Religion, fanaticism and secularism

 RELIGION, FANATICISM AND SECULARISM



A person who is truly religious will not be corrupt. Indian politicians, government employes, corporates, rulers and others if have been and are truly religious India would have never suffered the rampant corruption practiced, being practiced by all.

In India religion is invoked by all politicians and other selfish people having vote-banks in mind. Words for this or that religion or for "secularism" are used without any conviction. The word secularism is most abused in India by politicians to the extent of changing its meaning and sense.

Secularism in its truest sense is following one's own religion but transcending religion and administering and not making India irreligious. Who cares? secularism has been practiced in India from times immemorial by many rulers and by all its citizens as a "religion". Secularism is respecting all religions equally; and not criticizing or trying to deride religions, especially Hindu religion in India, and attempt to "eliminate" religion from the social fabric of the nation.

Many rationalists and thinkers influenced by modern thoughts and isms like communism and who feel they only are "true" intellectuals, only know to talk irresponsibly, vulgarly and without etiquette and culture and manners about Hinduism. They do not and cannot see any such negative things they point out in other religions being practiced in India simultaneously. They lack in objectivity and are carried away by their "beliefs" that Hinduism is dogmatic and progress-obstructing. and full of "superstitions" and discrimination and exploitation.

Wish all these intellectuals become more enlightened and see things with equanimity and objectivity, as they are, and not colored by their ideology, ism, and personal avarice and dislikes which are mere individualistic and personal prejudices.


It has been a tradition in all societies of nations that an individual proposes an ideology or a religion or a cult and some others write books around it. Some take fancy to it and "follow" it and while doing so introduce many "innovations" not present in the original but by force of their personality make them part of the original ideology, religion or cult.

Some others will now take care and impose the cult/religion/ideology on others who are not necessarily enthused about it or might be following another cult. They naturally resist. These imposers are normally fundamentalists and fanatics. They will not hesitate to physically eliminate the resistors to their ideology/cult/religion. The society will have blood shed and this may be repeated many times during the course of passage of time. 

Very rarely in between some humane-nature individuals take birth and try to correct and re-conciliate the warring factions. But they may or may not succeed. As long the humane people are alive they will have some influence. After their death the history gets repeated. Killings and destruction in the name of cult/religion/ideology rampantly takes place. And this gets repeated.

Mot of the times, unfortunately, only the fundamentalists, fanatics and terrorist-turned followers dominate and change the course of destinies of all societies or nations.

There is no escape from this. And more interestingly and tragically many "intellectuals" swarm around these congregations and do their best that their cult/religion/ideology dominates. They very fiercely and as fanatically as the killers in the name of their faith divide society and try to uphold their faith through their writings, speeches and all other communicative practices.

The nation and the society in the form of normal citizens suffers all this silently. And beautifully in between some scholars, intellectuals, fine-artists, scientists, philosophers, spiritual people also try their best to maintain harmony and peace through their works and actions.

This is the perpetuating history of societies and nations through out the globe, then, now and tomorrow.