Nov 25, 2024
Nov 25, 2024
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Dear Shri Ajith Kumar, OK, there is no God. But, how shall one conduct oneself on a daily basis? Remember that Hindi song: " Bure kaam kaa buraa natijaa ...". Ethics, morality all gets entwined with religion. Religion is looking up to some force .... Believing, if I do good good will accrue to me. Similarly bad will beget bad. But, how does it happen? If religion has killed people, science to has killed people. What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was no religion there. If one reads the old testament, Jews killed millions with impunity. So, if somebody looks at misdeeds of Hitler as a visitation of the the acts of Jews during biblical times, what would one answer? Religion is a practical concept of social men. Science too is man's systematic attempt to unravel truth. Religion too is an attempt to understand birth, death and the intermediate activities of individual man in society, the goodness and the bad in human beings. Different geographic groups formulated their own mumbo jumbo in the process. What can man do? Whatever grey matter of human being could perceive, societies formulated. It will be good for humankind not to confront religion and science. Whatever man comprehends should be recorded otherwise we shall go on reinventing wheels. There should not be any confrontation between Religion and Science. |
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Religion, the way it has been and is propogated globally is just another good old business like prostitution. Mis-representation of the scriptures and induction of doubt and fear are the only means for the so called pandits, mullahs or padries to increase the quantity of their flock. Then by becoming an agent between the so called God and the common man they seek and get donations, funds. The idea simply for these institutionalised or individual priests is to become prosperous and economically successful while the gullible ignorant masses continue to be scared. Same idea has been adopted even by semi political outfits whose activities only boil down to loot and arson. The solution to this mess lies in the illiterate and poverty ridden masses to get educated and understand the basics of life and more importantly population control. |
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Those who believe in the existence of God generally argue in a circle, best example is Descartes. In the light of our scientific knowledge it is impossible to believe in a God in the traditional sense. But to say Advaita philosophy offers a rational answer is one thing but to say it is the only answer is something different. Your passionate support for Advaita is appreciated, but it smacks of a kind of fanaticism which is a great curse. Here is a Tagore poem, already published in boloji, on the subject which appears to me to be the real way to get rid of this curse. RELIGIOUS OBSESSION Who is obsessed by religion He is blind He only kills and gets killed. Even an atheist is blessed Because he doesn’t have the vanity of any faith. Humbly he lights up his reason Defies the authority of scriptures And seeks only the good of men. He who kills as infidels The followers of other faiths Dishonours his own faith He kills the son in the name of the father Busy only with the rituals He loses his reason He hoists a blood-stained flag in his temple In the name of God He worships the Devil. Those who have retained in their creed The shame of ages, the cruelties and barbarities With those rubbish They are building their own prison – I hear a bugle is blowing The bugle of universal doom With his scythe the god of destruction is coming. Planting him as a stake who comes to liberate Putting him up like a dividing wall who comes to unite Flooding the world with poison in his name Who brings love from a divine source – They drown sailing in a boat they themselves have scuttled Yet they blame someone else! I invoke you O you the supreme judge Please come to end this degeneration of religion Save those who are deluded by their faith. Your altar they have flooded with blood Please completely break it Hurl your thunder at the prison walls of faiths And bring to this cursed land The light of reason. Transcreation of the poem – Dharmamoha – from the collection Parisheshby Rabindranath Tagore.
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