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In my last post I had criticised the current scenario pertaining to religion in India. I figured no criticism is complete, unless you point out what is wrong, and how it can or should be corrected. I’m certain we’re way past the point of return. But the prospective benefits are so humongous that it’s worth a try.

I have come across many people who sit in temples or in front of their idols at home for hours on ends. You would call them religious, I don’t. And because I don’t, I’m an atheist. But what we fail to notice is that these people neglect their duties as a mother/father, as a wife/husband, as a HUMAN BEING in the course of decorating their idols and spending hours just admiring their God’s ‘beauty’. Is this religion? Is this the way ‘God’ would want us to live. They will have a hundred maligning thoughts in their minds, a thousand ill wishes for other people, a million pervert desires, but they are religious people.

It’s not like I’m against idol worship. I also join my hands and pay respect to the idols of Gods and Goddesses. What I’m against is IDLE IDOL WORSHIP. It just doesn’t make sense. What do you think? The God that you’re trying to ‘impress’, is he going to get more impressed by you wasting all your time in decorating his idol or if you use that same time to do some good for your family, friends or mankind? I don’t think God is so selfish. He/She wouldn’t be ‘God’ if he/she was.

It’s high time we paid humanity its due attention. It’s high time we stopped discriminating people based on religion. Religions are mere paths leading to the same destination. In today’s scenario, religions have become paths to divert mankind from the desired destination and lead him away to an unhappy ending. There really is no other religion greater in reach than humanity.

attempt at poetry

The re-re-re-return

I buried it once, I buried it twice
But the tombstone still
Pokes out of the ground
Troubling me, haunting me.

No amount of reasoning can
Quench this tremendous fire
More that I feel its stupid
Stronger is the desire.

A dream it was, a desire it was
Stronger than any I had felt before
But courage I had not, to realise it
The dream that is filling me once more.

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A few days back I paid a visit to Tirupathi, the renowned religious hub. Yes, I chose the word ‘hub’ on purpose because that is what it has become, a place of commercial activity and high money transactions. It is ‘supposed’ to be holy land, a place where we remember and give praise to God. But what I witnessed there has opened my eyes to the true picture of religion in our country.

We forget the basic etiquettes, the fundamental behaviour that we’re supposed to display as the most civilised species. We start behaving worse than animals, and the best part is we consider these people to be the most devotional and religious. Frankly, it disgusts me to see people behave like this.

How can you push and shove elders who can barely stand on their own feet in the name of religion? How can you push children around so that you reach the idol before they do in the name of religion? How can you touch various parts of women in the name of religion? Is this what you call religion? Is this what you call devotion? If this is your definition of religion and devotion and God, then I will gladly be called an Atheist.