The fastest way to solve human problems is to educate the masses. Education will bring in awareness, instil self-confidence and empower people to fight for their rights and defend their existent status.
Faith-based religious education is regressive and stifling. It conduces to no well-being, rather throttles human potentialities through irrational indoctrination. All such theocratic propensities must be given up in the intellectual training of a people and pure science must be resorted to in equipping them for the battle of life. Then and then alone will humanity surge rapidly ahead in its onward march along the evolutionary track. Then shall wisdom prevail when dark delusions have been dispelled about despotic divinities, when the clear stream of reason flows rippling free, when the limitations of reason are further transcended in the light of higher spiritual understanding, free of the contamination of earthly empowerment, when men shall stand equal to the God they have thus far cowered before, when knowledge shall be the birthright and inheritance of all, free, fair and fertile, devoid of the dominance of prophetic pronouncements, arbitrary archaic injunctions or messianic mesmerisms that keep humanity bound to dogmatic doctrines.
The process must begin at all levels, in every sphere of human society, this reclamation of rationality, this rejection of superstition, this transcendence of the limitations of life. Only when the whole world is truly literate, will humanity enter the golden phase of peace and enlightenment about which poets and philosophers have forever sung. Let us all strive for such a cultural uplift.
Written by Sugata Bose
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