"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
Some say, its the super natural power which makes the world go round, some say, he's the creator of living beings, while others say, how can we believe in something which has never been heard or seen?
Personally, i am a believer of God, coming from a country where God is served food after every couple of hours while many sleep on the footpath empty stomach for days. A country where painted statues are given more value than living humans, where a cross is said to protect you from all evils & mis-happenings & where even a mere sneeze is considered to be portent. Its not, that my way of looking at God has changed, i look up to God this way since the day i started believing in him.
A term which is often associated with God is Religion. An infant's religion is decided even before his name. Since the day a child is born, he goes through various types of religious practices, be it Thread Ceremony in Hindus or Baptization in Christians & many others. He becomes a part of the community even before he can pronounce its name.
The Super-Human's who brought religions into existence had the thought of creating world peace & keeping Humanity above all other things in mind. But nowadays, Religion has become a luxury for people, where they use it, the way they want to. People commit sins, seven days a week while pray once a month & expect everything would be, the way they want to. Abusing people around, mis-behaving with women, not respecting the old are few examples. People often forget, that one day, they too would get aged , they too might have a daughter. What you do today comes back to you sooner or later.
My friends often say, i am too religious. Just because i fast on several occasions or go to temple twice a week. i do things because i want to, not because my family says so or something like that. Though its a fact, that my dad wakes up early in the morning(usually) & the first thing he does is to have a bath & worship. But he never told me to follow him, i started doing it when i felt like doing.
God is as powerful or weak as you make him. I practice religion till the extent i find it sensible. This thinking developed in my mind when i was 16. I had a teacher in school, though she used to teach Hindi language, her thoughts on religion & its practices for me were nowhere less than those Super Humans who brought religion into existence. Unknowingly, she left a huge impact on my mind & changed the way i used to look at God. She made me see all those Holy Practices from a whole new perspective.
Just as an example, there is a ritual in Hindu's, that after attending a cremation, one should have bath as soon as he reaches home. The way people look at it is, that its just a custom being followed since ages, but she had a totally different & real view about it. It has been scientifically proven, that after a person dies, various infections & disease causing microbes leave the body. Way back million years ago, even before this discovery was made, those super humans named it as a custom keeping in mind the health of an individual.
Long back, people didn't had such thought process nor did science existed which could reason these customs. But today, it does & answers many such followings. People need to understand that there is a difference between customs & superstitions. Today, people who believe in God name superstitions also as customs & those who don't believe in God name customs also as superstitions. Taking fasting as an example, Hindu's do it as a custom on several occasions. The one's who believe in God take it as a way of pleasing the lord, while those who don't, say 'how would staying hungry please the God'?
The way i look into it, is that if some people would fast for a single day, then that day's food sale would go down(maybe in a negligible count, but it would) & maybe somewhere, a person who finds it hard to earn a meal a day might get food at a lesser cost. This is Humanism(a.k.a. Religion).
Religion were started to keep people binded together, but today, the only thing they are(rather, the one's following it as a luxury) doing is creating divide. Its better not to believe in God rather than distinguishing people on the basis of religion. We are humans first. Spread love & happiness around rather than fighting over useless issues(like the Ayodhya dispute). I don't know if God exists or not, but i am sure about one thing, that if he does, he would never want people to fight & kill each other on his name.
For me, God is the ultimate source of positive energy. A very good friend of mine & my girlfriend too, dont believe in God that much. There's nothing wrong in being an atheist. But in the end, "You got to believe in something". It can be your parents or your loved one's, because life can't be traveled alone.
For the theists, "Never give up on God, because he never gave up on you".
For the atheists, "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped hands".
-Quotes by unknown.
Some say, its the super natural power which makes the world go round, some say, he's the creator of living beings, while others say, how can we believe in something which has never been heard or seen?
Personally, i am a believer of God, coming from a country where God is served food after every couple of hours while many sleep on the footpath empty stomach for days. A country where painted statues are given more value than living humans, where a cross is said to protect you from all evils & mis-happenings & where even a mere sneeze is considered to be portent. Its not, that my way of looking at God has changed, i look up to God this way since the day i started believing in him.
A term which is often associated with God is Religion. An infant's religion is decided even before his name. Since the day a child is born, he goes through various types of religious practices, be it Thread Ceremony in Hindus or Baptization in Christians & many others. He becomes a part of the community even before he can pronounce its name.
The Super-Human's who brought religions into existence had the thought of creating world peace & keeping Humanity above all other things in mind. But nowadays, Religion has become a luxury for people, where they use it, the way they want to. People commit sins, seven days a week while pray once a month & expect everything would be, the way they want to. Abusing people around, mis-behaving with women, not respecting the old are few examples. People often forget, that one day, they too would get aged , they too might have a daughter. What you do today comes back to you sooner or later.
My friends often say, i am too religious. Just because i fast on several occasions or go to temple twice a week. i do things because i want to, not because my family says so or something like that. Though its a fact, that my dad wakes up early in the morning(usually) & the first thing he does is to have a bath & worship. But he never told me to follow him, i started doing it when i felt like doing.
God is as powerful or weak as you make him. I practice religion till the extent i find it sensible. This thinking developed in my mind when i was 16. I had a teacher in school, though she used to teach Hindi language, her thoughts on religion & its practices for me were nowhere less than those Super Humans who brought religion into existence. Unknowingly, she left a huge impact on my mind & changed the way i used to look at God. She made me see all those Holy Practices from a whole new perspective.
Just as an example, there is a ritual in Hindu's, that after attending a cremation, one should have bath as soon as he reaches home. The way people look at it is, that its just a custom being followed since ages, but she had a totally different & real view about it. It has been scientifically proven, that after a person dies, various infections & disease causing microbes leave the body. Way back million years ago, even before this discovery was made, those super humans named it as a custom keeping in mind the health of an individual.
Long back, people didn't had such thought process nor did science existed which could reason these customs. But today, it does & answers many such followings. People need to understand that there is a difference between customs & superstitions. Today, people who believe in God name superstitions also as customs & those who don't believe in God name customs also as superstitions. Taking fasting as an example, Hindu's do it as a custom on several occasions. The one's who believe in God take it as a way of pleasing the lord, while those who don't, say 'how would staying hungry please the God'?
The way i look into it, is that if some people would fast for a single day, then that day's food sale would go down(maybe in a negligible count, but it would) & maybe somewhere, a person who finds it hard to earn a meal a day might get food at a lesser cost. This is Humanism(a.k.a. Religion).
Religion were started to keep people binded together, but today, the only thing they are(rather, the one's following it as a luxury) doing is creating divide. Its better not to believe in God rather than distinguishing people on the basis of religion. We are humans first. Spread love & happiness around rather than fighting over useless issues(like the Ayodhya dispute). I don't know if God exists or not, but i am sure about one thing, that if he does, he would never want people to fight & kill each other on his name.
For me, God is the ultimate source of positive energy. A very good friend of mine & my girlfriend too, dont believe in God that much. There's nothing wrong in being an atheist. But in the end, "You got to believe in something". It can be your parents or your loved one's, because life can't be traveled alone.
For the theists, "Never give up on God, because he never gave up on you".
For the atheists, "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped hands".
-Quotes by unknown.
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