Ladies and Gentleman Every religion says their Book is given to then by god. If you carefully study different Books of different religion they have flaws in them. Jews Book torah explains so many things nicely but it also says that it took Jews 40 yrs to reach Israel from Egypt which is about say 500 km. We all know that there are many flaws in Christian Bible, same is true with Tripitka and Koran. As Hinduism has more Books compared to others it also has more flaws. Some ppl found easy way out to this just by saying wel, it was overwritten by many other ppl or it was translated by so so and introduced so many things which were not in original writing. But my question to them have you seen the original writing? What are the evidences that the original writing were later on corrupted by some ppl, friends they are just excuses. Now, if all religious Books were given by almighty God why there are so many flaws? If every creation is because of Gods wish then why blame other religion? They were also created by Gods wish and God wanted them to be like that, so blame the God. If really other ppl corrupted the original Books then again blame the God because he did not create enough measures to safeguard its teachings. By carefully and logically analyzing the facts available about God and different religion it seems that there is no relation between God and religion. All the religions were started when the Human civilisation was not mature. Muslim, 1500 yrs ago, you can imagine the status of the human society at that time. Christian, 2000 yrs ago, what type of society/civilisations was there at that time?? Buddhism 2800 yrs ago what was the level of intelligence at that time in terms of science?? What was the life expectancy of ppl (don?t assume that if Buddha lived for 80 yrs, which also I am not so sure, every one lived that long). Hinduism, they expect started somewhere between 5000 to 7000 yrs ago, now what was the means of communication/transport among ppl at that time??? How was the medical science/astrology/Jurisprudence etc etc??? Different evidences available to us at this time indicate that society was more chaotic at different time when religion began. No rules, and even if there were rules they were not sufficient enough to manage the society. How to manage the society? There were empires but no efficient means of communication to hold the empire and authority. So everything was undergoing construction and destruction phase in comparatively rapid pace. (If you carefully read history of different civilisation (Egyptian/Roman/Inca/Chinese/Hindu). It seems to me that religious Books are written by the Great (?) thinkers of their time they wanted society to follow certain rule so it can be manageable and can become prosperous? So they write Book, in those Books they tried to teach how one human should behave with other human? How to develop a society that is prosperous, sustainable, and develops, what are the rules to be followed (this is like present day interpersonal skills/human resources management). They were very clever they wrote the Book in the form of story so that ppl will read it with interest. But, who will punish you if you don?t follow the rules they have devised? Or what happens when you don?t follow their writings? They cleverly introduced reward and punishment system. If you follow the rule, you are good (who don?t want to be good?), you will have a place in heaven where you don?t have to worry about anything ( ppl at that time were suffering from diseases, fear of wild animals, fear of poor harvest, hooligans, weather etc etc) and there are angels in heaven, and Apsaras (they were indirectly saying to the ppl you can live with beautiful women without any worry). But the writer of the Books were equally aware that society will question their authority so they say the Book is from God and he will punish you if you don?t follow the rule (here they introduced the fear from unknown, which worked very well). So, this way so called Books (religious) got established in society. Ppl added new things erased other things in due course of time, some honestly some just to establish their authority. After generation?s ppl again got fade-up with old Book they revolt against old Books and write their own. This is how the new religion began. And they said if you follow others rule you are no good (I believe this is how hatred amongst different religion started. So, ladies and gentleman in my opinion, those Books were not given by God but written by our ancestors. And, at that time those Books were required to direct the society forward. They have played great role in human development. For present society they contain both good things which are practicable and bad things which are harmful. It?s up to us what should we take from those Books. But let me tell you one thing for present day we have different Books, Our constitutions, laws, Human rights these are the present day religious Book. By now you may have understand that those Books played role of laws/constitutions at that time. Now is there really a God?? Well I am not intelligent enough to answer that question. There may be. There may not be. Allow me to quote some from Manusmriti about women. "Where women are honored there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honored no sacred rite yields rewards," declares Manu Smriti (III.56) a text on social conduct. "Women must be honored and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare." (Manu Smriti III, 55) "Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers." (Manu Smriti III, 57). "The houses, on which female relations, not being duly honored, pronounce a curse, perish completely as if destroyed by magic." (Manu Smriti III, 58) "Hence men, who seek their own welfare, should always honor women on holidays and festivals with gifts of ornaments, clothes, and dainty food." (Manu Smriti III, 59) "If a husband deserts his wife, she may marry another." (Manu, chapter IX, verse 77).