PUERILE PREACHERS AND THEIR PRETENTIOUS PERIODIC POSTURING

PUERILE PREACHERS AND THEIR PRETENTIOUS PERIODIC POSTURING

Some of the scriptures of the world are archaic absolutist imposition on modern man. Their monstrous medieval deeds are done and yet they carry on unabated with their inertial evil. How can you have religious harmony and social cohesion when such divine divisiveness continues unabated in a world as yet vitiated by low self-interest, forest forces and primeval dark, when even the God masses of men worship across the world fumes and frets over unbelief, casting infidels into horrific hellfire and believers into pleasurable paradise, when by His commandment children are groomed to becoming martyrs by killing infidels, being dangled the 'pie in the sky when you die'? Impossible. Puerile propositions by grown-up babies of no consequence. 

Swami Vivekananda in his 1900 San Francisco lecture, 'IS VEDANTA THE FUTURE RELIGION' succinctly said it, "A prophet arises, promises all kinds of rewards to those who will follow him and eternal doom to those who will not. Thus he makes his ideas spread. All existent religions that are spreading are tremendously fanatic. The more a sect hates other sects, the greater is its success and the more people it draws into its fold. My conclusion, after travelling over a good part of the world and living with many races, and in view of the conditions prevailing in the world, is that the present state of things is going to continue, in spite of much talk of universal brotherhood." 

Hence, you see, so long as a very large section of humanity is held captive to a divisive, malevolent God, and so long as greed, vice and self-interest vitiate human dealings even otherwise, it is but routine childish prattle, this call to unite and harmonise humanity overriding religious differences without addressing these key scriptural issues with clear understanding, bold articulation and firm execution, a trinity of endeavour which, I dare say, puerile preachers of liberalism are as yet far off from, given their shallowness, self-seeking and utter absence of courage of conviction that would compel them to give up their personal safety-first attitude.

Written by Sugata Bose