When it comes to religion at first I think of Bertrand Russell and at another I think of Vivekananda and Gandhi ji. The spectrum widens from fear to reason to morality. I believe all of them were equally ethical in their approach to understand the religion. The subjective understanding of religion makes varied colors and hues and even denial has many colors in it.
I think of people like Locke who did not except atheist as moral enough and was intolerant towards non-believers. OH! How fearful that man was of God. And then I am reminded of Marx who analyzed that how unconscious mind become a blind obedient of religion and it becomes his religion. Marx was looking at the perspective of religion where one forgets about reason in religion.
Religion has different meaning but the goal of human life with or without religion is delved upon by all the great people above. The idea of finding about our existence and understanding the meaning of being conscious is what they wanted. Vivekananda asked us to serve the Vedantic religion of unity where service to humanity is highest religion and so did Saint Mother Teresa. What we become as human and why become as human and how we become human and what it means to be human are the questions yet unanswered. We as Human look for causes and explanations and when we do not find them we look at mythology or fables. The real idea that every religion expects us to understand is to be calm with our existence and to be calm with our being as we are. Hinduism absolves us to next life so that we stay calm in our existence here. Jainism believes in the existence here and action. Islam gives us the meaning to wait for the day of judgment and Christianity looks back at Jesus to atone for our sins of existence.
But as a quest for defining humanity goes on we find ourselves entangled in complex question. The point is to find the calm.
I think of people like Locke who did not except atheist as moral enough and was intolerant towards non-believers. OH! How fearful that man was of God. And then I am reminded of Marx who analyzed that how unconscious mind become a blind obedient of religion and it becomes his religion. Marx was looking at the perspective of religion where one forgets about reason in religion.
Religion has different meaning but the goal of human life with or without religion is delved upon by all the great people above. The idea of finding about our existence and understanding the meaning of being conscious is what they wanted. Vivekananda asked us to serve the Vedantic religion of unity where service to humanity is highest religion and so did Saint Mother Teresa. What we become as human and why become as human and how we become human and what it means to be human are the questions yet unanswered. We as Human look for causes and explanations and when we do not find them we look at mythology or fables. The real idea that every religion expects us to understand is to be calm with our existence and to be calm with our being as we are. Hinduism absolves us to next life so that we stay calm in our existence here. Jainism believes in the existence here and action. Islam gives us the meaning to wait for the day of judgment and Christianity looks back at Jesus to atone for our sins of existence.
But as a quest for defining humanity goes on we find ourselves entangled in complex question. The point is to find the calm.
