As I was on my way back to home from office , I saw a car which had sticker that read ‘xyz religion is in danger, awaken to protect it’ . This led me think that does religion needs protection?.
Be it be any religion , most believe in source called god. Source which created entire universe and all species. Source which itself came as avtaar (in hindusim) or sent a prophet (as in Islam) or himself came as jesus (as in christianity) . God established a system called religion which had moral , social norms and rules. How to pray , rituals , social systems , sin ,duties and many such things.
Now almost all faiths also have holy books and all three major faiths believe in second coming. While chrisitianity believes in second coming (most of chrisitains) , Islam do believes that christ would come again . One sect of Islam believes that Mahdi would come to establish just system again. While hinduism believes in kalki avatar.
So bottom lines is that all major faiths believe in a divine figure who would come to re establish a righteous system and defeat the negative forces from the other.
Now coming to the sticker. Does religion needs protection?. Is religion so small that it needs to be defended by mortals?. Also defended from whom?. One who doesnot believe in your faith?. At what cost?. Fanatics are ready to kill a fellow living human being in name of protecting one’s own religion. Fanatics believe that they are doing it for god and god would not only like their gesture but also reward for the same!!!!!!
Imagine all powerful god at mercy of mortals to make sure that His way prevails!!!!!!!. Ironically all major religions believe that ultimately His way wont prevail because in the end He would have to send someone or come himself to make sure that His way prevails and so this entire protection thing is meaningless because He would come or sent someone to show the right way and so why fight?
Logic doesnot work in matter of faith , unfortunately . Time and again people do fight in name of god and themselves turn judge to decide what is right or wrong in name of god. Slay others if they dont believe in what you believe. Fight till they become extinct or surrender to your version of god . If you get slayed in the process , you are martyr!!!!!!!. Now this defys religion and god itself. Since if god wanted to differentiate , He would have done that in many other ways and wont have needed humans to do so. But thats how religious fanatics work.
Religion doesnot need protection. It is too big for mortal humans to do so.
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Good point . You are absolutely right.
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