Thane,

I agree that we habitually pray for a higher being during times of trouble because it has been ingrained in us that the superior being will always come to help if prayed selflessly. I am not going to challenge that even though during such times I hardly pray and believe it is just that the timeline in our life took a turn because of various variables. But I have issues in beliefs in superstitions, fables and folklores attached to a higher being and undocumented facts about their supremacy. That doesn’t make sense to me.

Alias,

You have a valid point. I despise Hindiusm; it is not a hidden fact, but I haven’t been very vocal about other religions and that is perhaps misinterpreted by the readers to believe I am on a crusade against only one religion as well, rightfully so.  But it is because of my lack of visibility towards other religion. I despise Judaism, Christianity and Islam equally – the sole reason being their intent to ‘divide’ humanity based on asinine doctrines. My only argument is, why do we have to be in a certain religion to be a better human being?

Ne0,

You just earned me some new enemies.

Halo,

Thank you very much. I am almost led to believe that we as humans are evolved by some sort of chemical reaction, an accidental fruition that somehow made us intelligent and strong enough to survive this planet. The earth was formed billions of years ago, the climate and environment bred dinosaurs that were apt to them, and then bred humans in current conditions, few million years later only aquatic animals might survive.

Gonecrazy,

Exactly my point! We are born from an ounce of semen only to die in an urn of ashes. It is a metamorphosis, god doesn’t give us birth and god doesn’t kill us, yet we somehow believe in that asinine fact. Just like machinery that rusts away we disappear in this universe without a trace, if humans have god, plants and animals should too, even machinery should. Do only conscientious and intelligent living beings like us deserve blessings from god? I do not think so.

S_usa,

I am delighted that your thoughts sync with mine. We do not need god to make us a better human being, or a devil for a reverse reason, all our acts stems from us and ends with us and there may or may not be consequences unlike how many believe all good deeds are rewarded and bad ones are reprimanded. We live in a cosmos of billions of variables that rule outcomes.

Junglebook,

My apologies if my article was a little insensitive towards pious individuals, I’d love to say that wasn’t my intent, but actually it was, except that I didn’t really insert superfluous jokes to challenge their beliefs, I just was trying to find analogies and examples to support mine. Like someone mentioned in the thread above our religion dictates our culture, I would have loved to see if it were otherwise. Alike you I celebrate our festivals too, just because I love it, not because there is a religious significance behind it. I am not sure I am a fanatic atheist but I do question beliefs that make little sense to me. I might never be a Geeta kicking individual, but I have encountered belligerent atheists who fit in the profile you mentioned.

---------,

I am certain that chicken is sinned, and I am sure it perhaps resided in someone’s belly for sometime, only because the god was angry.

Abhisesh,

Thank you. I am not sure I believe in paradox, your case opens a whole new door for more arguments; it is based more on a hunch than any empirical and pragmatic connection. Almost like a sequence of ironies that aren’t plausible.

Highflyingeagle,

Nice song, but it was too hard for me to decipher what it actually meant. Is it speaking of contradictions?