Karl Marx once famously said ......." Religion is the opium of Masses".
And my experience with the religion compels me agree with his view point.
Thousand years ago what started as a mission to civilize the Barbaric human society has become an instrument of converting humans into barbaric beings.At that time there was no civilized society , no constitution , no I P C and no competent rulers. That society was just different from the animal kingdom which we nowadays see in the Animal planet.The vacuum of rule of law was
quickly filled by the pagan religions.It started with human societies worshiping things which they where afraid of. Thus started the worshiping of sun, thunderbolts, rain ,beasts etc.Then came the concept of a higher authority which has control over all our actions and can punish us in the present life or in the after life. All the religions evolved from here. Then came the modern religions which exist today.The new religions where more ordered and brought more stability to the societies. The fusion of politics with these religions which made them a force to reckon with. Soon the whole world was brought down to its knees by them.With these religion the religious fundamentalism which was present earlier too got institutionalized. The world thereafter was dominated by the Politico-religious movements . Only few non political religions like Hinduism and Buddhism could survive this great on onslaught.
But do we need these religions nowadays in this modern world.The debate was first started by the famous statement of Karl Marx. Has the human society advanced beyond the religious limits. Are the religions a stumbling block in our further development.
The basic need for the religion to exist in the society does not exist today. Now our social structure is far more better that the founders of the great religions could have envisioned.
Instead of bringing peace to the society these religions are bringing conflict.
Socially too it has become a mental block. Now its the time to remove this block.But its easier said than done. Because our society is under the influence of the opium. Its is too high under its influence to understand these things. Go to any religious function and u will realize this. The dedication of the men in the prayer will make u laugh.
The rituals there will make even the most barbaric culture seem modern in comparison.
What do people expect from god after participating in those barbaric rituals.
Will god become happy with u if u cry "god is great" or" bhagwan ki jay". If god really exist then I don't think that he will be flattered by this great sycophancy.He will be flattered by ur right action, ur good way of life.
As already stated ,the big question is "whether religion has lost its importance".
This question is dealt with in a right way in the novel Da Vinci Code.
Its true that religion started as a stabilizing force and ended up as a disrupting force, but still world needs a god, a religion and a divine force which can guide them if the need arises.world doesn't need the politico religious movements whose only aim is to glorify some individuals or god.
We need a religion which doesn't attaches politics to itself ,whose only aim is to bring peace to this materialistic world and provide strength to those in need.
In fact a world without spiritualism would be a skeleton without flesh over it.Lets change the religion in a way which suites us.Today all of us follow the religion which suited the society thousands years ago.These religions are totally out of sync with modern world. We need to take the element of politics out of the religions and steer it towards spirituality. We need to have religion which makes a god out of every individuals, not just glorify somebody as god when in reality he too was a common man like us.
In short we need to customize the religions to our need or just see them fading into the oblivion.
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hi naman.. good to see u creating a blog and hope u make use of it for some healthy, beneficial discussions.. here is my frank opinion, don't mind...i went through ur blogs...only to find that our statements on religion, sorry to say, but r just based on surfacial knowledge of religion.. what to say about that many of us just look at the communal riots of religion n make a negative opinion of what actually religion is meant for.. it's not our fault as we don't have the experience of real religion(no solution to this..??.there is)animals don't have the concept of God and religion, so can there be peace ever in animal kingdom..!! similarly can there ever be peace amog peolpe(who just behave like animals without "proper" philosophy of religion)?????...sad to say, our opinions, judgements and prejudices on religion r just based on the "issues of public welfare",which is nothing but how to improve our material standards of 4 animalistic propensities of eating,mating, sleeping and defending(i.e sense gratification)but there is that "real" welfare which the religion can do, but unfortunately peolpe are not interested for that higher understanding..two things:
1) religion without philosophy is mere sentiment and fanaticism.
2) philosophy without religion is just, just "mental speculation", which is more dangerous(like the present age peolpe).
just for info. "hinduism" is not an indian word..muslims when invaded 10 centuries back arrived at "Sindhu river", but could not pronounce "S" and called it Hindu and thus came Hinduism into picture..then what was our culture and religion known before.???...in vedas, Bhagavatgeeta, bhagavatam we find not hinduism, but SANATANA DHARMA, means "eternal religion"..the word itself means it existed from the creation and will exist till the end of universe..so humans existed not just 1000's yrs before as speculated by darwin, but from billions of yrs back(4000 millions ago as stated in vedas).but what it has got to do with our religion and our life ??.it has..more next..bye
hi naman.. good to see u creating a blog and hope u make use of it for some healthy, beneficial discussions.. here is my frank opinion, don't mind...i went through ur blogs...only to find that our statements on religion, sorry to say, but r just based on surfacial knowledge of religion.. what to say about that many of us just look at the communal riots of religion n make a negative opinion of what actually religion is meant for.. it's not our fault as we don't have the experience of real religion(no solution to this..??.there is)animals don't have the concept of God and religion, so can there be peace ever in animal kingdom..!! similarly can there ever be peace amog peolpe(who just behave like animals without "proper" philosophy of religion)?????...sad to say, our opinions, judgements and prejudices on religion r just based on the "issues of public welfare",which is nothing but how to improve our material standards of 4 animalistic propensities of eating,mating, sleeping and defending(i.e sense gratification)but there is that "real" welfare which the religion can do, but unfortunately peolpe are not interested for that higher understanding..two things:
1) religion without philosophy is mere sentiment and fanaticism.
2) philosophy without religion is just, just "mental speculation", which is more dangerous(like the present age peolpe).
just for info. "hinduism" is not an indian word..muslims when invaded 10 centuries back arrived at "Sindhu river", but could not pronounce "S" and called it Hindu and thus came Hinduism into picture..then what was our culture and religion known before.???...in vedas, Bhagavatgeeta, bhagavatam we find not hinduism, but SANATANA DHARMA, means "eternal religion"..the word itself means it existed from the creation and will exist till the end of universe..so humans existed not just 1000's yrs before as speculated by darwin, but from billions of yrs back(4000 millions ago as stated in vedas).but what it has got to do with our religion and our life ??.it has..more next..bye
Hi sir,
Its really nice to know ur opinion about my blog.Indeed my view on religion is totally based on its effect on the society. I dont have much knowledge about the other aspect of religion( i suspect that many of them dont have that other aspect like spirituality which u where talking about).Will try 2 catch up with u people in this field.
Good piece of education but what must be realized is religion reached the good/evil status attained by money a little late but with no less power. In the due course of time it became one of few ultimate elements of survival of a being and guaranteed its stay to eternity. Its imminent and only possible transition to spirituality lies in intellectual realizations, which are last things to expect of a mass and religion being so notoriously a mass phenomenon, thus less remains to be said.
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