Posted by: Eutab4 January 9, 2013
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Eating or not eating cow, who gives more money in charities, who killed more people...In the grand scheme of things, I think these points are basically irrelevant if we talk about the need/role of religion moving forward. People of any religions come up with cultures/rituals to make life more colorful...create festivals, create rituals, glorify certain things....the barebone principals of religions are basically similar of all religions and in fact are boring...that's why more tangible parts (dashain, christmas, janmasthami etc etc) are in demand. But these things have a lifecycle....they come and go (or loose the same level of significance) over a long period of time....Do you agree that Sati Pratha made a perfect sense at some point? Chhaupudi still makes sense?
I think we need to look beyond these symbols of religions..by that I mean like two dimensional tiger's drawing we show to kids so that they can understand and have fun at the same time...
The real question is: Why religion? Is there a god? Some of you touch upon it, rather blissfully.
Now I like to challange some of you great minds: We have some understanding of nature, so we know everything? So has anyone actually denied (not foolhardily) with a fact that God doesn't exist. I recall CNN interview with Stephen Hawkin's co-author (GOD) in 2010. The book GOD was supposed to dennouce the role of God, but the very guy was saying at the end of the interview that 'no, we cannot say for sure that the God doesn't exist" "All we trying to say is, the theories (Quantum and Relativity) can be explained without the role of God." I have not read the book myself, but 'is that it'? Really? Are these two theories the ultimate realities? What about GUTs like Superstring Theories? We are nowhere near understanding it....(I am laughing now)..just becuase I am eating my sandwich as lunch there is no such thing as a sushi? Sorry, I am not convinced.
Going back home....Lakshmi Prasad Devkota who all of his life promoted basically atheist belief...you all know what he ended with:
Na bhakti bho gyan, na bho bibek
Aakhir ShriKrishna rahechha Ek.
You can name scores of greatminds that denied the God during their heydays, but ended admitting not knowing anything or being a believer.
I think that's where our focus has to be. (Please argue)
If we (ever) come to agree to the role of religions, what should it teach us?
Eating or not eating cow, who gives more money in charities, who killed more people...In the grand scheme of things, I think these points are basically irrelevant if we talk about the need/role of religion moving forward. People of any religions come up with cultures/rituals to make life more colorful...create festivals, create rituals, glorify certain things....the barebone principals of religions are basically similar of all religions and in fact are boring...that's why more tangible parts (dashain, christmas, janmasthami etc etc) are in demand. But these things have a lifecycle....they come and go (or loose the same level of significance) over a long period of time....Do you agree that Sati Pratha made a perfect sense at some point? Chhaupudi still makes sense?
I think we need to look beyond these symbols of religions..by that I mean like two dimensional tiger's drawing we show to kids so that they can understand and have fun at the same time...
The real question is: Why religion? Is there a god? Some of you touch upon it, rather blissfully.
Now I like to challange some of you great minds: We have some understanding of nature, so we know everything? So has anyone actually denied (not foolhardily) with a fact that God doesn't exist. I recall CNN interview with Stephen Hawkin's co-author (GOD) in 2010. The book GOD was supposed to dennouce the role of God, but the very guy was saying at the end of the interview that 'no, we cannot say for sure that the God doesn't exist" "All we trying to say is, the theories (Quantum and Relativity) can be explained without the role of God." I have not read the book myself, but 'is that it'? Really? Are these two theories the ultimate realities? What about GUTs like Superstring Theories? We are nowhere near understanding it....(I am laughing now)..just becuase I am eating my sandwich as lunch there is no such thing as a sushi? Sorry, I am not convinced.
Going back home....Lakshmi Prasad Devkota who all of his life promoted basically atheist belief...you all know what he ended with:
Na bhakti bho gyan, na bho bibek
Aakhir ShriKrishna rahechha Ek.
You can name scores of greatminds that denied the God during their heydays, but ended admitting not knowing anything or being a believer.
I think that's where our focus has to be. (Please argue)
If we (ever) come to agree to the role of religions, what should it teach us?