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Articles: My Thoughts | | Religion and my Views | |
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| Well...religion is just faith. U believe in one god..u follow one religion..i believe in one god, i follow someother religion. however, problem comes with one being narcissistic about his/her religion and imagining tht all others are bad! That however, depends on the kinda atmos the person grows up in and the kinda mindset he has and the way he understands his RELIGION. This fighting in the name of religion......let us hope some sense is instilled in to those chauvinistic minds and we can all see that dream world where equality is prevalent evrywhere.....Dunno if as an individual one can do anything towards this equality but.....jus keep thinking.
Posted by: Ms. Sowmya V.B. At: 16, Apr 2006 11:40:33 AM IST
Social laws are framed so that the welfare of a given society is protected. Religion is a technology of ensuring compliance with the social laws framed. Since they are framed with reference to a particular society, they differ from society to society. Hence the multiplicity of religions. expansion, ambition and love for what 'belongs' to self are natural to men. hence the desire to convert or to'prove' that one's religion is the best.Religious quarrels will never end. they will end only if we refute all religions.
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Posted by: Prof. Narasimham Brahmandam At: 21, Jun 2004 4:01:31 PM IST
Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another. These theories, again, are based upon belief. One man says there is a great Being sitting above the clouds and governing the whole universe, and he asks me to believe that solely on the authority of his assertion. In the same way, I may have my own ideas, which I am asking others to believe, and if they ask a reason, I cannot give them any. This is why religion and metaphysical philosophy have a bad name nowadays.Every educated man seems to say, "Oh, these religions are only bundles of theories without any standard to judge them by, each man preaching his own pet ideas." Nevertheless, there is a basis of universal belief in religion, governing all the different theories and all the varying ideas of different sects in different countries. Going to their basis we find that they also are based upon universal experiences. Religions are divided into two classes those with a book and those without a book. Those with a book are strongest and have a large number of followers those without a book are not stronger and almost died out.The Christian asks you to believe in his religion, to believe in Christ and to believe in him as the incarnation of God, to believe in a God, in a soul, and in a better state of that soul. If I ask him for reason, he says he believes in them. But if you go to the fountain-head of Christianity, you will find that it is based upon experience. Christ said he saw God; the disciples said they felt God; and so forth. Similarly, in Buddhism, it is Buddha's experience. He experienced certain truths, saw them, came in contact with them, and preached them to the world. So with the Hindus. In their books the writers, who are called Rishis, or sages, declare they experienced certain truths, and these they preach. Thus it is clear that all the religions of the world have been built upon that one universal and adamantine foundation of all our knowledge--direct experience. The teachers all saw God; they all saw their own souls, they saw their future, they saw their eternity, and what they saw they preached. Only there is this difference that by most of these religions especially in modern times, a peculiar claim is made, namely, that these experiences are impossible at the present day; they were only possible with a few men, who were the first founders of the religions that subsequently bore their names. At the present time these experiences have become obsolete, and, therefore, we have now to take religion on belief. This I entirely deny. If there has been one experience in this world in any particular branch of knowledge, it absolutely follows that that experience has been possible millions of times before, and will be repeated eternally. Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always.
Posted by: Mr. Ramkumar Ramkumar At: 12, Aug 2002 3:48:48 PM IST
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