Religion is not something you believe or not. It's a set of rules to follow for a better living. Unfortunately, most of the known religions are based on the concept of God just to implement the rules effectively. Over the time, people glorified the concept of God with superficial rituals burying the core rules for a better living. Typical core rules of most of the religions are:
1. There is a creator of the universe called God.
2. Don’t kill or hurt anyone.
3. Marriage is a holy bonding and don’t commit adultery.
4. Don’t lie.
5. Help the needy people.
All these core rules makes proper sense for us to have a civilized society (except for the first one). The people who were instrumental in forming these religions were intellectuals with probably good intentions of building a better society. They knew the truth that they needed an imaginary superpower concept called God to make the people follow the rules. Otherwise, people don’t have any incentives to follow these founder’s advice. So, the good intellectuals used the concept of God which was elegant to build a better society in which people doesn’t kill each other for personal benefits.
In comparison, the Constitution of India can be treated as a book of religion for the citizens of India. It's not whether you believe or not in the Constitution of India, you got to follow it if you want to be in India. The Government including Judiciary is the care-taker of the Constitution to preach and enforce it. Similarly, the religions also nominated some people to preach and spread the religion. The Constitution of India which was written 60 years back was a great effort to put the rules together. Nevertheless, it's good to amend (modify) it time to time to tune the rules and make it better. Similarly, religions like Hinduism and Christianity were formed many centuries ago and the intellectuals who are instrumental in forming these set of rules have done a great job. Christianity was formed out of an amendment to the old testament, which is still followed by Jews. Hinduism might have amended a few times in its early times. Later, the people stopped amending them because they lost the clue of how and why they were actually made and strongly believed that they were made by the God and hence should not be amended by people. Somehow, the God which was used as an instrument to implement the religions has become the obstacle of its evolution.
I guess, this dead-end to the evolution of the religions has led to the formation of Constitutions/Governments like Democracy, Socialism and Communism. My comparison of the democratic Constitution of India as a religion is not incidental, that’s how a religion looks like if it’s designed today. The rules of a modern religions say, if you kill people around you, it’s not God but we’ve system in place to punish you. These are evolving unlike the religions. These forms of Constitutions are new age religions and the old age religions are still carried on as a legacy. I think these old age religions are obsolete and hence we should all stop following them.
Why do I say the older religions are obsolete? Don’t you see they are no more a reason for a better living and are often the reason for violence. Also, false concept of God has suppressed the values which were originally intended for. Just because we don’t know how exactly our universe is made and the phenomenal size of it, don’t make false assumptions of superpower called God. And, these religions are not improved/amended for tens of centuries.
People are generally excited about miracles. That's human psychology. The concept of God is an easy way to fulfill those imaginations. It’s easy to tell a kid that there is someone up there watching everything you do, so don’t do anything wrong. It reminds me of a short story. A kid who goes to a school in a neighboring village comes home after evening when it’s pitch dark on his way. He’s naturally is very scared. So, his mom tells him that ask for help of the God to look after you in such situations. Next time around, the kid starts chanting his favorite God’s name asking the God to come with him. Because the kid has diverted his attention to something else and also he’s imagining the God is with him, he’s psychologically secure and walks without fear. This ends the moral story. Here, all that’s God is imaginary, but it works for him. The imagination has helped the kid to come out of fear. But in reality, the things haven’t changed, the kid is still walking alone. The original fear of the kid is, if some thief catches him in the lonely place, he’ll be robbed. The situation hasn’t changed. If a thief finds the kid, he’ll still be robbed. The concept of God helps kids to stop unnecessary fear and also from doing bad things when no else is watching. Ignorance of the kid helps to solve the problem. Ignorance is bliss!
The points I want to stress are
1. The concept of God is imaginary and is entirely in your mind.
2. The religions are rules for a better living, but are not updated with time and hence they are all obsolete. So, stop following the obsolete rules.
3. Use your mind and take the good rules from the Religion and add them to the Constitution of your country so that you are doing your bit to make a better society around you.
Think about it!
Regards,
Channa Bankapur
1. There is a creator of the universe called God.
2. Don’t kill or hurt anyone.
3. Marriage is a holy bonding and don’t commit adultery.
4. Don’t lie.
5. Help the needy people.
All these core rules makes proper sense for us to have a civilized society (except for the first one). The people who were instrumental in forming these religions were intellectuals with probably good intentions of building a better society. They knew the truth that they needed an imaginary superpower concept called God to make the people follow the rules. Otherwise, people don’t have any incentives to follow these founder’s advice. So, the good intellectuals used the concept of God which was elegant to build a better society in which people doesn’t kill each other for personal benefits.
In comparison, the Constitution of India can be treated as a book of religion for the citizens of India. It's not whether you believe or not in the Constitution of India, you got to follow it if you want to be in India. The Government including Judiciary is the care-taker of the Constitution to preach and enforce it. Similarly, the religions also nominated some people to preach and spread the religion. The Constitution of India which was written 60 years back was a great effort to put the rules together. Nevertheless, it's good to amend (modify) it time to time to tune the rules and make it better. Similarly, religions like Hinduism and Christianity were formed many centuries ago and the intellectuals who are instrumental in forming these set of rules have done a great job. Christianity was formed out of an amendment to the old testament, which is still followed by Jews. Hinduism might have amended a few times in its early times. Later, the people stopped amending them because they lost the clue of how and why they were actually made and strongly believed that they were made by the God and hence should not be amended by people. Somehow, the God which was used as an instrument to implement the religions has become the obstacle of its evolution.
I guess, this dead-end to the evolution of the religions has led to the formation of Constitutions/Governments like Democracy, Socialism and Communism. My comparison of the democratic Constitution of India as a religion is not incidental, that’s how a religion looks like if it’s designed today. The rules of a modern religions say, if you kill people around you, it’s not God but we’ve system in place to punish you. These are evolving unlike the religions. These forms of Constitutions are new age religions and the old age religions are still carried on as a legacy. I think these old age religions are obsolete and hence we should all stop following them.
Why do I say the older religions are obsolete? Don’t you see they are no more a reason for a better living and are often the reason for violence. Also, false concept of God has suppressed the values which were originally intended for. Just because we don’t know how exactly our universe is made and the phenomenal size of it, don’t make false assumptions of superpower called God. And, these religions are not improved/amended for tens of centuries.
People are generally excited about miracles. That's human psychology. The concept of God is an easy way to fulfill those imaginations. It’s easy to tell a kid that there is someone up there watching everything you do, so don’t do anything wrong. It reminds me of a short story. A kid who goes to a school in a neighboring village comes home after evening when it’s pitch dark on his way. He’s naturally is very scared. So, his mom tells him that ask for help of the God to look after you in such situations. Next time around, the kid starts chanting his favorite God’s name asking the God to come with him. Because the kid has diverted his attention to something else and also he’s imagining the God is with him, he’s psychologically secure and walks without fear. This ends the moral story. Here, all that’s God is imaginary, but it works for him. The imagination has helped the kid to come out of fear. But in reality, the things haven’t changed, the kid is still walking alone. The original fear of the kid is, if some thief catches him in the lonely place, he’ll be robbed. The situation hasn’t changed. If a thief finds the kid, he’ll still be robbed. The concept of God helps kids to stop unnecessary fear and also from doing bad things when no else is watching. Ignorance of the kid helps to solve the problem. Ignorance is bliss!
The points I want to stress are
1. The concept of God is imaginary and is entirely in your mind.
2. The religions are rules for a better living, but are not updated with time and hence they are all obsolete. So, stop following the obsolete rules.
3. Use your mind and take the good rules from the Religion and add them to the Constitution of your country so that you are doing your bit to make a better society around you.
Think about it!
Regards,
Channa Bankapur
