Let me ask you one thing first. What was the longest time you have spent alone, not getting bored, not feeling to meet someone, not trying to have some FUN? Tough isn’t it? Being alone is not all that great. Let us all agree on that one. With me so far? Good.
Now, we will move on to talk about a thing that a lot of us humans claim to be alone. And has been alone since our great great great grand parents and continue to be so to with us, to our next generation and so on and so forth. Yes! I’m talking about this thing a lot of humans call ‘god’. (I will capitalize the letter g when I recognize it).
I have a question for all of you that say it is one and only ONE. Why is it alone? Doesn’t it have a family? its parents? Its siblings? Its uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews? None? If they are there, aren’t they all gods too, automatically, by genetic inheritance? (I guess when the forefathers wrote down rules for Hinduism, they understand this aspect of it. Hurray!! Atleast some one got it! Right or not)
Yes, I’m saying “It” and not “He” or “She” because I don’t want to offend any particular set of humans that think the god thing is a male or a female or an unidentified/unclassified alien. Well, I agree, I’m taking a much worse path by offending them all well, that’s just me.
Honestly, for a particular sect of people on one part of the planet, its Allah, or Mohammed, or one of their relatives, and for another sect, its Jesus, or his father, or Mary (yeah, there’s got to be something about her, pun intended!!!). For yet other sect, its Shiva or Vishnu or Ganesh or Venkateswara (and that’s just a sampling from the gentlemen group, then there is ladies group as well as animal group).
But then we all say, there is only one. WHY? Yet, we all think our ONE is the great ONE compared to any others’ ONE. Hmmmmm.. .instead of us fighting among us humans, why don’t we all just ask our own respective ONEs’ to go fight among themselves and just come back with a winner. Woohoo, we got a winner, and now we also have only ONE. This time, a real numero uno. Until the winner comes back to report to us, we’ll just wait and hold any fights among us humans. Can we agree on that one? Please?
Let me put out a theory of my own! I’m not sure if it is already put out by someone else. Anyway, read on…
Not all humans are strong. Whether it is mentally or physically or by any measure of your choosing. The weak ones look for some guidance when they can’t make up their mind. That’s when a leader emerged. Obviously, there are a lot of such leaders. One per pack of these two legged, so called “intelligent”, creatures. In a given part of the planet, they all got together. And one fine day, they figured we can’t fight among ourselves. It is bad for all of us. So, let us define a vague thing so that we all look up to that. Vague enough that no one knows what it is yet no one would question it. And we will put some rules in place on behalf of that “thing” and we’ll just follow those rules.
Trust me, it worked brilliantly. Absolutely fantastic. Not surprisingly, same thing happened on different parts of the planet. Everyone was living happily within their own set of rules. And then, the world became flat (you know what I mean!!).
Now, when these groups met each other, well.. uh-oh! My rules are better than your rules. My “thing” is better than your “thing”. So, the groups started cleansing. A euphemistic name is “ethnic cleansing”. Nothing but murdering those who believe something other than what you believe in.
So, instead of applying the same approach again and create a new “thing” and its rules so that we can all live in harmony again, we went backwards. Back to the days of packs fighting and killing each other just because they all thought their own leader is the best.
So, with that thought, do you think we are evolving? Some evolution, huh?!
Let me give you another hypothetical analogy. How about all vegans, vegetarians and non-vegetarians fight and kill each other because each of them thinks their way of eating is the best. Sounds ridiculous? Or, all the Windows lovers and Mac lovers and Linux lovers try to kill each other? (Unfortunately, there are some educated idiots that are probably not too far from this idea!!!) Sound ridiculous?
Exactly my point! Fighting under the name of “religion” (whatever crap that means), is just as ridiculous.
Think about it. Religion is just a rule book. Just like there is a book for MLB or NFL.
Peace!
