HAS RELIGION FAILED......?

What is Religion? Is it what we do in temple,church or mosque?
If that is our perception of religion then we are destined to
feel that religion has failed in the matter of serving mankind.

What we need is "true" perception of religion which we lack
because our perception of religion is largely not 'OUR' perception.
It is, in fact, "pasted" perception that we inherit from our parents
in the same manner as they did from their parents.
Where & how this wrong perception evolved may not be a simple thing
to work out. I think that in the ancient times the concept of
religion evolved along with that of God as a result of our failure
in understanding the SECRETS OF NATURE.This concept later got
distorted form which I call "PASTED".Who did it?Perhaps...some smart
and power-hungry people created this picture in the background of
mythological incidences.These people were well aware of common
man's weakness regarding God & Religion.

What was the purpose? The creation of such distorted perception
helped those so-called mentors of religion in establishing their
dominance over a great number of people whom they rule in the name
of spirituality.So, in addition to political kings we were and are
ruled by SPIRITUAL KINGS.Several such groups of people evolved with
different labels which we term RELIGION.And so ... we have different
forms of religion in different corners of the world.If we are
talking about these'labelled' religions which dominate both our
brains and hearts,then of course...the religion has failed.

Our perception of religion is such that we cannot imagine the
existence of only ONE RELIGION.This existence of many religions may,
in future,prove disastrous for our own existence as TRUE HUMANS.
These religions, largely having mythological background for their
evolution,have instead of creating one UNITED world,divided God's
world in small religion-based 'worlds'. Much of the attention of
the so-called religious leaders is concentrated on establishing
their supremacy over people. In doing so,they create an atmosphere
of hatred in the minds of a group for another group which does not
follow their religion.We are facing the consequences of such non-
religious attitude in the form of terrorism,communal riots,and
even wars making our lives insecure.

Does religion allow us to kill our neighbour if he does not belong
to our religion? Are killings by terrorists justified by proclaiming
that what was done had been done to protect the Religion?Can the
protection of religion require guns,bombs,missiles...? All this
messing up has been created due to the existence of more than ONE
RELIGION.Different religions are based on different Schools of Thought
and we have to develop an attitude of FULL TOLERANCE towards the
people not following our School of Thought.But most of us in today's
world have been educated to develop a psychology of INTOLERANCE by
so-called fanatic and fundamentalist religious leaders and their
agents.If what we refer to as religion is "MY RELIGION" and "YOUR
RELIGION" instead of"OUR RELIGION" then...the religion has failed...

Get rid of so called myopic religious leaders;think what religion
really is or ask yourself a question: Do I follow the TRUE RELIGION?
Introspect... you may find the answer...

The true Religion has been overshadowed by PROFESSIONAL RELIGIONS
and hence the feeling that the religion has failed...

In fact,we have failed...because we have trapped ourselves in that
myopic philosophy of a few so-called pseudoreligious people who
have mesmerised our minds and shrunk our power of RATIONAL THINKING.