God is a mistake.

I was replaying emails on busy working day afternoon and I was disturbed by an sms informing about the serial bomb blasts in Banglore. The 1st things that came to mind was to check my friends were all right but I learned from internet that only 2 were dead so I didn’t bother calling. The 2nd thought that came to my mind: It must be SIMI. Student's Islamic Movement of India. The moment there is a religious word in the name of organization I don’t like it… there is a reason. Vishwa Hindu Parishad was responsible for riots at some point of time too!

God is the concept that gives birth to religion. If I hear of one person who has been helped by god and made his life easy, I hear of hundreds dead every month in the name of religion. Religion can even make a particular community vulnerable - I believe it is not safe for Buddhists to live in Afganistan. What the fuck is happening in the name of religion? Sania Mirza is not allowed to ware short skirts, Afghani females can’t take part in Olympic, millions of females are treated like slaves through their lives and are not supposed to be superior to men in any way, thousands of fine young men bleed till death in the name of jihad, WTC tragedy and the list is endless! Thankfully we are over that ‘sati’ thing… the ritual created to ensure that man can be sure his wife doesn’t make out with anyone else once he is dead. All in the name of religion. All in the name of god. Would you still be annoyed by me if I say - all in the name of fucking religion/god?

Some people believe that the concept god is responsible for maintaining peace in this world. It prevents people from committing sins like rape, murder, robbery etc. Well, how about answering Dawkins’s question: “Will it make easier to kill someone if you realise that there is no God?” Think about it. I seriously don’t think god or religion is the concept that stops us from killing someone. It is our values. Ironically people do kill in the name of religion, don’t they?

Now that we are talking about killing people, lets talk about atheists. I being an atheist am not a supporter of atheism however: Atheists don’t kill and execute mass bloodshed in the name of atheism! I believe probability of not being a killer is higher in case you are an atheist.

I think religion is national waste of time. In case millions of people around the world substitute average 10 minutes of prayer with 10 minutes of cardio, the number of people suffering from metabolic disorders will come down drastically. Wait a sec, may be we should consider this for a while, its not only national waste of time, it is a psychological disease! Religion is a disease passed on from one generation to the next. Religion is the thing that makes us think in wrong directions: Shaping minds of Muslim children in religious school to make them believe that there is nothing more important than religion. Nothing else! I still remember one of the production managers lost the job because there was fire in a solvent industry (2 workers burned) and he was busy doing prayer at 2pm somewhere else. This guy also has done the same mistake his father did: putting young sons and daughters in Islamic school. Try searching for the videos of children talking about religious stuff at 5 years of age on youtube… its disgusting. It is nothing else but child abuse.

On the other end I agree with Dawkins that Atheism is good. It is a symbol of free and healthy state of mind. Atheist has a mind that is free from delusions that come with religion. Atheists approach everyday life with an open state of mind and do what is logical and practical. If I have to answer why atheism is considered taboo in conservative society – its like excessive attention to fostering fanaticism, encouraging bigotry against homosexuals, and influencing society in other negative ways. Whoever is atheist, lets be proud of ourselves as we have better set of values. We don’t murder in name of atheism.

I might have wounded the religious feelings of the readers but that is not what I wanted. For a moment, imagine the world free from religion: No riots in name of god, no slaughter. Lack of religion would have made people invest time in creative things and many third world countries would have emerged as developing ones. Indira Gandhi would have been alive, Nature’s heaven – Kashmir would have been peaceful and World Trade Center would have been standing tall.

God is a mistake we made centuries ago. Take a step to correct it; don’t tell your sons and daughters which religion they belong to. Please give them back to humanity.

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This post is deeply inspired by the immoral acts in the name of religion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion