Monday, September 21, 2009

Do we need to believe in God?

We all believe that we have took birth to do a certain task assigned to us by God.God has already decided our fate and lyfe and we adhere to it. We were in some other form in our last lyfe and would be in a certain way depending on the way we do good or bad in this lyfe.This is the principle written in Bhagvad Gita.
Belief in God is a sensitive topic and proving or disproving of it, reaching to a definite conclusion is very difficult.

But I am interested in giving my view points with respect to it and if people get offended by it, I apologize in prior for it.


1. personally I don't like to believe in God. It has a few reasons which might be wrong but let me put my points in a logic so that it makes some sense. As far as my experience is concerned, blind belief in God doesn't prove its point. The belief in humanity makes a bigger sense. If we are supposed to do any task which is blasphemous and it helps a lot of people in a very good way, then we should go for it, rather than backing from it due to our belief in God.

Humanity is greater religion than any other religion. Compassion should be the foremost priority rather than any other priority.


2. I have seen people who do all the malicious things in the world, that is, kill somebody, extort, kidnap and finally at the end of the day, pray to god to forgive their sins. God loses his significance there. If God should have exist, He/she should have been punished by God much early so that he/she shouldn't be commiting more malicious things and by not doing this ,God is allowing a lot of good people to be scapegoats.


3. If there has been one God, it would have been better to believe at. As there are so many Gods, hence so many religions, people killed each other in the name of religion and God , wanting to prove that their God is superior.People still kill each other and will kill each other in the name of God and religion.This is certainly bad. If there has been no belief of God, religions wouldn't have been there and hence ruthless killing of people hungry to prove the superiority of their religion wouldn't have been there.


4.Actually lots of great books teach a lot of good things to follow, but a lot of things in them have been misinterpreted and the people wage wars in the name of these sacred titles, to prove their ridiculous points.


5.If we are able to do things rationally,ensuring that people don't get harm by us, then it isn't mandate that, we should believe in God.

6 comments:

kondal said...

dude.. i think the logic is different. people want to fight each other for supremacy. if not god. they will find some other reason to fight :-)

arvind....in trans said...

@ kondal

definitely true, point agreed.

Unknown said...

nice post. the points u've mentioned do not often but very often tests our frustration levels. I understand ur disappointment at what's going on in the name of God, but, it has the other side too... lemme tell u its humanitarian side... which u actually are focusing on.
as u see... people make a very huge amount of donations in the name of God. also, many religious activities help feed the hungry. this concept of God makes some business too... based on which a large number run their family... so keep this in mind and find if it as bad as u formed in ur mind?
only thing is... good and bad lives together... whr in the bad side here is what u mentioned in ur post. but this happens everywhere. good and bad lives together... its just how u handle it. ;)

arvind....in trans said...

@ alochana

yeah...true.... :)

Unknown said...

while one is definitely true and the other is true, why do u have those view points? ;)

AFAQ said...

What I like about Rahul is he argues in the same way as the article is written... If given stats he will provide different stats, if argued scientifically he will argue scientifically,... lol

About this article:
1.Compassion, humanity and justice is what God teaches humans, but it is human who transgress. So Not believing in Him is no way going to increase humanity among ppl.
2.People kill and ask for forgiveness at the end of the day. Somebody who dont believe in God, kill and at the end of the day kills again. So Not believing in God is not going to solve the problem, in fact, Believing in God brings a moral conduct among many people if not all.
3.There IS only one God, people have made fake Gods for business, selfish purposes and these purposes urges them to kill each other, not religion. All the riots that happen in the world simply use religion but actual motto behind them is selfish needs of the politicians.
4.Agreed on point 4, but that is not a reason for not believing in God.
5.You harm somebody or dont harm anybody, there is never a mandate to "believe" in God. The word "believe" is relative, so there can never be a mandate on belief. Point is how we choose our beliefs.