Sunday 18 March 2012

God v/s Religion

Religion, this is something that the world takes so seriously, but I don't. Not because I am an Athiest but because religion is Manmade and not something foreordained by God himself. I love God and I believe in his existence but I do not understand that when God remains the same, why do we need to name him differently just for the sake of certain sects of society.

"I believe in God, not in Jesus or Ram."

On a more factual basis, I will strengthen my idea on God by saying, "Is there any place in the bible where it is said that GOD is saying something in First Person????......"NO", the whole Bible is in Third person. This means Bible is just a narrative and not "The words of God himself"

By this, I do not mean that we stop believing in these texts, these texts were written only to do this, "For us to Believe", but then why were they written then, are these stories real and true????

In my humble opinion, these stories are a proof of how humans are.
Humans have always been physical and materialistic in their mindsets, they could never believe completely something which they could not see, also relating to why we have such a Science influenced world now. Understanding this, our ancestors, who wrote these texts knew that if they relate values to stories and give them a physical form, it would be easier for generations to come to relate to them and learn from them.

What is God?
Well before explaining that, just take into account this; "Have you ever thought why these religious texts are similar in values but different in content?
It is because as it is said, God resides in everyone, (God in this sense are values, values of character and morals) , what they, our ancestors did was simply to have written down these values in form of stories to pass to progenies and thus be a point of contact for morals in the future.

Just imagine, only then it is posssible that all of them have different stories but the same values in them, no two persons can write the same story on a given moral, they will be different.

So finally,

"God is a certain set or pooling of ideal qualities that each person should possess in order for him to be the best of what he can be"

This brings us to another part of my theory, "Can we write a religious text?"

Yes we can, because every human has the same values and morals in life, it is only his choice what stories he designs to pass it on to the future. When we remember God,we see a particular image in our minds for him. But why can we not see him in a gangster dress and still show the same qualities.
We CAN, it is only a matter of time when that image be then in the minds of it's followers!!!

You might be thinking by now that if we all have the same qualities and values, why are there terrorists and crooked people in this world. it is because God gave us these values but also gave us the power to choose whether or not to follow them. This power of Choice brings us a balance of Good and bad in this world.

Then what happens to the prophets and messengers of God, they were only people who showed a true image of a how a person with these qualities would be like, they were the ideals in terms of that generation so there importance and existence was also very essential, as there life can be taken as an example by everyone.

Therefore, the texts that these religions so gladly depend on are just visual portayal of idealistic character for us to learn from and Grow.By my ideas, I do not mean to hurt the feelings of others but just to putforth something that I beliove in.

"God doesn't want religions, he just needs Love, Love among US"


3 comments:

  1. SPLENDID!!

    KEEP IT UP IN LEISURE TIME.....

    LOVE,

    MOMMY

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  2. I really like a lot of the points that you bring up!
    I too believe that religion is man made, but not only because God is in us and we KNOW and have these innate ideals within us, but a lot of it was about survival.

    Times have changed and the world population of humans has never been greater or more challenging! Nature does not challenge us as much as we challenge ourselves by creating all these problems [like destruction of the environment and hunger].

    I thing God is something you can feel within and choose to oblige or not. I do think we all have a notion what is wrong or right and thought cultures can vary you on the other side of the world know as well as I, that taking another life is wrong [etc etc].

    This really made me start thinking philosophically!

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    1. Well I am glad if you felt so Ana....Thanks a lot...You know i dont seem to understand how are we going to survive if we take these religions so seriously and start killing each other based on our religion.
      It's been happenning a lot in India these days.

      May God(so called) help us bringing the balance back in.
      For those of us who follow it, I am happy but we should follow the values of God and not fight like retards on whether the God is jesus, mary Ram or Mohammed!!!

      Keep thinking!!!

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