I
believed in Santa Claus once, but with time and experience I learnt that Santa
doesn’t exist. I was taught about God and Religion, but now I know this isn't a
God-created-world. Man has created God.
The
amount of evil and suffering in this world is beyond all contemplation. How
could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much evil? Why would a
perfect God create faulty humans? Why would he then punish humans for the
faults he himself gave them? Why are thousands dying everyday of starvation?
Why crimes still prevail in a world that is created and run by God himself?
Well, why would a perfect God create a world in the first place?!
If
God exists, He is omniscient. And if this is true, doesn’t he know that he is
immortal when he takes birth in human form (Jesus, Ram)? And if he is immortal,
how does whatever happened to him can be called a sacrifice? You know what will
happen to you, you want it happen to you, you make it happen to you and you know
whatever happens can do no harm to your immortality. Then, how exactly is it
sacrifice (Jesus' crucified, Ram's suffering)?
If
at all there is anyone who should be looked upon as God, he would be among us
mortals. If at all there is someone who deserves to be worshipped, it would be
someone who has done something significant for human race or his country than
just writing Geeta or Quran or Bible. And in that sense, Oskar Schindler is
God. Abraham Lincoln is God. Bhagat Singh is God. Mohammed Hossein Fahmideh is
God. William Wallace is God. Defence Forces are God. And trust me, we can do
with crores of such
Gods but
not with even one that preaches religion!
Religion
is probably the worst thing that has happened to mankind. Love alone is enough
to run the world. But when you need to justify hate, there's no better tool
than religion. You'll never need religion to do something good, but the
crutches of evil are needed to do evil. No religion has ever provided a
solution to anyone's problems. Religion has been, and continues to be,
responsible for most of evils in this world. People feel gravely offended if
anything is said against their religion but not so much when anything is said
against their country or when they see injustice in society. What a pity!
We
keep praying, and praying, and praying, and all prayers go unnoticed! And as a
final refuge we say "God works in mysterious ways. God has better plans
for us." Why fool yourself? Why not stop praying and actually start doing
something? We have faced a lot of calamities, most recent being the floods in
Uttarakhand. What did we do? We pray for them! We pray, do nothing, and still
think we are helping! Not even 1 of 36 crore (Male + Female) of our so called
Gods turned up for the rescue. Who came to the rescue were a bunch of mortals
from Indian Defence Services who proved that hard work does more than a prayer
of millions. Those people should be our Gods. And I tell you, your and my mythological
God takes away a lot of credit from these people and their gallantry. May it be
their heroics in war at Longewala where 120 fought against 2000 to save our
Land or it be in rescue missions every now and then. I always feel like saying
the famous lines of Winston Churchill - "Never was so much owed by so many
to so few."
Above
picture (source Internet) certainly speaks more than a thousand words!
And
if you believe we need God/Religion so that people don't commit sins and
devilish acts out of fear, think of those gentlemen from Delhi (Newspaper
arrives with rape news everyday). It is entirely upto the individual. Good
people will keep doing good, even in absence of God's divine surveillance. If
you are hubris of highest order to still believe in God and Religions, atleast know
this - Ram and Jesus and Allah might be what this world deserves, but they
definitely are not what this world needs right now!
As
the Greek Philosopher Epicurus brilliantly says:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Forget
religions. Forget God. Remember only one thing that Rahul Dravid said at Sir
Bradman Oration - "Try to leave every place better than you found
it". If at all there are Gods and they are just, they will love you if you
have done some good to humanity even if you've not worshipped them. If there
are Gods, but unjust, then you anyway would not want to worship them. If there
are no Gods, you won’t be reborn in this world but atleast you would have done
something good for which you shall be remembered forever. Try to make this
world a better place instead of thinking about heavens. No such things as
heaven or hell exist. And if at all it exists, then this is Heaven - Our
Country!
The
day love and morality gets precedence over God and religion, this world will be
a heaven we all dream of.
PS:
If anything unfortunate happens to me earlier than expected, please
understand that it will solely be due to my mistake/actions/carelessness. Do
not say it happened to me as a punishment for I wrote all this against your
God!! :P
