The Role of Religion to Humankind
What do you do if someone who is close to you suddenly die? You would definitely feel misery, longing, and confusion. It is very hard to rationalize why he has to go when he did. The easier answer to all of this is the fact that God simply willed it all to happen.
Despite the many types of religions these days, only one thing is common to all of them. They all give a person a glimmer of hope that the suffering they are experiencing right at that time is something temporary. And that life is will get better with the grace of God.
Whether those statements have strong basis or not, it really doesn’t matter. Science has long ceased to give explanations to life’s mysteries, including religion. What science did was just to create boundaries of what they can explain and what religion supposedly covers.
People are free to think and believe on something or someone. While it is not evident in all places of the earth, people should be given the chance to choose his or her religion, depending upon what he or she believes. Religion is neither inherited nor thought. It is more felt and experienced. You close encounter to your God cannot be determined by another person attesting to it using his own accounts. You can only make yourself a believer if you really accept everything presented to you as true.
Atheists are the people who don’t believe in gods. They are much entitled to their beliefs, as much as the religious is. It all just boils down to creating harmony and accord to all people of the world, whether he is a believer or not.
The same goes for people with different religions. Muslims believe in Allah. Catholics believe in Jesus. These two concepts are different from each other. And yet, there is a point of congruency somewhere. While it is very hard to convert a true believer from one religion to another, letting others be is already a big accomplishment.
At the end of the day, it is not the question of what religion is right and which one will take you to heaven. It is still how you live your life today. It would all boil down to how much you added color to other’s people life. It is still how much of a person you have become to make this world a better place to live in.
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