Stephen hawking is in news these days. One of most outstanding scientist of current era ,Stephen hawking is well respected figure in world of science.His book ‘brief history of time’ is one of best seller . In his latest book called grand design ,hawking has stated that laws of physics created universe out of nothing and god was not required for that.

Stephen hawking has had used word god number of times in past but he maintains that he is not religious as per general definition of religion. During his divorce ,his wife claimed that hawking was atheist.

Now coming to god didn’t create universe claim and its impact. Would Stephen hawkings claim be accepted by masses all over the world?. Answer is no. Not yet . Religion is deep rooted in humans and without definition of god as people perceive HIM , life would soon seem meaning less.The present religions belief in omni present, all powerful being which created universe consciously . The god in turn created planets ,humans and all species living in planet or species which once live on this planet. Every religion also has system on basis of which god judges each and every individual and depending on judgment ,God
grants him/her heaven or hell . While some religions like Hinduism does not give much weightage to heaven and have concept of re birth and final destination is not heaven but getting absorbed in god .Going back to source with and no return.

If we forget the religious divide and see a broader view on god and humans , core of most religion is same. God who creates , god who judges. So when Stephen hawking says ‘god didn’t create universe’ , most believers reject it while some say what hawkings meant was that god created a system and that system in turn created everything. The latter thinking does work in harmony with science since it facilitates provision of big bang and evolution both. There is a school of thought which does believe in this where in, god created system and formed laws. God does not break law and neither allows law to be broken. Auto system as per law manages universe.

But idea that there is no god is too confronting for human race. Belief on an intelligent power with ability to create , control and even destroy has been part of human beings since human race began to think. If we take into account modern scientific theory , human race have been on earth since 0.2 million years . Later humans evolved and formed civilization and in remains of every civilization ,we can find some or other way of worshiping. As new scientific discovery claims that we are wired to be spiritual beings!!!!!..Spirituality is natural and answers to questions like -’Why we are here?’ , ‘What are death’, ‘Who made all these’ is where religion steps in. Religion is answer to basic questions of thinking mind. Every religion claims to be ultimate truth , divinely inspired and its god/prophet being only god/prophet. This belief too is purely human and is seen in majority of humans all across the globe.So ‘no god’ theory or ‘god didn’t create theory’ is simply not conducive to humans who have grown up with ‘all powerful god’ way of thinking and being part of legacy .

Coming to larger question. Does what Stephen hawking says matters to human race?. Well it does to scientist and various people who are not part of any religion. It does pave way to research on claims of Stephen hawking about how gravity could have created something from nothing?. While for those who believe in god ,it does not matter what hawking says. Most believers are confronting hawking by counter question like if gravity created universe ,who/what created gravity?. Religion has answer to it and answer is god. If asked what created god , religion has answer to that too.God was always there ,no one created god. PERIOD.

Being fair to religion ,it has indeed work for human race. It has contributed immensely to human race barring fanatics of every religion whose zeal ‘my way or highway’ is threat to human lives. Other than that religion has worked for humans in keeping hopes alive , in motivating humans to do good for themselves and others , in keep faith at worst times , in adding meaning and value to human lives . Without god life would become too mechanical for most. We live , we die and that’s it. Our life would become mere hunt for bread and butter , contuning the species . No heaven , no after life , no reward for being good , no feeling of justice. Religion surely works and why change what works for general human race?

Science is curious by default.It has habit of seeking. It would continue to do so. It is not that Stephen hawking is first person to challenge popular belief system . Challenging established school of thought has been as old as human itself. In the end what hawking says must be followed up by scientist but religion would remain part of humans in one form or other and that too is reality.

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Swami Agnivesh is back in news. The naxal-government mediator and Anna Hazare’s team man , Swami Agnivesh sparked controversy by stating that amarnath yatra is fraud in name of religion. He wondered why do people go to amarnath yatra at first place since shivling (in amarnath) is natural process . He also stated that amarnath yatra had nothing to do with religion.

Religion is highly sensitive topic. Humans can die for sake of religion and can kill for sake of religion. Religion has potential of bringing best in humans and even worst in humans. 26/11 , 9/11 , gujarat riots,crusaders are examples of what religion can do when it comes to inhumaness.

For those reading this post , my invitation is to read it without getting too much passionate over religion. Let us first see agnivesh’s arguments. So shivling in amarnath is natural process. Fair enough , I dont think many would dispute this. Ofcourse it is natural process but so is birth , death. So is survival instinct and so is carving of understanding meaning of our lives.

Religion doesnot need logic to make one believe and in all faiths we have stories which can be questioned and doubted. We have stories in all big three religions namely hinduism , Islam and Chrisitanity about great floods. Now if one wants one can question the story and there would be loads of questions if we go by logic.

Coming back to faith and logic , well according to stephen hawkings , we dont need god at first place. For him earth and universe are result of natural phenomena governed by natural laws. So like shivling of amarnath , earth too is natural creation. So if we go by stephen hawkings theory god itself is biggest myth and concept of god is biggest scam ever!!!!!!!!!.

Belief in god or religion does help humans keep going in their lives and my belief is right while yours is wrong is too closed minded ways of seeing things. Any belief which empowers person to see through tough times and trimpuh is good enough , according to me. In end what we see , hear , analyze and belief is restricted to our senses and powerful processor called Brain. Since thats the tool , no one can claim that his/her belief is only truth for the world.  Yes it may be only truth for believer of that thought process but might not be truth for believer of other thought process.

So amarnath yatra might make no sense to swami agnivesh and he has right to express his own opinion but it does make sense to millions who go for yatra and no one is world has right to question others faith.

Personally for me every religion is human made thing and god has nothing to do with it but that is my personal opinion. Is it truth?.I understand we hear  there is only one truth which is right statement but which is it?. Well every person believes that his/her belief is only truth!!!!!!!.  For me it is but for others it is not truth. It is good to respect mutual beliefs and truths because in end truth is what our brain believes to be truth.

It is better if swami agnivesh restricts himself to what he does well and that is serving tribes and mediating between naxals and government. Religion is matter of belief and let is be so.

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Religion , the one word which has contributed immensely in human evolution and the one word which has let to killing of thousands in its name. Religion , the one word which can unite humans and one word which can divide humans.

Nothing has played more sensitive role in human race than religion. People have died for sake of religion , people have killed for sake of religion , people have done unimaginable to fellow human beings in name of religion , people have done totally selfless things which can be said as pinnacle of humanity for sake of religion.

Religion be it be any claims to be divine revelation ,directly from god. In some religion god is said to have manifested HIMSELF as human while in some religion god choose a person or made some special person born as messiah or messenger who brought message of god on earth.

The message of one god which applies to all human beings. God which rates human beings with one eye . God who wants human race to do good , avoid sins and live life as per rules/guidelines which are given in religious scriptures.

So purpose of religion is assisting humans to reach god , live righteous life and attain heaven (as in case of some religion ) or salvation (as in case of some religion).

Now since religion is for entire human race and god views all as equals why do we have fights, killings , murders , riots and such things in name of religion.

A news from pakistan stated that a hindu community was attacked by 150 tribesman. Reason?. A hindu boy drank water from outside of mosque!!!!!!!!!!!!

Similarly when a foreigner entered a well known temple in India , entire temple was washed by milk to clean temple since foreigners are prohibited!!!!!!!!. Similar things had happened when a famous heroine claimed to have entered a temple.

When I was in college , along with my friends I went to a church to celebrate Christmas. I was not welcomed there and people looked at me as if i am from Jupiter as soon as my non christian identity got reviled!!!!!!!!!

Religion fails the purpose if ‘we are better than fellow person because of our faith’ enters the brain. Ego , boasting , differentiating , evaluating , judging is human trait .

Ironically most religion claim to believe in god’s judgment but at first instinct try to judge others on basis of one’s own standards.

When Religion Fails The Purpose , incidents like above occur.

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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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Religious forums are generally last place to visit because many times two people who have faith in respective religions try to ridicule each other and put each other’s faith down.

Yesterday while browsing a networking site I came across a religious forum and my curoisity took over and I decided to read some of posts of that forum.

It was argument going on between two groups belong to two different faiths. Ironically both agreed that of following :

1) There is God who is all powerful

2) God created universe and every species on earth

3) All humans are his creation and He loves all

4) There is a judgement day

Now when all agreed where was the difference . Well difference was for who is right person who brought the religion and whose way is right.

Now both claimed that their way is only way andif one doesnot belief in their way or their figure head , they are going to be cursed into hell.

Had long learnt that one must never discuss religion and politics because generally people tend to become too emotional and close minded in adhering what they think is truth .So remained mute spectator.

It is ironcial that when larger part of people in the world believe in judgement day , why do they themselves turn god and pass judgement. Let god decide what is right or wrong .

But for some god becomes licensed to ridicule , bring people down and even use terrorism as means to silence others!!!!!!!!!

‘All in name of god’ . So what If the people who get killed are humans , so what is blood spilled in same ,all over , if he/she doesnot belong to my faith , he deserves to die. This is philosophy of some who also claim that god is all powerful and forgives , loves everyone!!!!!!!!

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India is land of hero worship. Since thousands of years people have time and again made heros of mortal and at times they have been worshipped. With time legends keep on adding with their personality and thousand years done the line , they become god.

There are endless dieties , gurus who have become god with passage of time. Faith works and it would always work . How faith works in mystery but it works is a fact .

Never the less adding to so many dieties is BSP superemo Mayawati!!!!!!!!. If Statues was not enough , she had cash garlands from her followers and now she may end up having a temple of her too .

One of her follower has asked for permission to build temple of her. If permitted the temple would be formed with her idol. According to this follower , mayawati is like lord buddha and goddess for many downrodden people of India.

Making temple for mortals in their life time is not new. Khushboo too has a temple in her name and dhoni’s fan too wanted his temple which dhoni’s family refused and rightly too.

Well but going as per track record of Behnji , we wont be surprised if permission is granted for the temple and so Mayawati would be not just honourable chief minister but also god mayawati in future.

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1) Thank God For Dead Soldiers

2) Thank God For Swine Flu

3) Thank God For 9/11

No , this are not my statement , but from website belonging to particular group who believes that usa is moving towards destruction. Titled as god’s wrath against america , the group believes that since usa is not living as per god’s law and have divorce , abortion , gay marriage and many such things which are/might become reality , usa would get destroyed.

Now this same group would pledge god to be omnipotent , omnipresent , loving ,caring and forgiving. They can quote from various things about how much god loves human beings.

But it seems their interpretation of god and his love means that god does love human race but that love is conditional one. Condition is that human needs to adhere to what they say is god’s way of doing things and if one doesnot adhere to that , god from merciful can turn to ruthless.

Such groups and their way of thinking is not new . It existed through out human history and it would exist in future too. It transcends all religion and in every faith , one would find section of people who believe in such a manner. People who themselves become judge before judgement day and pass the judgement. People who relate every natural or human made disasters to religion and include god in their judgement.

There is nothing wrong in being strong believer and living one’s life in adherence to one’s religious faith. That is matter between individual and god but imposing one’s believe and passing judgement (which most religion believe in domain of god) , is something which makes society and nation less tolerant .

Yes there are many things happening in the world which we might not prescribe to. There are many things in the world which we might think are morally incorrect. There are many things in the world which we would like not to happen again but turning judge and passing judgment as god’s judgment is not right thing to do.

The same logic can be applied to many things do. Like if these group is thanking god for swine flu ,then why not thank god for vaccine too?. If they thank god for some earthquake , why not thank god for help that pours in from all across the world for those victims ?

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No religion teaches violence is what experts of every religion would pledge. Religion preaches moral values , moral laws, doing good to people,family . Religion preaches being good human beings , loving all and serving all.

While religion doesnot preach violence , quite often in name of religion violence erupts. Sensitivity of people towards their religion causes bloodshed of innocent people.

Quotes from books which are believed to be divine are used to motivate people to KILL. The experts of religions claim that verses have been mis interpretated to incite violence and has nothing to do with religion.

Fair enough. But here we are not talking about misinterpretation , but here we are talking about a person’s blind faith which can make him kill fellow human beings for revenge ,for community , for heaven , for salvation!!!!!!!!!!!

Religion has been used to gain political powers in past and history is full of such episodes in which actual powers remained with religious heads of the state. Religious heads would read from book and convey to its masses about what is write and what is wrong. How enemy of state is enemy of god and how god wanted enemy to be punished!!!!!!!

Now critics of religion often argue that god who is all powerful doesnot need mortal man to save true religion and god. God who is all powerful could have taught religion to child which he/she was in womb. Human donot need to learn how to eat, how to drink and how to breathe. Its natural and in same way humans don’t need teaching on god.

At same time critics of religion do agree that religion has proved to be glue factor among many and inspired to be good human beings. Largely positives of religion have been much more than its negative. But in era of globalization, terrorism backed by misintepretation of religious book is biggest threat that entire world faces. A mind convinced to kill with incentive of getting heaven is deadliest weapon ever made .

In country like India , communal riots is common in which all inhumans acts occur. Women being raped, men being slaughtered and child being burnt. All in name of merciful god. Is it god that one is trying to defend?. Does god need defense?. Is it religion which one is trying to protect. Is religion so small that it may extinct if not protected??.

It is true that faith can move mountains , but at same time it is also true that blind faith can make animals out of human who can kill fellow human beings. All in name of God.

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