Saturday 2 June, 2007

do we need religion?


try to imagine the world as it was a million years ago. our ancestors probably lived in trees or in caves. they experienced nature's power/fury and they were left with their gods. they felt small and insignificant - they needed some spiritual support. so they invented GODS to pray to. we indian have a lot a gods - one for every day - enough to last us forever - a god for every situation.

but...

we are no longer on the trees - nor are we cavemen. times have changed - we are talking about
information technology and outsourcing and a zillion other things - can we afford our religion? are we ready to be cavemen once again?

it's good and nice and safe to cling to forgotten values and forgotten lifetimes. but to drag primitive values into this age, this era - we can only be hypocrites - we can lie to ourselves and try to forget what we are. are we still monkeys - playing Tarzan on the trees???

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