Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Religulous - To be or not to be



Bill Maher's documentary film on religion or rather against any form of religion raises very pertinent questions. Although the questions are not new but they do try to shake the base of every religion - "faith".
Bill attacks all religions, does not believe in God and asks everyone he meets "Is faith good?"

My take on the doc and the subject it deals with...

The premise of the movie is something I am completely in sync with. That goes "Religion has done more harm than good to people till now"
Even before the Holy Wars, religion has spurred on people to kill. The irony being, no religion preaches killing other human beings.But then, do people really care?
No Christian behaves like Christ, no Jain like Mahavira and so on....

It is all around us.

Again, we must realize that man has been out of jungle for only 25000 years. That's very little part of the human history which involved killing everyday to survive. When man became "civilized" the violent instincts were far from curbed.
Cause of Religion provides the much needed vent for these feelings.
I can write on this phenomenon for long but no...let me do it my way....
Standing before me is someone who has picked a weapon in the name of religion.
Ok...
I ask .....is there a more stupid thing in the world than this person?
Either the guy is criminally insane or just plain stupid.
The most common cause is the need to "save" the religion from non-believers.
Now that is the height of arrogance! someone trying to "save" religion. Simply reeks of hypocrisy coz religion is an individual affair. It is entirely up to an individual how he wishes to live, how he wishes to connect to God. If one has "faith" his religion is unshake-able. NO need for any saviours.
I believe no two people can have same religion, as no two persons are alike.
I also believe religion to be a private affair between God and an individual, so private it can not be described to others..
Realize this........to commit a crime is easier when one is part of a crowd. Think about it, one would hesitate to bring down Govt building alone but a mob will do it with ease. Hence, the need of religion to do all heinous crimes.

Bill Maher's documentary may not be factually correct at all places..but it does shows the utter irrelevance of religion when there are far more pertinent problems facing the world today.
Global warming, water shortage, food shortage, lack of basic education, population explosion are very real problems which will become more and more acute. But is it really worthwhile to remain busy killing for some idea called "religion". Is it?

(All through the post, i have targeted men, somehow I believe women could have handled this world better, had they got the chance........More on women in my next post!)
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