As a writer and a student of biochemistry i have studies several religions as electives of my own choice at McGill University.I belive we have enough religions to make us hate , but not enough to make us love one another.This observation finds ample reflection in the words 'Human will wrangle for religion; write for it , fight for it, die for it, anything but-live for it.'
To day no effort is spared by unscrupulous and vested interest groups to unsettle people's faith in the religion into which they are born.Benjamin Franklin wondered: ' If humans are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?' Religion cannot be displaced by intellectual argument, for it provides a primordial identity to many.What is needed is a public policy aimed at creating space to strengthen secondary identities.Education should encourage children to cultivate a scientific temper in all spheres of life. When reason takes centre stage,religion will automatically be relegated.
While all religions are good and preach peace, their followers seem to have the tendency to become narrow-minded and bigots.More people have been killed in the name of religion than in the name of any other cause.I simply do not understand how people think what they believe in is the only truth and the rest of humanity which thinks otherwise is wrong, even though all religious beliefs remain theories and shall remain so till eternity.
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