No special relation with truth, not at all

To start with not all religions are same but all religions are expressions of power. Aim of democratic society is to negate this power structure and liberate individuals. But unfortunately varying degree of inegalitarian ways have prevented these, regressive trends and insecurities have seen to that people are hoarded in the name of religion. Fiction based identities are increasingly taking individuals away from humanity while religion driven arbitrators haggle for pound of flesh. This is now being claimed as human right. It is being suggested that religion has some special relation with truth. Probably in the beginning there were sincere attempts by some enlightened souls but now, in the contemporary dangerously polarising world, it doesn’t. It really doesn’t and the line will have to be drawn, vehemently so, and should be the immediate concern. Lots of hard won egalitarian ideas and humanitarian spaces are being lost in this religion driven balderdash. Religion is just a structure that is being passed hereditarily to coalesce people into collective amnesia and cruder ways, and is very clearly constricting the individual, very dearly the expressions that make him or her an individual. The absences of humans in the name of faith and tradition, as also the collective presence as subservient follower, is having a detrimental impact in the matters that gravely concern society and the world. It has crossed from being a nuisance and is now source of serious ramification.

If faith is based on questioning, contemplation and attempting to connect with surrounding that exude empathy and concern then it makes positive contribution to the society, meanwhile expressions of these deeply connected ways are how diversity makes it presence. Something that is followed as strictures negates this at the outset itself. Degraded ways are not how diversity is understood and if it is not protested then the intrusion into egalitarian ways happens. Religions, with its varying degree of ludicrous ways, some in amazing level of primitiveness while others atleast make some sincere attempts (influential Pope comes to mind but he is very much restricted by the very religion), is making this world dangerous place to live in, and critically, doesn’t hold any promise whatsoever to challenges that face the world and has very clearly killed all possibilities as an individual. It is route to fatalism and assured mythical end. A mind nurtured under religious myths and fantastic fictions will necessarily be insular, narrow minded, lacking any inquisitiveness and unconnected to reality while passion is wasted in searching rationale to miracle driven texts and narrations. There is no future here, and if ever, it cannot be something to savour and at some point will go vicious. It is in the nature of myths when faced with reality, it can only be fatalist. Undue respect to oppressive authority, inability to critically question devious elders, incapacitated to lambast chicaneries and decipher ethical absences herein is ingrained as appreciable mindset and tradition achieved through heavy tempering by degraded religions and appalling crude ways. 

While religion gnaw into humanity there is another deceit going on with some claiming as atheist, quite assuredly humanists, who go about scouting religious tolerance by siding, and with ham handed self-assured arrogance that comes with fluff –no skin in the game, the worst of the kind of religious expressions. Cleverly placing themselves as protector of underdogs whilst rightly questioning the majority bigots in the regions they are placed. The concerns of wide populace get diluted into the hands of these increasingly influential bigots and xenophobes who are spreading to most of the part of the world that carries much of our hope for future. While those posturing as humanitarians refuse, in their native arrogance to even conduct basic ethical scrutiny, to what is being supported as religion as this is none of their concern and does spoil the narration. This arrogant section, some posturing as intellectuals, pegs its high humanitarian concerns into the inhuman. Thus it reels into varied kind of degradations fiercely competing for space. In the melee the issues that matters get relegated. The loss is of humanity and irretrievable hard fought ways of expressing life in all its completeness and concern is becoming unbearable. What is also being lost is inquisitive fresh ways of looking at and understanding things, rational logical ways of dealing with matters. Religion is increasingly capturing the angst driven narrations of being discriminated while furiously maintaining and intimidating with counter narration that negates all that is rational about our understanding of world. Religion as the defining identity of human is worst of the outcome. People who should be living unobtrusively with other and welcoming to the needy have become threatening and cruel in a way that only religion can achieve and reason. Fictions and myths have started to severely intrude the reality. Systematic ways of enquiry and critical thinking is curtailed for total obedience into constructed realities that claims to be true since it is specially handed over from some supreme mythical power. There is nothing to offer except misery and fantastically irresponsible conceptions, of other worldly fictions at the expense of this world. They take the life out of living and convert them into scripture driven zombies with absolutely no connection with nature but an exalted place for themselves in the universe. Such ignorance was laughable sometime back but now these are seriously impacting us. What religion (particularly the miracle driven egotists) needs to get into their bloated head is that the human beings never had any entitlement for anything on earth nor does its self-conceived god figure in grand scheme of life. They are too insignificant in the face of truth.    

 Religions must be dealt severely and kept in constant check in its corner. There is, and there never was, any connection of religion with truth. Each religious person must be scrutinised, claims cannot be hid under the guise of faith or capricious traditions. If it is discriminatory, creates segregation and dehumanise humans then it must be dealt strictly as if the whole of humanity depends on it. It really does. Few centuries ago, with limited understanding of mystery filled world, religion had encompassing role, and yes also created much misery as is the case with any fiction –it can be manipulated by powerful. Ignorance is the easiest to manipulate. Religion did had an element of spiritualism as also compassion filled practical aspects to it as it was not much centralised hence easily complement common people’s lives away from the hold. It had strong element of common place common sense unless ofcourse the power structures were established and control were created by vested interests over people. But now as the understanding of the world has exploded exponentially therefore to hold on to ways that contradicts evidences, or even basic practical things, cannot be seen in the egalitarian frame of choices. It is not ignorance, it is denying of knowledge and understanding. It is a violation of human values that undoubtedly has control and play of brutal power in it that masquerades as tradition, indeed many a times it is an expression of plain arrogance that expects world to be treated in a special way. It causes dissension and accepting these in the monolith of faith gives space for regressive ways. It is like a poison being introduced in the system, as the little dose spreads it creates reaction and excites reactionary revivalist forces. The outcome is rarely positive and ends up expressions of sick minds competing for space while hapless people seek security in stable or seek sense of control through nostalgic utopia. There is no hope or possibilities here, it is barren world that seeks to push miserable people into its cold grip. It will have to be resisted.      

It is also not surprising that when a person takes religion seriously, becomes pious, there is a sense of unease and lack of jubilation indeed there is a dread. Clearly it is not syncing with the contemporary understanding of the world. It is a retrograde step that ends up in serious mental health issues and depending on nature of religions on offer could range from sense of grandeur to hallucination about after life. If you negate the contemporary reality and insights in the quest for world through religious doctrines or traditions then it is persistence on superstition and choosing to be dumb. It is a disconnect to the world, indeed to one’s own mental faculties, a psychopathic quest that in its collective form and established doctrines has dangerous consequences. Providing space for these degradations in the name of diversity is negating the humanity in each one of us.

 Psst....Caste cannibals have been playing local guardian for some time now. Without any understanding of socialism or secularism these rear end plugged showcase themselves as kindred souls and awestruck the world with liberal thoughts and bleeding diversity (they do exchange their smelly plugs if that is how you could tell). Meanwhile hopefully some of these are evicted from RS TV at the earliest. They shouldn’t be given public expense refuges. Need to earn it boy, the days of manipulations and pandering to delhi based sycophantic unconnected-to-people-connected-to-family leaders are over…