THE PEACE RELIGION ALONE CANNOT GIVE

RELIGION ALONE BRINGS NO PEACE

Here is the peace religion alone cannot give : Religion alone cannot bring understanding among people of different faith but religion with God and us can

Religion is described as the belief in and worship of a supernatural/superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Down the history lane, many religions have been at the centre of virtually everything even the running of the affairs of countries. 

From the revolutionary discovery by Bacon that it is the sun and not the earth that is at the centre of the universe; nothing has ever been the same. That alone divorced science form religion . The battle against the dominance of religious authority over science and vice versa ever since was not the only battle that there was. The main battle was the battle of supremacy between one religion and another and even worse, the battler of domination and control between factions under the same religion.

                                          

In the recent days religious men do not only kill their members but even those honestly in need of help or protection. Religion kill people by grooming men and women who are ready to kill (of course in the so called "name of God"). I do not want to talk about the brainwashing by some preachers of every religion. Every day and night, people of religion kill others, including innocent children in the name of purification of the unbelievers or to "please God". It doesn't matter if God wants it or not. 

The Question is, do we need religion to have peace? 

Absolutely not! We do not need religion to have peace and to love. We do, however, need God to have peace. Yes. Even though the words of Friedrich Nietzsche that modernism and rationalism have killed God in the hearts of modern men makes more now than when it was first said, the truth is that God is the conscience of the society. 

What actually do I mean?

What I am saying is that this is the time to move every religion out of the way and bring God forward instead. I mean it is time to replace religion with love and sharing because religion offers only division and institutionalization of these divisions. On the contrary, Love and sharing make God real among humans even among those who would rather not believe in anything.

Come to think of it, every religious practice and teaching is a springboard of the religious institution that teaches it. The trick in this is, every religious teaching has elements of self-preservation hidden under its faith propagation. 

On the contrary, love and sharing are exclusively independent of any institution. Not religion, not, sports, not politics and not science. They are more universal and God is universality per excellence.  Simply put, religion limits whereas love and sharing do not. I do not mean to say that religion is wrong. NO!! I mean that religion separates us more than it unites us and as such lacks the condtio sine qua non for peace. 

A typical example is this, The Muslims believe that only the believers in the Prophet Mohammed will go to paradise and Christians believe that only the believes in Christ will go to heaven and the result is division. However, both religions believe that it is godly to Love and to share.

FINALLY

The bottom line is that, Religion gives not peace but God does. Be that as it may, it is time for believers to live above just the dictates of their religious faith and do what pleases God instead. Go about and Love and Share because these are the only factors that will bring peace and unity to the world. Don't forget that the religious institutions are also part of believing in God as long as we are not thought to harm others in anyway.