Marketing
of a religion -
We
see in the Christianity, they call Christ a shepherd and the faithful
as ship; this comparison shows that since the beginning the advocates
of these religions knew what they are doing. This metaphor shows that
the priest is the shepherd and the followers are lamb. Apparently,
this may look very innocent way of expressing the duty of the priest
but the callousness becomes clear if we see to that in that
perspective. The callousness is in condemning the faithful as lamb!
I
realized after much study that this business of religion is the need
of people and so far people want to be fooled this business of
religion shall continue. However, I noticed one very interesting
thing about the priests of these religions. This becomes very obvious
when two priests of two different religions are engaged in the
attempt to drag folks to their religion. I have seen some catholic
priests from Kerala (in India) advocating to the ordinary folks that
their God is better than the God of other religion is. This reminded
me of a market competition where salesperson of one cloth mill was
advocating to the customers that the cloth of his mill is better than
that of the other mill. Condemning gods of other religion is the
common strategy of most priests. Over a period, religion becomes part
of believer’s pride and then matters become easy for the priests to
manage them. The followers of that religion eventually join the
priests in condemning gods of other religions. According to science
of psychology human being is protective of his ego; whatever is
attached to that becomes part of that ego and then the person
continues to identify him/her with that thing, whatever it may be, a
religion, a language, nation, community almost anything. This
principal becomes applicable in this case; and people who have
attached their ego to a religion begin to behave very possessive
about it.
This
clearly shows that for these priests all gods are not the same entity
but different. Therefore, we should understand that a god of a
religion is a proprietary thing and that god is not the God that true
spiritualists talk of or the God that our sciences can accept. True
spiritualists insist that, there is only one Almighty, but when we
see these religions and teachings they profess, we have to accept
that that god of that religion is not the Almighty of the true
spiritualists. A spiritualist told me that if somebody says, his god
is better than any other god is; then know for sure that he does not
know what is true GOD. If we accept this observation, we have to
admit that priest of religions do not know of the real God. This also
explains that true spiritualism has no relation with any religions
and that the spiritualism of which religions and their priests talk
is pseudo spiritualism. All claims made by priests of these religions
are false. Ironically, however, all priests of all religions insist
that their god is the GOD, Almighty, and condemn other gods as pagan
gods. In the last post, I have said that Mother Nature is the true
impression of GOD and to understand the true GOD we should understand
the working of the Mother Nature. We also know that to understand
Mother Nature you have to study various sciences. This automatically
leads us to accept that to understand true GOD we have to go through
the path of science. In other words, GOD is a way to personify
Mother Nature and that may be the reason why in Hinduism the GOD
shown as female. The scientists have been trying to prove the
existence of GOD but so far, they have not done it. We shall see the
reason for that later in the discussion that follows.
When
I studied Hinduism and the mythology thereof, found that several gods
fight with each other while many gods join to form groups to fight
other gods also call them demon or daytya (Demon) or pagan gods. This also
better explained by the above given theory. Hinduism is collection of
many ancient religions from the region that spread over ancient
Persia and ancient India. The process of assimilation becomes clear
from the stories in the Puranas (Hindu mythology). Over the period,
these local religions belonging to several different tribes merged
into one mega system, what today we call Hindu religion or Hindu
religion-family. This also explains why we have so many gods in this
religion. Today people worship all these gods with equal respect not
knowing whether the god they worship belonged to their tribe
(ancestors) or not. The feeling that we are of different tribes has
disappeared altogether. However, priests of these different religions
do not seem to have forgotten and so we still have cults professing a
particular god above other in that cult. For example, Shaivaites
prefer Shiv or Shankar as the prime God, Vaishnavaites prefer Vishnu
and so on. This mentality of priests, commonly Hindus refer to as
Brahmanism. General public of Hindu religion do not bother for the
propaganda of these priests (Brahmans) and continue to worship all of
them on par. This mentality of Indians has saved this religion for
all these years. This had caused existence of many cults in the Hindu
religion-family. Today we see Hindus wanting to pray for Christ and
also Allah on par with other established gods. If this process
continues and I know that it shall continue, we shall see that
Christianity and Islam will gradually merge into the mega Hindu
religion-family. I feel this is a specialty of Indian people that
they can merge various religions with ease. In no other place in the
world, we see this merger, taking place. In all other religions, they
aim at destroying other religions after conquering that tribe.
Preachers of Islam and Christianity in India are trying their best to
separate their religions from the process of merger but I do not see
any success they get. Unfortunately, I also notice that Brahmans are
also trying to discourage this process by talking of things like Ram
Jama Bhoomi and such many things. Finally, these two religions shall
merge as all other merged and we shall have Hinduism with two more
gods and that is all to happen in the near future. This process of
merger deserves some elaborate observation to understand it. Hinduism
is a melting pot of all religions. Or you may call it master solvent
of all faiths. After melting, what remains is refreshed new Hinduism!
This process of refreshing and remolding of religion, not found in
any other religion. We see that in all other measure religions this
process of evolution does not exist. In other religions such as
Islam, Judaism and Christianity, also, we see cults but they exist
because at, some point of time back in the history, priests of that
religion deferred amongst them and broke apart. After that
separation, each group began to propagate for their cult and we see
different cults immersing from that. This we can explain as the
effect of business rivalry amongst the groups of priests in sharing
the faithful. We see these cults fight with each other to establish
their hold on the people while they use the same god to attract the
faithful. Best examples we see is that of Sunni and Shia cults in
Islam, Protestants and Catholic in Christianity. Interesting enough,
we also see that they try to convert people of one cult to other cult
within the same religion. The vehemence with which priests of one
cult tries to convert is remarkable. This eventually exposes the fact
that these religions are business proposals. Protestants hate
Catholics and Catholics condemn Protestants. Sunnis want to kill Shia
and Shia want to annihilate Sunni. Where is solemn religion in them;
we cannot see.
When
you will study any religion, please take note of these things and
examine that religion as a tool for the conquerors. You will have a
very different picture before you of that religion. We often take a
religion emotionally, however, take it with logical precision without
getting any emotional and we shall get a very different picture of
that religion. You may distinguish gods of these religions and in
that; you will see the identity of the foster society who spread that
religion. Most Europeans do not know of their original religion that
the conquering Church of Rome destroyed. If they realize that they
had a beautiful tradition of their truly European religion they will
come to know how an alien religion can do damage to any good faith by
merely conquering them. When I studied the propaganda of the Church
of Rome against the original religion of the Europeans, it clearly
showed to me that they condemned that religion for something in it
while the same things were continuing in their Christianity. The
Church condemned their gods as pagan gods, vis-à-vis Christ. One
should understand, that could be said of Christ as well! Who decides
what god is pagan and what god is not? Today these Europeans are
spreading the religion of their yesteryears’ conquerors. All these
things make me wonder how a human society a religion can change for
the better of for the worst. History is full of episodes detailing
how different religions through their priests caused killing of
innocent people in the name of their god! There is enough record of
Cruelty of priests in history and in spite of that, they claim to
talk and preach of peace, mercy and compassion and in the name of
that god! Jesuit Xavier whom The Church of Vatican declared a saint
had killed (burning them on a fire lit on a big pyre) thousands of
Hindus and Chinese to forcibly convert them! This is the business of
religion. AlQaeda and many Ulema continuously claim of preaching the
Islam as the symbol of peace; all know their killing. With all that,
they say Islam means peace! To add to AlQaeda are now Islamic State,
killing Shia because they are not accepting Sunni cult, while both
are Islamic as they claim!
The
smart persons (they are the prophets of those religions) of the
bygone period, invented religions we practice today, but that was the
need of those ignorant people who were afraid of Mother Nature. At
present, we know Mother Nature better by the development of sciences;
so what is the need for these religions in today’s context? Do we
need miracle maker priests? We have magicians to fill the gap and
replace them; do not you agree? Today, instead of a religion based on
some fantastic notions (myths) we should accept sciences such as
spiritualism, moral science, Yoga and ethics. Leave customs and
ensuing culture to the people as per their choice. Religions of today
are like spent batteries, who do not give any power. They only create
problems for peace loving people.
Whenever
scientists try to establish relation between science and God they
fail to do it because most scientists are from Christian or Jew
background. Those gods, as we have seen, are proprietary gods
belonging to those religions with their pseudo philosophy and equally
pseudo spiritualism. When true GOD represented by not any religion
but only Mother Nature replace them, we can see a clear relation in
science and GOD. This makes it easy to understand the relation
between true spiritualism and science. Only Mother Nature represents
true GOD that, never found in any religion. Amongst all religions, I
saw that only Hinduism refers to this relation between Mother Nature
and GOD. All other religions are nothing but business of those
priests. We consider for a while, that if priesthood removed, what
will happen of that religion? That religion shall cease to continue.
There are many examples to prove this in history. Many ancient
religions were lost as the priesthood professing that left that
religion. Example in point is of Roman religion. As the Roman rule
was demolished by marauders from North Europe, destroying power of Caesar; priests of Roman
religion surreptitiously grabbed new found faith of Jesus and formed
their Church of Rome and their interpretation of Christianity. They
wrote Bible of their choice. Their business has flourished that we
see today! This shows that a religion without priesthood is not
possible. In this regard, we will see Hinduism appears to be an
exception to this rule because even when Brahmans stopped performing,
the people of Hindu faith continued without them. We shall see more
on business of religion in next post.
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