Thanks Aghati for your input.
Religions are man-made and therefore not perfect (as history has demonstrated).
Religions, sure have their positive side, as all promote great values as goodness, compassion, etc… However, again with all respect for all religions followers, they are also used as a reason to segregate, separate, hate, fight and kill.
Religions remove freedom of thinking, of universal acceptance, of tolerance and respect others as equals.
Religions give excuses to some, to behave as if they are representing God on earth, as if they know very well what God wants from the human kind.
Religious fanatics divert from the core values and spirituality and only focus on the "hardware", on the visible side. They just want to show to God that they are complying with all rituals and rules regardless how good or bad individuals they are.
Just an example (and the world is full of them), here in Qatar (where I believe most of the people say they are religious), how friendly and human the feeling is when we drive in Qatar’s roads? How much respect and alowance we give others? How do we treat labors? How many smiles we come across daily in Qatar? How much we help the poor? How much we reward our workforce? Etc, etc, etc…
Unfortunately the level of positive answers is not proportional to the degree of religious compliance…
Unfortunately it appears to me, very often, that it’s all about showing and not much about being!
Thanks Aghati for your input.
Religions are man-made and therefore not perfect (as history has demonstrated).
Religions, sure have their positive side, as all promote great values as goodness, compassion, etc… However, again with all respect for all religions followers, they are also used as a reason to segregate, separate, hate, fight and kill.
Religions remove freedom of thinking, of universal acceptance, of tolerance and respect others as equals.
Religions give excuses to some, to behave as if they are representing God on earth, as if they know very well what God wants from the human kind.
Religious fanatics divert from the core values and spirituality and only focus on the "hardware", on the visible side. They just want to show to God that they are complying with all rituals and rules regardless how good or bad individuals they are.
Just an example (and the world is full of them), here in Qatar (where I believe most of the people say they are religious), how friendly and human the feeling is when we drive in Qatar’s roads? How much respect and alowance we give others? How do we treat labors? How many smiles we come across daily in Qatar? How much we help the poor? How much we reward our workforce? Etc, etc, etc…
Unfortunately the level of positive answers is not proportional to the degree of religious compliance…
Unfortunately it appears to me, very often, that it’s all about showing and not much about being!