Fundamentalists Never Try to Understand their Holy Book
Every religious book motivates its believers,
To spread the message to others,
And convert the non-believers if possible;
If they are unwilling, do not forcibly convert them.
Fundamentalists believe in enforcing their will, on non-believers.
They are ruthless; accept bloodshed and violence in their mission.
God does not approve violence.
There Are Irrational Rewards And Punishments
*A religious book states:
A believer will go to heaven; live in the company of pretty fairies in attendance and luxury all around.
How can we enjoy sensual pleasures after death, when we have no body?
*The Day of Judgment deters the believers from sins,
Thus motivates them to live noble life.
How can we punish an entity, without a body or any of the 5 senses?
A physical punishment!
When there is no physique, the physical punishment is irrelevant.
A spiritual punishment! We are not bothered.
*A religion guides its believers to live ethically;
Or else, God will punish by denying rebirth as human being,
And we are reborn after death as animal, bird or any other lower specie.
Evolution of Universe as Explained, is Wrong Normally
*Another holy book describes evolution of life:
Third day, God created earth,
And fourth day, there was light; God created Sun.
Is earth older than Sun?
If there was no Sun, on first day,
There was no day light, no morning and no evening.
*When there was no awareness of Law of Universal Gravitation,
Some of us believed:
Our earth is resting on the horns of a great bull,
When the great bull shakes his head,
There is earthquake.
*Believers of a religion believed in geocentric theory.
All concepts were earlier based on, some axioms or postulates.
Mankind devised a theory and accepted it without any proof.
It was sacrosanct; a disbelief invited death.
The believers were violent to a non-believer scientist,
Who had proposed heliocentric model.
A Reptile Respected a Prophet
Reptiles cared for a holy prophet in a mythological story.
The prophet was sleeping outside on a sunny day,
There was no shade and it was hot.
A snake slithered, it created an umbrella cover with its hood, over the prophet.
It reverenced the holy saint and displayed its reverence.
Mythological Characters Are a Figment of Imagination
Believers accept irrational concepts with devotion, without any doubt,
There are demigods to suit every need.
A demigod, with an elephant head on a human body,
Is one of the most reverenced and worshipped demigod.
Irrationalities Are There in All Religions
*We should not criticize irrational facts in other religions.
As long as these do not affect us, we should tolerate.
To comment or make fun of other religions,
Is a democratic right, under freedom to speak; but it is not in good taste.
*Fasting results in self-cleansing,
It is universally accepted in all religions.
Hymn singing is a universal phenomenon.
Do these activities contribute towards spirituality in humanity?
We are not sure.
*We respect and remember, our friends and relatives with photographs.
We respect our leaders by erecting statues in their memory.
But there is a ban on worshipping God in pictures or with idols in a religion.
The Solution
The human concept of ethical behavior is nearly identical in all religions,
All religions expect believers to live noble life.
A religion is: beliefs/rituals and human behavior.
However in reality,
Society gives more weight to religious beliefs than to ethical behavior,
And sadly it continues to do so.
All religions teach compassion, but it is seldom practiced.
Holy people - saints and pastors continue to have loose moral code.
A spiritual behavior is desirable.
In the past, society overlooked erratic behavior in members of royalty and other bigwigs.
Patricide, fratricidal and immorality were prevalent aberrations in royalty.
Questioning a ritual or a belief of a religion was taboo,
It was neither expected nor tolerated.
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