religion

People say that education can change the idea of a person and make him/her modern and realistic but I have found it wrong in many cases. Until the person gets scientific point of view in his life he can never be realistic. “ Scientific point of view “ written By J.B.S. Haldane explains that how can a scientific approach be a god’s eye because a communist can differentiate between a worker and a landlord, a priest can differentiate on the basis of caste and often can become partial but a scientific view will not differentiate between even a man and an earthworm.

My room mate Amar , has interest in reading , he has read the history of india, Discovery of India by J. L. Nehru, many books of Paulo Coelho, Divine Comedy by Dante and many more. He is an engineer like me but when he accidently touches the books or any piece of paper by his leg , he asks forgiveness from god. Like god only lives in the paper and not in his leg. He becomes non-vegetarian on Monday , Wednesday , Friday and Sunday and becomes vegetarian on remaining days for the sake of God.

This was just an example, we know lots of things but there is something to which perhaps we fear so much that we don’t want to take risk and we do rituals for that.

Non vegetarian in Hindu religion can eat chicken, mutton but can’t eat cow, again for the sake of god. Fine, no problem with that don’t eat what is prohibited but when other religion doesn’t prohibit it then why you want to force those people not to eat that. Because your religion has approved eating chicken and mutton and not cow so no one can eat it.

Think about it. We are educated and we have known about world. We have got Nobel prize , we have done wonders, achieved what and what not but then also we are carrying the burden of religion with us. Can not a person be a human by birth. No he has to be either Brahmin, harijan, muslim, hindu, parsi, yahudi and what not.

We don’t have money to buy clothes or bread , we have loans on our shoulders , we daily see people starving and we do nothing for them but on Solar eclipse we will do charity. On rituals we will feed priests. We have done nothing for us , Indians and we ask why we are not like Americans.

We don’t have to fight with anyone else but with our own religion which was previously a burden and has now become a disease.