Sunday 8 January 2017

ASK YOURSELF ... 1


Is the idea that a specific faith is the last Word of God on religion the proof of its peacefulness and tolerance?

Is exclusiveness of belief, adhered to and imposed upon vast multitudes, the best thing for democratic evolution of thought? 

Ought the whole of humanity be subjected to a single life's access to revelation? 

Must messengers and messiahs hold us to ransom even today with their totalitarian views on life and living when evidence points to truth lying in a direction different from where heavens and hells are located? 

How long must man subscribe to irrational fears of damnation when there is the sublimity of science, art, music, literature and philosophy to make life worth living? 

How long must death-cults hold humanity captive when the brief flicker of life is all that we apparently have and the promise of paradise is but a sensuous dream, bred and fed in the hope of a prolongation of earthly existence devoid of its pain and sorrow?

Are you free to think for yourself anything substantial relating to truth or are you but carrying the baggage of others' thoughts?

Why live in the past reflecting over mistakes made? Why look ahead fearing an uncertain future? Is not the present moment all that is, a compressed point of reality, to be lived and loved and traversed through unto wherever it may lead?

Why is it that there is no freedom to criticise the most violent religion on earth which reserves, however, the exclusive right to criticise and damn all that stands in its path of perfidious proselytisation?

Why is it that the Hindu population is declining in Pakistan and Bangladesh while the Muslim population is ever on the incline in India?    

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