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Religions keep us away from God

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate

There might have been a time when some people established religions to show this man the path which would lead him towards God. The man could not reach God, but on the other hand this man had been divided into different religions, had started fighting in name of religion and it is on record that this man is now a divided lot and they have got no unity amongst themselves. They are Hindus, they are Muslims, they are Sikhs, they are Christians or the like and if we start counting sub religions, then we shall have to consume so many note books for this purpose. The man started to reach God through these religions and through these sub religions and he is still showing that he is on the path. But centuries have passed and this man is still not near to God.

In all the religious books, we have been told that God is one and one only, but only this concept contained in all the religious books could not be adopted by this man. If he admits this concept, that is an artificial admission. In reality, this man is divided only in name of God and that is the reason all the religions have given God different names and they are not accepting that one God is equal to the other God. They are divided in names of religions and in names of Gods and they are preparing for a next world war in which religions shall fight and they shall try to finish religions.

The people of the world have reached a stage where they shall have to pray before God that He should send another person on this earth who should abolish all the religions on this earth and should establish one and only one religion so that the divisions which had been made in this world should be abolished and this man could be united as one force on this earth. And till these divisions on the basis of religions are there, this man would never unite and till he unites, there shall be no peace and till peace is not there, this man shall consume most of his time, resources, energy for preparation of war heads and those energies shall never be utilized for the welfare of this man. If we have a deep look on the present circumstances, we shall come to the conclusion that one set of people are turning terrorists, as other set of people are turning rioters and another set of people are preparing themselves for attacking the terrorists and the rioters with the forces of arms in their hands. It seems that this man is living last days of his life on this earth and we shall be destroying everything on this earth and we shall compel this earth to give birth to the man once again and that man shall have to start from the very beginning.

It seems that even the people and scholars who are trained in religions and who claim that they know everything contained in their religious books, they must come forward and must tell the people true meaning of religion and they must tell the people that all the religious books and all the religions are telling us the same things and therefore, there is only one and only one religion on this earth and that is humanity. No man should be allowed to say that he belongs to a particular religion. In all the records maintained, this man should be declared as a human being and he should stop calling himself as a Hindu, as a Christian, as Sikh, as a Muslim or the like. The scholars should sit and prepare one religious books for all the people which should be so simple that everyone could understand the contents and they should not need people who should sit and collect them for explaining the texts. The religious book should be translated in all the languages so that the contents could be understood by all and not concentrated to a few. The religion must play right role and that is possible. The people who had been telling us the contents of religious books had been misleading us and today they have brought us at a very dangerous place where we are ready to die and kill people of other religions. This is bad and time is there when we should see our mistakes and we must correct our mistakes without any further loss of time.

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Changing the course of religions.

Time has come when all the religions should change the course and style they had been following since centuries. All the religions should start having concentration on the man and the follower and not on buildings, premises, employing people, giving them food and pay and distributing free food. The religious places should be simple and intellectuals should be allowed to deliver discourses and no man who is not having any qualification should be allowed to sit their become owner of that religious place and convert that institution into a commercial concern.

Time has come when all the religions should start working like missions and they should start to locate people of their religions who need help. they must start from the children and they must try to locate all those children who are not going to school, then to training institution and they are facing some hardship in locating a work from where they could carry sufficient wages or income with which they could be establish a family and then run that family.

No religious institution should run schools, colleges or training institutions. this work should remain with the state or with people in the field who could afford running such institutions. The people in religions, if they could collect funds from the devotees, they must spend those funds on locating children of their religion and they must see that those children are properly looked after and made a reasonable citizen of the country. The religions should not try to locate God who is already present everywhere and that is the reason, we are calling God as Omnipotent and Omnipresent. When God is Omnipresent, then there is not necessity of locating Him. We should try to meet God through the man and child is the best person who should be upgraded and should be allowed to grow a suitable person and a suitable person is who has got proper education, proper training and is at work of his choice from where he is bringing proper wages, income and salary with which he should be able to run his family administration well. the people in religions, if they fail to look after these helpless children, they are not serving God nor they are serving their own religion.

In most of the countries states have failed to look after each child who is helpless and whose parents are not looking after him and they are obliged to deploy him to work as a domestic servant, as a beggar, as a child collecting valuables from the garbage, are obliged to send him to workshop or to a hotel or to a tea shop where he is working and getting wages. This childhood shall create persons who shall be dangerous to the society in which they shall live and the people in the society shall be suffering because of these children. Therefore, each religion must realize that they are not on the right path. Religions should not believe in buildings, langar(free kitchen and boarding and lodging), but they must try to improve the lot of children of people in their religions because most of the states have failed and they are just giving out false promises of all and doing nothing on this side. And that is the reason that in most of the developing countries, the lot of children from the poor families is not worth explanation. The people in religions must start thinking on these lines and that shall be the only course through which they shall be serving the people in their religions and once this course is adopted in all the religions, we shall be establishing good people and most of crimes, sins and misconducts shall be written off from the penal books. The people who are running any religion shall be happy to go to God and they shall be properly treated by God because they had done something which is the true religion. All present shows are not religions but they are talking above the heads of people in their religions and that is the reason none could be converted into a religious person.

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The video for Ziggy’s song, “Love is My Religion”

Ali G talks to a group about Religion

I thought religion created good morals? LOL!

My question as stated above is how does religion and democracy play a role in the United States today. What I mean by this is how do they go “hand in hand” and make an effect on society today? One example I have is by the first ammendent. Freedom of religion, democracy is what gives us the freedom of religion. If you can think of any other topics on this subject that would be great.

There was once a time, when magickal beings started appearing on earth; wise ones who knew that since they came from nature and would return to nature it was urgent that they didn’t affect the delicate balance of all that constituted our environment on this paradise. They revered the land, the seasons, celebrated the Sun and the Moon and held all animals sacred to their hearts.

As civilizations grew and selfishness and greed enveloped the world, wars and destruction became common and human beings found weapons to kill each other and thought of themselves as civilized and advanced societies. They created new religions and almost destroyed the old magickal cultures.

Deep in their hearts, some of these beings still held on to old beliefs and traditions which were the secret to the survival of our universe. These religions were called “pagan religions” by the ignorant warlords who used the new religions to conquer and destroy magickal people they called “savages” and “heathens”. They also tried to kill and burn people who did not believe in these new religions and called them Satanic or evil to incite the common people to destroy them.

Further, they came up with the idea of “Hell” where people would go to, if they did not believe in these new religions.

However, magick always prevails. In spite of the greed and ignorance of these so called “advanced” religions, some of the wiser, gentler, nature worshipping religions survived. They didn’t bomb each other, they didn’t create havoc and they didn’t pollute the world. They respected the environment, taking only enough, leaving plenty for others and never breaking the laws of nature.

Wicca is one of those nature loving religions that was practiced in Northern Europe before the advent of the middle-eastern Judeo-Christian religions and is now on its way to a revival in many parts of the world.

The Wiccans celebrate the cycles of nature and the four seasons, the Sunrise and Sunset as well as the phases of the Moon. They worship the Female Goddess as well as the Male God, and believe that all of us have the power of the cosmic energy that created us. “Wicca” is the old English term for witch. All ancient religions practiced some form of magick. Most of the witches worshipped nature and looked upon all creation as sacred.

Unlike some of the other religions which accept a male God and give up everything to HIS will, Wiccans believe that the Goddess and God are divine powers WHO guide us in our search for spiritual harmony and our urge to CREATE.

Nature had to take a backseat to wars and politics while fundamentalists attacked each other with bombs and chemical weapons to manipulate nature for selfish purposes. The answer to this catastrophic behavior is simple – to return to a peaceful, nature loving way of life.

Natural religions are being accepted back into cultures as a response to the tremendous damage done by modern religions on the earth’s resources and environment. Wicca seems to be one of the answers to such a dilemma.

Anyone can join the Wiccan religion. Although there are groups of Wiccans (covens) that make rules and initiate others into this religion, there are no basic requirements to join this religion other than a yearning to live a life of peace and joy in harmony with nature.

Anyone wishing to join the Wicca religion can read and study its history, principles and practice, perform the self-initiation ceremony and start practicing the religion immediately.

Wiccans usually have certain objects that are used for rituals and spells. To increase concentration, objects such as candles, incense, large pots (cauldrons), cups (chalice) and natural treasures such as sticks, stones, wood, etc are used. The symbol of a 5 pointed star, called a pentagram is especially significant to this religion and is used in rituals and ceremonies. To emphasize the importance of these ceremonies, Wiccans use ceremonial robes and wands. There are many books and websites on the Wiccan tools and sacred objects used in rituals.

Wiccans believe that whatever we do in life, whether it has a positive or negative outcome, we get it back three-fold. This is sometimes called the Threefold Law. Because of this belief, Wiccans always think before doing harm to anyone.

Magick is the method of directing energy that is around us to produce a pre-determined outcome. Magick is a command that is directed to the world with the expectation of immediate action. It’s a reinforcement of an expected outcome, without a hint of a doubt that it may not happen. Magick not a plea to an all powerful God, it’s a command to the divine Goddess of nature who is always ready to make it happen.

Tis the witching hour of night,

Orbed is the moon and bright,

And the stars they glisten, glisten,

Seeming with bright eyes to listen

For what listen they?

John Keats (1795 – 1821)

Wicca is a healing tradition that is based on the love of the Earth. Herbs and healing crystals as well as stones are usually used in rituals. The more they practice the religion, the better they get at understanding how spirituality can restore the world. Wiccans can help heal people with herbal remedies and other holistic healing methods such as Reiki and Meditation.

Clip from Dress to Kill

There is no denying the fact that ‘Faith integrated upon a religion may perhaps be idiosyncratic conviction in a god or gods’ which exist in the sore traditional activity of human being as one is supposed to activate one’s perpetual faith by continuous supplication as a tentative flow. Some religions have many gods; some have only one and even some religions are theistic; others are not, even though these are popular and remarkable traditionally in some particular regions. In India, Bangladesh, China, and Nepal and even in Great Britain, such theistic people’s religions are found out.
Suffice it to say that Faith developed upon a religion is the reverse of a faith interacted upon a creed, which is acceptable that there is no god. Biblical faith interacted upon a religion is the code in the Judeo-Christian God, i.e., the God presented in the Bible and ever since, Biblical faith interacted upon a religion covers countless subtopics. A cram of the God of the Bible will inevitably center attention on the Godhead, self-assured of the Father, Son, and hallowed Spirit. It exchanges a few words to the nature and characteristic of God, the pre-existence and deity of Christ, the person and modus operandi of the Holy Spirit, and a host of other subcategories. For reserve information about biblical faith interacted upon a religion, we can find many important criteria in this universe. Our secular and humanistic society now generally rejects biblical faith interacted upon a religion; although a majority in our society may articulate in the sense that they accept as true in the God of the Bible, they also pass their remark in the way that their belief in God has little to do with the technique as they conduct their lives to give as good as you get their day to day situations. Institutions of big business, governments, commerce, industry, and education operate more by secular and humanistic principles than by principles of biblical faith interacted upon a religion. For information on the subject of humanistic philosophies contrasting to biblical faith interrelated upon a religion, we can face Philosophical faith interacted upon a religion of Humanism expressed in terms of communism of equal rights to establish uniformity in respect of castes and creeds.
There is no denying the fact that we’re in a Cultural War and even it’s a spiritual war too to retaliate our real life situation. It’s a philosophical war in the sense that it’s a very practical war. This is a spiritual war for the reason that it is a race between high-quality and malevolence, between decency and indulgence. This is a philosophical war because it is a contest between biblical faith interacted upon a religion and modern humanism, between God’s word and human judgment. This is a practical war because it is about human conduct in social and cultural practices. It’s about whether a society can abide if it tolerates such things as abortion, divorce, gambling, pornography, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, etc. To win this war, theists must be well-versed about the truth-seeking foundations of both sides, about goals and objectives, about strategies and tactics, and about how to be actively complicated in this conflict. For theists, the philosophical nitty-gritty of this war is set forth in scripture. For humanists, the philosophical brass tacks are from human reasoning as declared in humanistic books and documents. Because theists are generally not familiar with the writings of humanists, theists generally do not understand why we are in a cultural war and that humanists are at this time captivating this war. This war is being fought in many arenas – ethics, financial side, schooling, law, politics, religion, etc. Activists are to be found on the streets, in public school classrooms, at workplaces, in churches, and in the halls of civil governments.
This is an inquiring feeling whether we are involved or not in regard to the ethical prospects of life which predominates a man to seek truth which are vitally desired for spiritual as well as eternal life. Theists are generally active in churches and homes, but the humanistic philosophy of secularism has now generally barred faith cooperated upon a religion from workplaces, educational classrooms, and the halls of civil governments. The only way for theists to stop this rising humanistic way of life and its disparaging morally wrong charged is for well-versed theists to confront the philosophy of humanism with the attitude of faith intermingle upon a religion in every arena of life. To put in the picture to others if we have the same opinion that these matters are worthy of greater absorption and that they impress to be squabbled more fully among Christians. AIK is a new probabilistic argument alongside the continuation of the Christian God. According to one translation of the argument, if the Christian God existed he would ensure that all human beings have an excellent knowledge of the Bible before they die. But, as a matter of chronological fact, most human beings do not even get close to having an excellent knowledge of the Bible before they die. Therefore, the Christian God probably doesn’t exist. Ted Drange develops two arguments for the nonexistence of the God of evangelical Christianity, an all-powerful and loving being greatly concerned about the fate of human beings and desiring a personal liaison with them. According to his argument from confusion, extensive puzzlement stuck between Christians over matters of ultimate consequence entailed that the God of evangelical Christianity in all probability does not exist. In particular, the uncontrolled diversification of Christian sects on such matters entails that, even if any one of those sects is correct, large numbers of Christians must hold false beliefs about concern of eventual importance–contrary to what one would predict if the God of evangelical Christianity existed. The argument from biblical imperfection contends that if the God of evangelical Christianity existed, then the Bible would probably be flawlessly comprehensible and trustworthy and lacking marks of solely human authorship; but since the Bible does not meet either of these criteria, the God of evangelical Christianity probably does not exist.
“Set apart this stipulation, beloved Lord,” George Fox and Phil Smith had articulated sympathetically into the microphone, “and shortcoming will we seize delivery of it in the spirit in which some one gave it to some body.” They are being university professors self-confident about their faiths and achievements stated that the Christians seated around the banquet tables in the large student union had their heads bowed reverently while the nonbelievers, lost in their own thoughts, waited patiently for the thanksgiving prayer to finish. Their eyes were closed up tight, his squint embellished by his chunky glasses. When he had completed his supplication, a choral group of deep “amen’s” echoed from induction to end the large hall. Now that the food had been hallowed, the attendees at the Society of Philosophers were ready to march up to the buffet table and eagerly partake of their fair share. Here, among theist and agnostic thinkers from all parts of the globe, opportunist philosophical arguments and debates would begin to take shape. Amidst the clank of utensil on plate after everyone had been dished up their food, tête-à-tête hastily crooked back to idealistic talk of space and time, the veridicality of credence in God, Darwinian point of view from malevolence, and whether or not so and so will as a final point stop working from training relevant to the particular time frame.. Somewhere off in a corner an apprentice participated a heavy-eyed piece of music on a majestic piano. At one table, Peter Forrest hailing from Australia resumed a topic near and dear to his heart: the disambiguation of time. “The transcendentalist doesn’t in fact get higher,” he asserted while holding his hand out flat and unhurriedly raising it up to impersonate the yogi’s feat. “Instead,” Forrest unremitting, “he loses the differentiation connecting the typical means of access of time and the submissive sequential order in which the flow of time seems to slow to a crawl.” A graduate student next to him who had been carefully listening frowned. Forrest seemed energized by this skepticism and his grin spread wider on his face while his brown tangled hair bounced wildly. Clearly, Forrest was happiest when the subject gravitated toward A- and B-theories of time and whether or not time passes in discrete units or was rather like Plato’s “moving image of eternity.”
Subsequently, all and sundry had earnestly frenzied the baked salmon and cheesecake, Paul K. Moser, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, discharged the keynote address. However, to his shame he initiated that one thing kept distracting him from his interesting presentation. No matter how hard I tried to ignore it, he couldn’t help but notice that Moser bore a striking resemblance to the popular portrayals of Jesus Christ. From his shoulder-length brown hair, to his sparkling eyes, long thin nose, and carefully trimmed beard, I would have believed the chef were he to tell me that Moser himself divided just two salmon into two hundred for our banquet that night. Moser’s talk was passionate and he was obviously in command of his material. He argued that to seek propositional belief that God exists was tantamount to idolatry because it seeks the knowledge of God rather than a relationship with God. “For our own good,” Moser said, “we are not in charge of God or of available evidence for God. We must know God as Reconciling Lord of our lives, given God’s redemptive program.”
Thus, a proper epistemology, Moser insisted, is one that hunt for a relationship with the redeeming God of Israel rather than one that seeks justified true belief that God exists. To seek mere existence of God, Moser said, is to trivialize God and to put God into human terms. Only when one is properly oriented toward God can one see that life is a gift. Then one can behave accordingly with “self-giving trust, gratitude, and humility” toward God. The atheist, Moser pronounced, sees the universe as an accidental fluke; therefore, he responds to the universe with “self-protecting control, self-crediting, fear, striving, and pride.” While the atheist experiences “despair, pessimism, anxiety, and worry,” Moser argued, the Christian experiences “hope, optimism, mercy, and forgiveness.” Moser called the proper view of God an “epistemology of Gethsemane” which is to say, “not my will but Thy Will.” opportunity the conference’s First Plenary Session on Thursday morning, Professor Paul Draper, Florida International University delivered a paper entitled “Seeking but not Believing: Confessions of a Practicing Agnostic.” “I’ve got to warn you guys,” Draper had told us shortly ahead of time, “the paper I’m about to give will appeal greatly to the theists.” Draper did not disappoint. Before his talk began, he asked everyone to pray for Brian Leftow, who had been scheduled to deliver a paper but was too ill to attend the conference. In his presentation, Draper squabbled that he was a fence sitter because the verification both for and against naturalism and faith acted together upon a religion was evenly divided. Draper used the analogy of red and blue jelly beans to illustrate the evidence that came to bear on the problem of naturalism versus faith collaborated upon a religion. A red bean symbolized a piece of confirmation in favor of naturalism while a blue bean represented an argument that seemed to weigh in favor of faith intermingled upon a religion. With a total of five red beans and five blue beans, Draper was undecided about the issue and remarked that he needed more time to weigh all of the arguments. “I’m waiting, indeed hoping, to be pulled over to one side,” he confessed. Draper’s honesty seemed to set the right tone for the conference. While both theists and atheists alike would fervently disagree, everyone had the utmost respect for opposing points of view. During the break, Phil Fernandez, an evangelical Christian minister who described himself as coming from the Van Tillman school of thought, recognized Jeff and walked up to say hello. “Still in the Infidel business?” he asked with a grin. “What else?” Jeff replied. Fernandez was an easygoing beneficiary, stocky and athletic, speedy with a smile and possessing an engaging personality. After introducing him to Theodore Drange, Jeff introduced Fernandes to me. “Oh yeah, you’re the guy who wrote a bad review of my book,” Fernandes said slowly while forcefully gripping my hand. I quickly tried to recall what his book was about and what I had said but my mind went blank. “I hope it wasn’t too awful,” I accessible in retort. “Well,” he said, “some of my colleagues were pretty upset by what you wrote but I wasn’t bothered by it too much.” We were late for the second plenary gathering so we speedily enveloped up our introductions. William Lane Craig, from the Talbot School of Theology, was going to speak on naturalism, cosmology, and present his trademark kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God.

In view of the above it is evident that religion leads humans how to lead life controlled and cleanly and from such concepts, supplication for the sake of almighty has been dedicated and it is inevitable to hold faith in running day to day activities of life. We are habituated to deal life selfishly in order to achieve maximum interest in life. But the true religion teaches mankind how to achieve purity of life. Purity signifies humans real equity, justice, humanity and trustworthy of life. Real belief is quite different phenomena with which one can reach the reality of creation. In the whole world, all sorts of crisis are prevailing on a large scale such as crisis of food; shelter and clothing are nowadays a dominant issue. In the language of Economics, our hierarchical needs are physiological, safety, security, egoistic and self actuality needs which play a vital part to be satisfied as one’s birth right against scarcity, choice and opportunity cost. Due to the fact, no one is satisfied in the world whatever they posses in the eternal world. For this reason, unrest movement against economy, commerce and trade are predominating and every one runs after momentary happy. Hence, in order to bring a peaceful world, the importance of religion in men’s life cannot be ignored. Hence, our duty towards mankind is great and compulsory but we forget and eternity becomes the mainstream of life. We should be careful about the rights of humans and whatever we posses, we should utilize them in a systematic manner. In this context, a few lines of poem composed by Robert Frost is worth mentioning:
“The wood is lovely, dark and deep
I have promises to keep
And I have miles to go before I sleep
And I have miles to go before I sleep”