Saturday, January 05, 2008

Religion

Like we cannot change our parents, we cannot change our religion. there are somethings we are born with and there are somethings we create for which we stand for the rest of our lives and which form a 'join the dots' scenario which shapes our lives. The things we are born with is Family, society, religion and what we create is a character and principles.

Religion is nothing but a set of rules according to which we conduct our lives and the definition of which might vary from country to country and society to society. By this I mean that all the religions are equally relevant to each individual. Just because one person thinks that his religion is better than that of other one is totally defying and denouncing his own religion.

Religion should be personal. We should not wear our religion on your sleeve but try to understand and after you do, it can give us a sense of identity and security.

The greatest enemy of us is the kind of mob behavior among the people of today as a society who are impressionable, easily duped and begging to be a pawn in some other's hands but still independent to choose a representative who has a despotic power to run a country as they like.

We think about religion as we think is just because of some politicians and religious leaders who have not done their jobs but to feed our minds with baseless propaganda which has made OUR thinking a slave of their personal gain.

Evolution or not, it happened millions of years ago.. so to me, it is of no consequence. whats important is the fact that the way of living, culture, tradition comes from religion. We should be proud of the religion while not hating the other religions because that is the other person's choice. And thats what a modern society is all about. Live and let live.

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