“So many Gods, so many creeds’
So many paths that wind and wind’
While just the art of being kind,
Is all the sad world needs.”
-Ella Wilcox 1855-1919:”The World’s Need”
I read the morning newspaper the other day and the front page highlighted the latest bombing in Delhi. It forced me think how few people can be the cause of so much pain and suffering and for what? I mean they are gaining nothing from doing this are they? And then they let the world know that are true followers of their faith and that their religion tells them that what they did was right.
Everywhere around the world one will find tiffs and fights between groups of people over religion. Salman Rushdie exposed the ills of his religion and got endless fatwas issued against him. The worst thing actually is that the political parties make use of religion to earn few damn votes without thinking what risk they are putting the community in. At least the natural disasters don’t distinguish between people based on religion so there is no scope of vengeance and hence no more bloodshed and death and blaming and when you think about it these disasters actually bring people closer binding them together than separating them as religion does.
God gave us mind to analyze what’s right and what’s wrong, but unfortunately we have been made numb by the endless teachings that have made us nothing but puppets of religion. Dennis Potter was right when he said “Religion to me has always been the wound not the bandage.”
