You Don't Mess With The Religion

After a couple of months and my finals, a new post, finally! 

Many people might make a big mistake interpreting my content. They might think I don’t believe in any or all gods, and the religion that follows as well. Well that that’s not quite true.

I see religion as just a method to make people believe in the kind of events beyond their ability to understand. In the past, as we all might have pondered in our free time, humans were not as smart as they are today. They were not able to grasp the science or reasoning behind events. They couldn’t understand what is really right as a human being, and what is not. They couldn’t perceive the actual philosophy of life, and with these values, human was nothing beside another species of animals. So, to guide them to the right path, the 'concept' of religion was brought up. People were taught what was right as a human, and how and why things happened. Religion showed people the way of life, the philosophy of life. That, was the basis of all religions, the root of all religions.

But the religions that we see in today's world, or the 'surface religions', are more oriented to today's world, like the media, money, etc. People use religion for their own selfish purposes, for gaining money and fame. Media uses religion as a medium of introducing terror in people when a catastrophe strikes. Nowadays, people claiming to be saints tell you that there are evil spirits, and that how harmful they are to your normal lives. Then they say that they can drive these spirits away, bringing brightness to your minds, and literally 'charge' you for doing so in the form of donations. They demand various kinds of stuff, some that might not even be easily available, and the official raise in their financial status doesn’t even count here.

Religion is something we have very well embedded in with God. But if you look closely, you can see that God just enforces the ways of religion by showing how an Almighty tells you to follow religion, and frankly, He tells you that if you don’t walk on the ways shown by religion, your life will be full of evil deeds, or you would have performed what are known as 'sins'. There's also an explanation as to why this was done, and a rather simple one it is. Science has bases, Religion doesn’t. Though religion teaches us the real ways of life, it's just that there is no base as to why it is right. That is why it feels difficult to understand the real value of religion once one starts believing in God, because then he/she starts focusing on what is wrong and tries avoiding it, rather than seeing what is right and following it. I know this sounds almost the same, but it is almost totally different.

So, it is not religion that I am against, because I have seen its true value; I know how brilliantly it has been formulated. It is only the enforcement that ‘ignites my fury’. I don’t believe in God, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe in religion as well. It's just that I can't believe in today's version of religion which is better for today's world, or rather 'Religion 2.0'.

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte