The previous post has been written when I was very young and not as mature in my understanding today. I'll get back in the following posts.
Always,
Rahul Swamy
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
GOD...The greatest creation by mankind
Let us take take a long journey back in time....The time when humans were a part and parcel of the nature, in harmony; where there were no wars for selfish individual needs, no inter religious conflicts, on and on. The ultimate goal in life was to survive and make their own species survive.
Let us cruise forward, to the time when Jesus Christ was born...0 AD or even 0 BC. People were much a lot civilised, but, there was no social separatism in the name of religion.
Soon later, one section of the society took inspiration from the life of Jesus and decided "Why not we follow Christ's policies and develop brotherhood among humans?" (which was Jesus's policy) and called themselves' 'Christ'ians'. Soon, thanks to the development of literature that many stories, including the puranas and epics, the Quran, came out with fleeing imaginations beyond the horizons.
Now, the remaining section of the society decided to follow their favourite character in these stories written in the so called holy books. They called themselves as the followers of any favourite character, by the name of the character or by the name of the book. And their goal was to successfuly induce brotherhood into the society.
Hence, what the author emphasises is that, all the religions, in the name of Gods, were/are merely what were been followed by the homosapiens for so long time. But the basic purpose of all the religions is to attain social unity, which were what the characters in the stories did. But the truth lying in these stories had been wrongly passed on to the next generations over the years, that the purpose of talking about 'God' in these stories is lost. A 5 year old kid fears to commit a crime because he had been told from birth that "God will curse you if you did that". But that's just a way of scaring a kid for his good.
But, the concept of God has been wrongly projected as ''Someone who lives above us'', ''Someone who created the universe'', ''Someone who'll curse us for our sins and blesses us for some good deeds'', etc. But God originated merely from the writings of man. Alternatively, there are ample number of theories for the origin of universe, life and death. Physics and Biology rules out all those tales, right from Big Bang to the death of a bacteria.
We have merely divided ourselves into religions, communities, etc for the selfish gains of a few, ultimately resulting in chaos and warfare, locally as well as globally... So, what I insist is that the reader must THINK deeply into the fact that there is no god or somebody 'existing above us'. I do not intend to 'preach' atheism but am trying to express the logic that god does not exist...
Let us cruise forward, to the time when Jesus Christ was born...0 AD or even 0 BC. People were much a lot civilised, but, there was no social separatism in the name of religion.
Soon later, one section of the society took inspiration from the life of Jesus and decided "Why not we follow Christ's policies and develop brotherhood among humans?" (which was Jesus's policy) and called themselves' 'Christ'ians'. Soon, thanks to the development of literature that many stories, including the puranas and epics, the Quran, came out with fleeing imaginations beyond the horizons.
Now, the remaining section of the society decided to follow their favourite character in these stories written in the so called holy books. They called themselves as the followers of any favourite character, by the name of the character or by the name of the book. And their goal was to successfuly induce brotherhood into the society.
Hence, what the author emphasises is that, all the religions, in the name of Gods, were/are merely what were been followed by the homosapiens for so long time. But the basic purpose of all the religions is to attain social unity, which were what the characters in the stories did. But the truth lying in these stories had been wrongly passed on to the next generations over the years, that the purpose of talking about 'God' in these stories is lost. A 5 year old kid fears to commit a crime because he had been told from birth that "God will curse you if you did that". But that's just a way of scaring a kid for his good.
But, the concept of God has been wrongly projected as ''Someone who lives above us'', ''Someone who created the universe'', ''Someone who'll curse us for our sins and blesses us for some good deeds'', etc. But God originated merely from the writings of man. Alternatively, there are ample number of theories for the origin of universe, life and death. Physics and Biology rules out all those tales, right from Big Bang to the death of a bacteria.
We have merely divided ourselves into religions, communities, etc for the selfish gains of a few, ultimately resulting in chaos and warfare, locally as well as globally... So, what I insist is that the reader must THINK deeply into the fact that there is no god or somebody 'existing above us'. I do not intend to 'preach' atheism but am trying to express the logic that god does not exist...
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