Truth will triumph eventually and all the fabrications and falsities of religion and irrational faith-systems will be swept aside by the tide of times to make way for truth pure and simple, impersonal and democratic. Personalized versions of absolute truth, ever a contradiction in terms, will not bear much weight in the current age when scientific scrutiny will expose the inadequacies of reasoning embedded therein. Truth to be truth must be de-localized for it is universal in essence and in its sweep. It can never be culturally born as is the case with the Semitic religions, archaic and absolute, irrational and autocratic, with quaint ideas of godhead and transcendence that make neither scientific sense nor are evidence-based save in the peculiar claims of specific revelations received by unique individuals who are termed prophets and who have exclusive rights, therefore, to dictate terms to the rest of humanity as to what they should believe in and how they should behave. Such arrant nonsense handed down by cultural relay through the centuries by fear-stricken, brainwashed, superstitious and ignorant believers, and imposed on millions by decree and death have long overseen the victory of vice over virtue and falsity over truth. But their day is done and the sledgehammer blows of science are now going to loosen the stranglehold of these irrational cults as the world wakes up to reason and future generations will increasingly be sceptical of dogma and doctrine and demand for evidence, tangible and reasonable, before they pitch in their lot with such theories. In all probability, much of religion that is mythical and scientifically or historically untenable will be relegated to the waste-bin and only such portions as tally with scientific findings of matter and the mind will survive to see a brighter day, reinforced by invigorating rational rigour of science. But much of the cherished dreams, false and foolish, to which humankind clings to with fanatical fervour, will be laid aside and out of the debris of old superstition will spring a new enlightenment, a fresh awakening that truly hearkens to the soul of man and not to his political outer self that masquerades as spiritual. The future is bright for science, not so for the Semitic religions as they will find themselves increasingly on the back-foot trying to defend the indefensible till eventually they capitulate and either are obliterated form the face of the earth or are reformed to fit in with the findings of modern science. The picture is bleak for these religions when one envisions future humanity as rationally trained not to accept unique personal statements as prophetic pronouncements and demanding concrete evidence for every article of faith. Will these religions survive or will they then have to run to the Vedanta of the Hindus for providing them a basis for escape from extinction? Well, that seems to be the likely fate of the Semitic religions. They will have to suffer reform in a big way such that their very identities will change for good and they will have to borrow the ideas of the Vedanta, God knows how though, to be able to grapple with the death-blows of logic hurled at them by science. Intriguing seems the fate of these religions and inspiring seems to be the future of the Vedanta. For the present we may only conjecture as to the future but what lies ahead will surely play up as time unfolds, revealing its cards to pull the final shot. May truth prevail!
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