abstract rules for anonymous agents to live by, but consists of distributive practices, sanctioned by a tradition of behaviour, within which identifiable agents can achieve some kind of unity with a social whole that exists apart from their choices. This is a universal approach which helps to understand religion as a process free from prejudices and bias.
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I have to say, I quit my old religion because I found that religion before judgemental and very stereotyping. I used to believe in all the things my religion said, until I discover the world outside and found out that it wasn’t true. What’s worse, my religion doesn’t accomodate to do good to a certain kind of people, and be kind to someone whom that it condemns, like homosexuals, jewish, etc.
Am I wrong for quitting religion because I wanted to do good to all mankind and not being judgemental and negative stereotyping?
Religions do not unite the people
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
It must be accepted that religions could not unite the people of the world. It must be accepted that this world has been divided on the basis of religions and on the administrative side this world is divided on the basis of countries. All these divisions had been wasting the time of the people and it must be on record that most of the wars and conflicts had been there because of establishment of different religions and because of establishment of different countries. Had there been one world and had there been one religion or no religion at all the people of this world could have avoided all these wars and all these conflicts and more time and energy could have been utilized for the welfare of this man and there were chances that more inventions and discoveries could have been made by this man. And had we traveled on the right direction for these centuries, this world would become Heaven we could have seen God with naked eyes.
It must be accepted that all religions had been taking birth at different places and that had been the reason names of religions are different. We do not know much about the basic principles which were laid down at the first instance, but if today, we study the religious scriptures, we come to the conclusion that all the religions tell us the same things and there is no difference in principles of the religions. But the religions have divided the people and now we can recognize a person standing before us and we can tell to which religion this man belongs and what are his thoughts about us. We have different places of worship, different books, different thoughts, different haircut, different languages, different clothes and different way of saluting each other. And at the same time we are divided and we feel that the people in other religions are not taking any interest in our welfare. This is the tragedy with this man and now a stage has come where this man is not in a position to shed off all the religions and establish a common religion. There had been some works toward this direction, but none of the efforts could establish one religion.
The man is still going on and they are establishing different sub religions and they are successful. The people who have adopted this way to earn money, they are successful because it is very easy to collect people in these units and then snatch away money from them. People who have entered this profession are successful and have become known people and at the same time, they have collected huge amounts of money and are enjoying life like rich people and like powerful people.
At present the position is more dangerous because most of the major religions have established themselves and they are at war with each other simply because they are different. All the religions have started establishing themselves and they are constructing big buildings and are collecting all mythology around their religions. They have appointed scholars to dig out mythology and history concerning their religion and they are in competition with each other. People in one religion are telling us that they are the first in finding out real God and they are also saying that they are more powerful only because they belong to that particular religion and others are weak because they belong to another weak and false religion. People are trying to establish that people in their religion are the right persons and people in other religions are false, wrong and unreligious people.
So if the present trends go on, there are chances this world shall be divided into Muslims, Christians and Hindus and there are chances the next division of this world would be based on these three religions and there are chances that all the countries shall be merged religions-wise and there shall be three groups, three countries in the world and there are chances that there should be an upheaval as had happened when Hindustan was divided in 1947 into India and Pakistan in which 8,00,000 people had been killed and atleast 11,00,00,000 had been uprooted and migrated to unknown places. The wise people of the world should sit together and they should try to establish one religion which should be common to all and the present division on the basis of religions should go. Otherwise this world created by God shall turn Hell and we all shall suffer in it.
Understanding religion
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
We have seen that people of this world are belonging to one religion or the other and there could be very few people who do not belong to a religion. They enter into a religion when they are born because we take up the religion which is the religion of our parents or one of such parents. We are brought with those beliefs and hence these beliefs become part and parcel of our life. And we all know that very few of us change or convert to another religion. We have to live and continue in that religion and we die in that religion and ultimately our body is consigned to the end as per customs of that religion. and as per our beliefs we shall be getting Hell or Heaven as per our own deeds.
We have noted that all the religions are telling us the same principles and in spite of this fact, we could not unite in one religion. We have given names to religions and we are trying to establish that each religion is separate unit and does not match the other. We the people of this world are trying to establish that one religion is better than the other and that is the reason we had started converting people from one religion to the other only to increase the number and here we have a belief that who is converting more people to his religion is doing something in service of his own religion.
If we go deep, we shall find that all the religions on this earth are telling us the same principles and there is no difference. The names and way of living in each religion may be different and that might have been due to the reason that each religion had taken its birth at a different place and at a different time. But on the whole all are have the same beliefs.
The Hindus could be the oldest who had invented God and then they started giving powers to God and then they started praying before him. If we count and compare we shall find that God was established by Hindus, court of Dharam Raj was established by Hindus, Hindus are the first who invented institutions of Hell and Heaven, they had invented methods of devotion and worship, they started writing on the praise of God and they started the methods of prayers and worship. They are the first who started praying before God and then demanding blessing from God. The concept of charity also took its birth here in Hindustan.
And now these concepts which had been established by Hindus are available all over the world and all the people of the world are adding new concepts in their own religions only to show that they are different people and do not tally with the people of other religions and if we go deep, we shall find that there is a war going on in between the religions and if there is next world war, which has already taken its birth, shall not be between two countries, but it shall be between two religions and one religion shall try to finish the people of the other religion so that there could be peace in this world.
We shall have to accept that concepts of religions were good, but it is also on record that all the stages these people had been creating troubles for common people. Religions never allowed this man to live in peace. It is very strange that on one side we are admitting that all the religions are giving us the same guidelines, but on the other hand we all are fighting on the cause of religion and if we go deep in history, we shall find that at all the times all tyrannies had been committed in name of religion. People may be calling themselves brave, heroes of the like and on the other hand they may be counting their people as martyrs, all were not on the right path and all were based on religions. Religions never allowed one set of people to kill another set of people and if some people indulge in such killings, we should not count them as religious people and nor we should honour them as heroes because killing others is a grave sin and the man who is committing such sins shall be sent to Hell and no religion on earth shall save him from Hell. Therefore, the religions must tell their people that none should kill another though the cause may be sacred. We should honour the will of God who had sent each of us on this earth and Himself shall be calling us back and only then we should die. We are nobody to make short the period of our tenure which has been provided to us by God and if we do it we are committing crime, sin or the misconduct and we shall be punished.
If we want to be religious person, then we shall have to believe that God is one, we are His children, we all are members of one family, we are relatives of each other, we are to take care of others, we should not commit any crime, sin or misconduct against others around us, we should serve others, we should serve the child, the ill, the diseased person, the handicapped person, the old person and the man who is otherwise helpless. We should not discriminate on the basis of religions, castes, colour and creed, we should help women because they are the mothers of this mankind and we should give her a honourable place in the house. We should not indulge in scams, scandals, muddles, bribes, corruption, sale of jobs, sale of party tickets, taking in commissions and at all times we should see that we are taking our own share and we are not snatching away share of others. If we adopt these minimums only then we claim hat we are religious persons
The present look of persons is totally misleading. They are showing and presenting themselves as religious persons, though in their heart of heart they are not religious person. All who are trying to make other to understand the religious concepts, themselves are on the wrong path. they are collecting money from others and are living on those charity when they could have adopted some profession, trade, calling and employment for themselves. Preaching religion could be an additional way, but we should not earn our living from these discourses. The people who are living on charity cannot be near to God nor they shall be able to bring us near to God. They are below normal people and therefore, such people should not given respect and honour in society.
We should become a normal person who is earning his own living, earning for the administration of his family, is looking after his children, giving them proper education, is giving to his children proper training and proper adjustment in life, who is believing that God is present everywhere and is having an eye on us, we shall be punished if we are doing something wrong and we shall be awarded if we are doing something right, we should not snatch away share of others, we should not give in charity, but if need be we should help the needy and we should try to teach him how to catch a fish instead of begging a fish from others. We must try be faithful, sincere, honest towards others and we should avoid drinking, taking drugs, eating opium and we must earn through honest means. These are some minimums on the basis of which we can call ourselves as religious person. So from today, we shall try to adopt the right course in in life and people may consider us religious persons or they may not take us as religious person.
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