ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD!!

When I was born, I did not know who GOD was. When I was a kid, I felt, I was god’s creation. When I was in my high school, I believed that god is the supreme power. When I went to the college, I thought god is the one. Now, I question my intellect if god ever existed? Was god, man’s best clandestine creation, which he chose to veil to fellow human beings?

Nobody in this world is a born theist. If no one ever said god existed, we would never have known a conceptualization called god. Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed, Buddha, Mahavira were all born as theists. None were born as gods. They were made gods, by humans. In Hindu, Greek and Egyptian mythology, gods are either human forms of nature or, amalgamation of a human and animal. In fact they weren’t born at all. They are truly a far-fetched creation of incredibly imaginative people or great artists, again humans.

Why create a god?? - Because, Rats fear cats, frogs fear snakes; deers fear tigers but man fears? God might have been created to answer this question, as there are no better living beings than the Homo sapiens. We have got the weapons, medications and knowledge to better their strengths to better any other living being.

God might have also been obligatory, when people of the so-called-higher-classes created religion. Just like a producer who wants to cast a superstar to reach more audience, because he doubts his director and script writer. A focal point, which can make the laymen believe, trust and obey whatever is being said; and hail the superstar and follow them religiously. Meanwhile, the so-called-higher-classes enjoy all the privileges and deprive it to the laymen.

When god himself did not exist, what is a religion? What was the reason a religion has to be created? - I suppose, religions were made for people to follow some rules and guidelines for their own life. But, who created it? It’s man again, the so-called-higher-classes, the so-called-privileged. Even theists would agree that religion was man’s creation. Few men who created a religion are even considered god!!! Can a man in this eon not follow a religion? It is not just improbable, it is unfeasible. Such has been the impact of religion and theology on people.

Does ever an animal think that god exists? Have you ever seen a dog pray? It might have, only because you taught your pet to do so, in your fashion, which it follows without understanding. Are they not children of god if god created everything? Why can’t they understand that their prayers will be answered? The answer is simple; they have no brains, so they created no god. They have no brains, so they understood no god. If god is the supreme power, why did he want to wait millions of years after the invention of earth and the sun; to create man with brains to appreciate the existence of him? If making people appreciating him is not his forte, why do men call themselves messengers of god?

Let us take Hinduism. Gods here are nothing but images and idols of men and women with extra features like four hands, more heads etc. which are scientifically impossible. There are deceitful stories about all gods, like Ganges flow from Ganga who resides in the head of lord Shiva, Hanuman carried a mountain etc. Then what are Glaciers? Why do so many people visit Gangothri? Is Hanuman an exception in evolution? I felt extremely flabbergasted when my fellow engineer friends truly believe that their gods exists in clouds?!?!?!??! And that too with all their ostensible relatives!!!!????!?!??

Hinduism is just a myth. I am pretty sure that Lord Ram did not construct Adam’s bridge and in no way was he responsible for the stripes on squirrel’s back. Ramayana was a great piece of fictional work taking advantage of the currently existing milieu. Just like Dan Brown did with “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons”. They are quite similar.

Adam and Eve cannot be the first persons on earth simply because there is enough scientific evidence against it. Human were born in groups as a child of evolution, and not as a couple. And the earliest ones are considered to be the Negroes. And how many of you still believe that Virgin Mary got a child from a holy spirit? This question applies to Kunthi from Mahabharata as well. They are just impeccable myths, which we safely chose not to think about. People here before ten years believed that statuettes of Lord Ganesh drinks milk!!!!!!?!?!?!?!? How preposterous?

If Monalisa was painted in the 4th or 5th Century and called god, people would have believed it to be god. If Gandhi was born 1000 years ago, he would have been worshipped as god. God was created because we needed someone to lookup to. People in 1st, 7th, 14th and even 15th century were ready to accept men as god. But, I truly doubt if people of today will accept a man to be god? But still, they opt to believe all those incongruous stories on god.

All this said and done, I still have the fear of god. I can understand; that’s not because I have a little faith left in god, but that’s because I was trained to live as a theist. It is just like many others, who have fear of heights or stage or whatever; right from their childhood or after a mishap. They are more psychological than spiritual. I still go to temples, but the frequency, significance and trust is decreasing exponentially. But, I do take pleasure in my time there, only because that’s the only place in the world, I whole heartedly wish for EVERYONE’s goodness. Because, I was TAUGHT to do so. I hope, now I can wish for everybody’s uprightness straight from my heart, without bothering what place is it! All this, NOT IN THE NAME OF GOD and religion, but in the name of HUMANITY and love.

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