If you are an atheist, there is just one religion for you. If you are a theist, then God save you! Half the problems in today's world are either through religion or religious men.
I am a theist. I am not religious.
I do not want to get into whether Religions came through God(s). All I make out is that there were some very clever men behind the framework of each religion. Generation after generation, these men moulded the framework. They thought of all the problems in society at that point of time and tried to address them in the framework. They also thought of all the natural disasters and calamities they did not understand then and again fit them in the framework. Add to it, things they did not like happening in the society and lo! they are the most important part of the framework.
The end products, as we see today, is the work of so many people. But what we fail to understand, across religions, is that they were still human made. Tell me one product made by humans which is infallible and irrefutable?
The question is not whether I need to follow a religion. The question to ask is whether I, as a human, need to follow another human blindly? If some human, who just by living a few thousand years before me has the advantage of giving a path to God, why can't I find my own new path to reach my God? What makes someone who lived before special and me ordinary? Nothing!
So, are religions bad? No. Are there good things in religious? Yes. But can they be better? Certainly!
I don't care about people who practice their weirdest path as long as they do not harm others.
More importantly, my heart bleeds for a few people caught in some religion who cannot break the shackles. They are those who hate some customs in their religions but can never come out or talk about it. What wrong did they do? Can't they have their freedom?
God made Man. Man made religion. What is religion fast making? End of Earth.
When spending the first few days on my return from US in Elangadu, I captured some of the flora and fauna there. Ramya captured the squirrel busy with the coconut. Elangadu is a sleepy little village along the banks of Cauvery river. Coconut groves and paddy fields dot the landscape with banana trees thrown in. Fauna is typical Indian tropical with lot of squirrels, crows, sparrows, goats, dogs, an occasional woodpecker, kingfisher, etc.
