It's Time to Think Universally and Rationally
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
9 March
2023
“When a person converted to other religion and faith, he's going away
from god's presence to the darkness of evil. Every human being should
understand the truth before going away from Christianity."
Bosco Pereira, comments section, March 8, 2023
Muslims as
well as the followers of all religions, reading this preposterous comment (please
read the full comment on the site) of Bosco will call him a zealot but are they
anyway different from this moron?
Here on
this very site, there're educated Muslims suggesting that Islam is the only
faith and are euphoric that an erstwhile Christian Master of Divinity Jerald
Dirks embraced Islam because he didn't like excessive polytheism in
Christianity. A Russian Christian priest accepting Islam has also made Muslims
very happy. Likewise, recently a Bulgarian Muslim cleric left Islam and
embraced Christianity. That has made all Christians very happy. This utter
nonsense will go on because everyone thinks that his or her religion is the
only way and others are on the wrong path.
S S Rajamouli stated in a recent interview
that the main reason for the worldwide unrest and bad-blood is because there're
diametrically opposite religious views held by the followers of all bogus and
man-made religions. He's a complete atheist and has no faith in any damn god
and religion.
British
poet Philip Larkins aptly said, “Humanity was a big family and humans lived
together/ Until god and religion came and threw it poles asunder. "
Instead of using our brains and reason, we're getting more and more
entangled in our stupid beliefs and creating unnecessary rifts. Recently,
former Pakistani cricketer Saeed Anwar called Modi, a Satan-possessed Hindu. My
Pakistani Muslim friend, who's on the verge of leaving Islam, said that Saeed
indeed said this. You all may have seen Saeed Anwar in his new role as a
preacher shaving his moustache and sporting a beard just like yet another
deeply religious Pakistani cricketer Inzamam-ul-Haq. I remember, years ago when
Pakistani Christian cricketer Yusuf Yohanna embraced Islam to survive in the
team and became Muhammad Yusuf, he amassed runs in test cricket. The great
Hanif Muhammad said that because Muhammad Yusuf left Christianity and came into
the fold of Islam, Allah bestowed his divine grace upon him and he scored runs
and centuries at will. Disgusting, to say the least. It means, Yusuf's
Christian god and Jesus failed to do what Allah was capable of doing? We're so
damn primitive.
This is indeed sad and that's why, many
sensible people are leaving not just Islam but all these useless religions. I
must mention that a few years ago, TOI carried an article in its Sunday
supplement featuring nearly 10 parents of Poona who chose to bring up their
children without religion and god. I know a few of them. They're all educated
and morally sound but have no faith in religion and god. They inculcated
universal values in their offspring and never whispered Kalma or mantras into
the ears of impressionable infants. My dear friend Zuber in Poona always wrote
NA (not applicable) in the religion and god columns of school and college
admission forms. By the way, why do schools and colleges still want to know a
student's faith? This is criminal.
It's, therefore, time to think universally and
rationally and follow humanity, the essence of all religions. But the unevolved
and irrational humans will hardly understand this. They'll continue to wallow
in the muck of obscurantism and remain stupefied by their religiosity.
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A
regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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