SEVERAL WORDS ON RELIGION

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Notably there are four major religions in the world, namely they are: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam. Each religion has a lot of determined and staunch followers. Each one has a great influence on nearly everything and everyone in the world.

In history all religion stemmed from a concealed attempt to control the poor people, since obviously so few people in each country are literate. All those cultured and educated became the supporters of the regime. In order to prove their value in the eye of the rulers, they created religion to deceive the people into submission to their fate and wait only for the days of atonement to come. Look through any doctrines of religion and you will inevitably find that what we are supposed to do is admit, be obedient, or submit to any sufferings or hardships. Whatever attempts to revolt will incur greater reprisal. So, what are we, the subjects expected to do? One word to cover all, it is to “submit”. That is why in history all the people were submissive until they couldn’t stand up to the heavy burden any more and they rose to demand for their rights. All in all, to various rulers in different countries, they found that religion was the best tool to employ to enable them to fool and therefore to rule the people better. Needless to say, this is the negative impact of religion upon the development of the world.

“If someone slaps you on the right cheek, show him the other.” That is what is preached in Bible. I have read most of the Bible and I simply feel I am overawed by the intimidation of the merciless, omnipresent and omnipotent god, or I am simply intimidated. This decree can better exemplify what an action we should take in face of invasion.

“We have been born to suffer in the mundane world.” “It is only after a long suffering when we are alive that we can get atonement when we die.” Sheer nonsense. After death what will happen to us? Who knows? Buddhism has in the same way, created a life after death for us to wish for.

For Islam I know very little since I don’t know the language. However, I saw people who prayed with the Koran in hand for mercy in films and books. I found the scenes were ridiculously the same for every cornered man to beg uselessly.

The core of the religion is the same: only by submission to fate in this life can they get the atonement in the other world, whether there is such a world notwithstanding. There is no need for the rulers to submit to fate. Even if they are asked to, they would unconditionally do as required, to submit to a lifelong extravagant lifestyle and then die the same as their subjects. It is only the ruled who need to submit to the rule of the rulers. They are supposed to consecrate everything that they have access to to the rulers to satisfy their avaricious desires.

Nevertheless, except its “anesthetic” use to dumb the subjects, every religion has something active in the healing the people’s wounds, especially in the modern world. In Bible, for example, there are a lot of things that are noteworthy for their use, in mental therapy in particular. Whenever we have gnawing secrets in mind that is hardly possible to tell others, we may go to the church to speak out, as a release of our mental burden. What is more, people are told to forgive, to be friendly to others, to be tolerant, not to steal, not to be hostile to our neighbors, and not even to commit adultery, etc. I think these decrees are of special use to people.

So, like everything in the world, religions, have their both active and negative effects upon the people. What is the most important, in the modern world, religions’ use as a narcotic means to cheat us has been waning, and its use of mental comforts is growing. And that is just the reason why I like religion now.