23 Feb 2010 Vrindavan, India
Category: Religion
Of course every religion has people who tell others what you should believe in and what is the right thing to do. And then in almost all religions you also can hear from some of these people that you have to believe what they say and you should trust them. Don’t ask why, do not ask for a proof, otherwise they say you are not religious. It doesn’t matter if something is really in the Bible, in the Vedas, in the Koran or any scripture or not but if they say it, you are not allowed to doubt any word they say.
This is how religious people for long time did not want common people to read scriptures, they wanted them to listen just to what they said. If scriptures were in ancient languages like Latin or Sanskrit, they preferred it to be like that. But even when those scriptures were translated, they still claimed that they, and only they, interpreted them in the right way.
Of course this is one of the reasons why in modern times people turn away from institutions like that, they want to be free. What exactly was the reason for creating these communities of religions? It was the natural wish of human to understand life and to know what they should do with their lives. That is what religion provided. People received instructions on what they should and what they should not do.
I do not say that the general idea is wrong, on the contrary, a society or community, the living together of people always needs rules for it to be harmonious. And in former times it was rather religion that gave these rules for behaving than government. I believe it was necessary that religion told people not to steal and not to murder but to work, to be honest and good.
Unfortunately people started forgetting the sense of some rules. Then rules were just rules and people did not see anymore why they had been created which leads to a blind following of rules instead of the understanding of life. And unfortunately it seems that sometimes this was the intention of religious leaders – to have blind followers.
Tags:: Religion, Trust, Honesty, Life, Rules, Scriptures
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so many things boil down, in a sense, to power and control. People who insist on their rules above all are power hungry. Seems that way to me at least. Social dynamics in religion are no different to me than social dynamics and power-playing in any other arena, whether it's an office or a government (except when power plays are religious it does seem extra-slimy).
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