God vs Religion

This was my first post in my old blog and always happened to my favorite.

I write, not to change the perceptions of other people but to give a platform to my thoughts, how insignificant/inconsequential they may be, they are still thoughts of a human being who has the courage to think beyond the limits and live a life beyond the boundaries.What would be a more apt subject to talk about than the existence/presence of something, which has been with me through everything in my life till now and whose existence I can maybe understand only after death. GOD, which in itself sounds so weird... I have my days where I seem to understand everything about God and then days, where the thought of God seems so absurd and yet believable.

I am not here to discuss the existence of God, I may someday write a different blog for that. I am just going to write about "God vs Religion", the topic I can never get out of my mind.

God, in itself is soooooooooooooooo vast and eternal, I never understood why we would want to push him into a small space called "Religion". A religion is what defames God, makes him feel SMALL, makes people "God fearing" rather than "God loving". Our forefathers created religion to tame human beings, not to create differences between people. Back in the beginning of human life, people didn't know the difference between right and wrong, and so the rules and principles started. I am sure it was a SINE graph, in the beginning just the basic rules and then gradually they grew into steadfast, unpractical LAWS which existed only to suppress the weak. And now again, these laws are slowly changing back into the basic rules in some parts of the world while it remains the same or gets worse in other parts of the world. Every person needs a little religion in life, me too ;) but not to bottle up dreams and principles about life but to tame one's life. Religions, instead of bringing the world together... is building barriers between people. Which religion really asks people to kill innocent human beings? Crazy people, encouraged by even more crazier people, kill kids, innocent weak human beings to satisfy their thirst for power maybe... I don't know what, but it is cruel as hell.

There are two countries, India and Pakistan, fighting over a beautiful state for years and years, and in their ridiculous war, thousands of people have died, property was destroyed, everything was lost but they still won't stop. And the only difference between these two countries where the people look almost the same... India legally is a secular country while Pakistan is more a Muslim country. Then there are the terrorists who got nothing better to do than send out warnings to everyone in the world at the smallest provocation and actually, put all these warnings into action! What is the objective of religion??? To kill??? To shed blood for a noble cause is valiant but to wring out blood from innocent people for nothing is outrageous.

Hinduism preaches that women in a certain period of time cannot come to temples, cannot worship God. This is one of the most ridiculous rules a religion has stated. How can something which she can't help with make her pure or impure, something which God, itself has created??? If this is what really God really wants, then I would rather stay a nonbeliever (better, opposer of God) and burn in hell than worship it. This particular religion has started off well but soon the power seeking individuals turned it into a mockery of human existence by making rules which suppressed everyone that is weak, including the women, the normal hard working humans, the only people who have an advantage in this religion are the priests and their families, and the royal families. This religion works on caste and gender basis. And funny, how all of them breathe the same air, drink the same water, eat the same food, have the same cravings, everything is the same, only their births are different.This isn't the only religion which has blemishes. EVERY religion has its own flaws and its own beauty. It all depends on what we choose to believe in.

I hate the negative followers of a religion and not the religion. Like, I hate it that Hindus believe in caste system, gender discrimination and use religion to hate other people. I hate all these so called Hindu organizations sue anyone and everyone who say or do one thing against hindusim... Duh! Where is democracy if you cant say what you want to? I hate it that Christians are hypocrites and believe that people who don't follow Jesus will go to hell... I especially hate Indian Christians who will use financial benefits to make people convert into their religion, worse use resources like water to convert people into Christianity. I hate Muslims (like many other people) who use religion as an excuse to kill people and who have no idea what "Freedom" to anything (including Speech, Religion) means!

I would never say don't follow religions, to everyone... its their own way of life! But how about not shoving your religious ideas in other people's faces? I don't want to see in my Facebook Newsfeed, what God you pray to and how much you love your God, I just don't care! Let other people choose their own path of life as long as they are not hurting/bothering other human beings.

I just remembered this amazing scene in "The Matrix: Revolutions" where Agent Smith keeps asking Neo, "Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? .........It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?" and Neo says "Because I choose to"."What we are is what we choose"

P.S - Think beyond the man made boundaries and you will understand the essence of life.