In the real sense, it is not a
forbidden discussion but people avoid talking about it and I mean talking about
their religion especially to someone who does not share their belief. No matter
how, everybody belongs to a religion in
one way or the other simply because they were born into a certain religious
group, so if you claim now that you have no religion then your
religion is religion-less. Whenever there is necessity to discuss religion at
all, people discuss it casually in order to avoid fight /argument and that is
the reason behind why people avoid talking about it because each religion holds
on to the belief that their own religion is right while others are wrong.
What is common to all religions is the belief and dogma or doctrine, belief
is the assurance that is given to you by others about what you do not really
know, while doctrine is nothing but a philosophical system. And what is philosophy? It is just a rational
investigation of questions about existence, knowledge and ethics on how to live
or how to deal with a situation.
The so-called religion today is just a system of beliefs and the funniest
thing is that true religion has nothing to do with belief. Religion is an
experience, not a belief. We know trees by their fruits and if you look at the
history of religion you will be surprised that religion has not proved a blessing
instead it has proved a curse. The whole history of man is full of bloodshed
because of these so-called religions, telling people that if you kill in the
name of religion it is not a sin and as a result of these, more people have
been killed by religious wars, crusades, jihads. Muslims killing Christians, Christians killing Muslims,
Christians killing Jews, Jews killing Christian, Hindus killing Muslim s, Muslims killing Hindus, Hindus
killing Buddhists ... The whole history of religions so far is bloody.
That is an undeniable fruits of our so called religion of the past till
now and these shows that they are all bogus religions, fake or false; they are
all talking about love but up till now man have lived in a world of hatred,
enmity, jealousy, and possessiveness. We have not yet been able to create even
a small oasis of religion hence the whole establishment of the religions is
basically anti-love – because they want slaves, they want servants, and they
want efficient machines, not men. And these goes against the love that all of
them are talking about.
If you know the origin of the word ‘religion’ you can understand what
true religion is. The word ‘religion’ is very beautiful. It originated from the
Latin noun religio" It comes from a root of three verbs: (1) relegere (to
turn to constantly/observe conscientiously); (2) religare (to bind oneself
[back]) and (3) reeligere (to choose again) and from this 3 verbs we can
understand the meaning of religion.
So religion means: to reunite. With whom? With
yourself, with the source of your being or, to remember again. This word
‘remember’ is also beautiful. It means to become the member again, re-member –
to become part of the source again, to go to the source and become the member
again. Religion is reuniting with your own source. Religion is remembering,
becoming again a part of the organic unity that you were. It has nothing to do
with the others.
So the whole search of religion is how to get back to your roots, how to
be one with existence again as you were before birth. The way of religion is love.
Not all these cultures, traditions they called moralities, and remember that
truth is one, so also true morality is universal acceptable not different
doctrine.
