There are events that defy nature that is considered impossible, is that then miracle?. If it is impossible then how does it happen?. Clearly there must be some scientific explanation otherwise it is hoax. What is miracle now maybe explained later till then it is miracle. Or it could be that we create miracles since we want to feel the presence of superior force that can defy laws of nature thus indicating its whims to control these. Thus the creator and destroyer- the god. This I find horrendous and to have this as the basis of religion seems like arrogance to say the least. Since it denies the existence of ordinary, it denies small wonders. The extraordinary miracles of each life and nature are missed in this construction. This denial is then celebrated through stamping the nature and building edifices of human achievement over these. Everything becomes subsidiary (indeed exists) for human progress, it is like the planet is a mall for us to choose from. The alienation has begun. It is quite clear that humans have created religion to justify their arrogance. Though they play the act of being subservient to supreme, what they are actually doing is serving their own conceptions. It is the ego that is playing supreme. And they construct huge monuments to preserve and edify these. Thus ego acquires halo of sacredness. Sociologists will find lots of functionalism in these gatherings but at the end of the day it is collective hallucinations, it is assertion of superego of human society. It has served socio-cultural function alright but what it has denied is immense. The loss to human conscious to significance of ordinary beauty of the surroundings is colossal. Religion is therefore incomplete since it is denying the smallness, it is denying ordinary.
In this partial world the arrogance of humans pupates into unchallenged bigger ideas of self (ofcourse as a servant of god) then the egos clash. The world becomes too small for these big egos they therefore take it to afterlife. Therefore these grand plans of destruction, this asserting of self as means of god’s will, this madness. When they resurrect their faith what they destroy is millions of small miracles. When they blast bombs they are destroying themselves too this they don’t understand since they have denied the nature, their very own origin. Their ego that constructed their god denies the understanding that it is nature that preserves and sustains this life. This understanding is too minor too simple for their exaggerated conceptions. Thus they deny part of themselves, destruction therefore becomes cannibalism. Every terrorist, every destroyer, is eating into his own self.
The issue now is youngsters are being sucked into this system without as much having an experience of life, without any awareness of self and surroundings, there is denial of choices. This is dangerous since what is being denied is core that defines individual life (the self and surrounding, intricate symbiotic connections) they are being denied the experience of miracles in ordinary. This has become acute recently since ordinary is slowly vanishing from our surroundings, we live trapped in colossal and make believe- the virtual. In the pursuit of grand even the idea of destruction is grander. If they could learn it from the diligence of as small a life as spider or an ant that there is so much to learn from nature and how insignificant we are in this vast universe then they may just pause a while. And the miracle may happen in that pause. A realization that millions of ordinary miracles surround us and that they can live and thrive very well without us or our juvenile constructions (not denying these may help in our own existential predicaments). It is time to appreciate the beauty of what has been dismissed for too long as ordinary. How about starting with an ordinary flower or an ordinary insect?
