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My views on God and religion

 

 

The existence of a Higher Being, whom we commonly refer to as God, has always been a highly debated topic. On one hand are the religious people, firmly believing that God is watching over us from the heavens. On the other hand are the nonbelievers, skeptics and rationalists, persistently stating the absence of any concrete evidence to ascertain that God is real. This causes me to ponder upon what Friedrich Nietzsche once said – “Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?”

 

The purpose of religion is to serve as a spiritual medium through which man can aspire to attain nirvana, to unite with the Almighty. Unfortunately though, it has indirectly become a major cause for strife the world over. A large number of people tend to misinterpret the norms of their religion, for the worse. This leads to misunderstanding between people of various faiths and communities. If a religion decrees to its followers to worship and believe in only one God, they turn hostile towards other religions. All the terrorists out there were just like you and me before being brainwashed by certain anti-social individuals into believing that it was their duty to fight, and even slaughter, to appease their God. As Blaise Pascal once remarked – “Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions”. What they forget is that their religion also preaches non-violence. In fact, every religion condemns hatred and violence. We fight over our Gods but fail to realize that all of us just have different names for the same universal God.

 

God, to me, is an acronym for Generator Operator Destroyer. I believe God is essentially all the unbalanced energy of the universe – the energy difference between what we do and what we get. And this is why all our deeds, good or bad, come around back to us in a full circle through some form or the other. We learn in high school physics that if we perform positive work on a body, energy gets stored in it, and it loses energy if we do negative work on it. This is somewhat similar to our situation. Do a good turn and you can expect one in return. A simple act of kindness or humanity sows the seeds of goodwill, just like performing positive work on something causes it to gain energy. All the energy of the cosmos is conserved, and all the unbalanced energy between our actions and the consequences we immediately face is what constitutes God – the driving force of the universe. God is the creator, preserver and destroyer of everything in this universe.

 

The world would be so much better and peaceful if instead of fighting over our religions, we learned to live with brotherhood and global harmony. It hardly matters whether or not you believe in God or religion. You might be an extremely religious person or you might be an atheist but, in the end, what really matters is whether you have been a good human being.