Do we, the Mankind need a religion in the 21stcentury?
My simple answer to that is a BIG NO.
Religion divides people and it was a creation of mankind somewhere around 3000 years ago in the rich and fertile Middle East.
The
time scale of three thousand years is statistically insignificant, if
the man’s current estimated evolutionary diversion, if we assume it had
taken place at about 50,000 years ago.
Drastic
genetic change occurred around 3 to 5million years ago and it took
minimum of two and a half million years for establishment of humanoids.
In
that sense 3000 years is nothing but from the time man started counting
millenniums, this 3000 years had become historically important.
I believe it is the time of resurgence of the idea or the need for some form of arbitrary religion for human exploitation.
After
40,000 (10,000 years ago) years from that point agricultural
civilization started to emerge and in which part of the world, I would
not guess.
It could have been anywhere, given the evolution of grasses to present grain producing wild cereals.
This estimation go haywire, if we assume humanoids were galactic explorers, in the style of “Star Wars and visitors from the outer space or aliens.
My classification during this period of 50,000 can be simplified in few term.
1. Man hunted by the beast.
2. Man hunting the beast including woolly mammoth.
The
woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who used its bones and
tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and the species was also
hunted for food.
It
disappeared from its mainland range at the end of the Pleistocene
10,000 years ago, most likely through climate change and consequent
shrinkage of its habitat, or hunting by humans, or a combination of the
two.
Isolated populations survived on St. Paul Island until 6,400 years ago and Wrangell Island until 4,000 years ago.
3. Gatherer
4. Trader
Around 5000 years ago trading elephants hunted from North Africa.
They were supplying war effort of Romans before their decline.
These traders coming probably from Middle East probably did not have a religion.
5. Current civilization was seeded around Egypt.
6. Theory of God emerged somewhere around 3000 probably nearer Israel.
7. Explosion of religions in Indian subcontinent except Russia and China.
8. The current working religion is Money.
There is no place for any other religion other than money.
Whichever way one looks this scenario, the final working philosophy is to generate money.
The concepts of Capitalism or Socialism does not mater if they are weighed with money.
My analysis is based on right and wrong principle.
It differs from the good or bad principle of all the religions.
My definition of Right is neither good nor bad or neutral.
In other words might is right.
Its appropriateness is to current needs and not to the past.
If a Muslim can kill another as an infidel and say it is godly thing and good, there is something radically wrong.
Killing or war is not the right way.
It is the beastly behaviour in our gene makeup expressed at random.
In the 21st century we need our animal genes to be suppressed.
The
religion originated in the name of god and good but it has not
delivered its key concepts to the current needs of the mankind.
Christianity and Muslim Divide started the Bible War.
Judaism in the Middle East and the Oil needs of America instituted the ongoing terrorism and war in the Middle east.
The
way UNO drew lines in the world map quite arbitrarily after the World
War II and made countries to whims and fancies of UK, USA and France
(Italy, Germany and Japan were left out) and left Palestine to their own
devices.
It is not rectified to this day.
So
it is time for the UNO to declare “A day for People Without Religion”
(in other words people without division) is timely and appropriate.
China did not have a religion for over 5000 years.
The Buddhism reached there about 1700 years ago and was established in there in 1400 years ago and over 1000 years it gradually disintegrated.
For some reason or other, they hated Buddhism and Ma’O Se Tung did the finishing touch.
Does it mater to Chinese citizens?
Russia
did not have a state religion for the last 150 years, after the demise of the Tsar and Rasputin, the devil in the
Church of Russia.
Does it matter to Russians?
According to one of my Indian friends, there are 1 billion Indians and one billion gods.
Does it make an Indian free of abject poverty?
The
whole African continent did not have a religion until Muslims from the
North and Christianity from the South almost by force (Belgium was the
biggest culprit) converted them.
Does it mean now the Africans are liberated?
I suppose Nelson Mandela (astute vision) never declared his religious status.
For him humanity was more important.
(The
right thing is to decimate terrorism be that it may be, white
supremacists, JVP, LTTE, ISIS, Mossads, Natzy Hitler or any other
dictator).
In
fact, we got rid of one dictator by popular vote but he is waiting in
the wing for another fling, his God willing (not any other God).
I sometime think this tiny country was the breeding ground for radicalism and terrorism.
It is the minority who rules the majority.
Even in this country, Buddhism has fallen prey to politicians with ulterior motives and corrupt monks trading elephants.
This
country would become a better place if we declare once a months a
holiday for people without a religion, just like the Poya (including
Satara Poya) day (for Buddhists), Friday (Muslims) and Sunday
(Christians).
Unfortunately there is no day for Hindus and they are all peaceful beings.
If one set off 12 days for the above and another four the Tamils we still have 14 days left.
We
must reserve at least one day a month (before these 14 days are grabbed
by various extreme sets of religious or political groups) in the
coming Constitution for the non believers of religion and specially for
the non believers of our politicians and politics.
On
that day, the government should keep all liqueur bars open for only non
believers (believers should be restrained in their own houses or in the
Church, Mosque or Temple).
Come
to think about and looking at the budget figures I am convinced
believers (all religions combined) drink much more than the non believers.
The non believers although in the minority should contribute to the state coffers by enjoying a drink once a month.
For
some in this country (not me) democracy is as sacred as religion but we
find a way to send only the corrupt people to the parliament by default.
For me it is one fool out 100 non fools who makes the decisive vote (49 against 51).
He is often the most foolish of the lot but ends up as the leader of the country.
This
is why, I never registered for the vote (over 40 years) come elections
and feel proud that I am liberated from not only religion but also from
DUD political leaders of this country.
In other words, I am emancipated by default, not out of convention, contention or context or conviction.
I suppose all the other guys and girls consider me gone nuts.
It
does not matter to me, this country is full of nutty people and they
are in one asylum called august assembly or the parliament.
There is a section in the Apaya International reserved for them when they demise.
I
wish I become the Director General there, since our Solicitor General
always sees lines between lines in the interpretation of our law.
It is called transparency.
Our Minister for Justice say hooray to this mediocre guy / girl in the name of non interference (Mara Logic Ekkak!).
Strangely, he happens to be the Minister for Buddhism.
I think he is trying to attain SOVAN or higher sublime state during his term of office.
I hope he will give up the post when that happens.
An average citizen until then should bite his teeth (not in he courts of law, he will be charged).
