Understanding Secularism

Secularism is a concept that a government is free from religion or religious beliefs. It should exist in parallel with every religion without affecting each other in any form. Though secularism in India usually revolves around the idea that people are free to choose their own religion and government cannot force any religion on any person. Secularism is also a move away from the traditional religious beliefs that have been a part of a past easily forgiven. Secularism as we took it from the European countries was based on the simple thought that religious leaders should not be involved in government affairs.

Stating the obvious was the easy part. Now we know that when India is called a secular country this is what is assumed from it. Now to state the truth. Religion has become the way of politics. People in the government are looking for every reason to use religious beliefs to aid them further in their cause. Ayodhya issue has been just such a example that turned Avery and caused just the destruction secularism would have prevented. Another reason India lacks secularism is that it allows people from one religious circle to be the part of government. Even now the opposition has been attempting to get a famous religious personality into their party. Involvement of these spiritual leaders though is good for public unity often becomes reason for diversifying society.

Secularism though an initial condition for peace and prosperity in the multicultural society as in India is still a long way from reality. The simple reason is that it was a defined policy in the constitution for4 the government never a policy for the people. The masses never tried to adopt secularism in their life. Every place we go we have the tendency to see a person's religion first and then seek his habits. If people would remove religious biasing from their thinking no form of government would be able to use it to harm society. Religious tolerance is something that should be made compulsory in education, every child must know about every religion and taught to respect them. If we could not protect ourselves maybe the second generation can be protected. As religion has been inarticulate part of our life. We have lived with our religion and learned about its superiority to others being proud of our religion. It is this that protects us and binds us but also the reason we divide the society we live in into multiple classes. It is only our hope that the new developed India that we are imagining may be a secular one. this hope can be achieved through the right step in the right directions only.

RELIGION - The Fight Over Gods

Battle of Religions

I wanted to avoid this one but with the increase in amount of people trying to convince me in Gods, Religion and Religious Ceremonies. I had to state the obvious. People believe in Gods for they believe in religion. Such is there belief sometimes that they even want to take the life of a fellow being to prove the supremacy of their own belief. My friends say these are kind of people who will kill for any reason, contrary to my belief that a man who kills others always has a reason to do so. So does religion only cause death or is it also the oracle of doom.

Gods as we call them or rather God if You have your own sole belief. If i take my religion for example there are Gods for everything like the God of wind, fire, water, sky, and even death(similar to Greek, Norse or even Egyptian but more in number). Gods were supposed to do anything but they were similar to humans(having properties similar to them, properties like anger, revenge, even war). If you call them Gods then all living beings would be God. If your belief is that there is a sole creator that has created the world and looks after it then you may be near the truth but yet far away. There may be a single creator for somebody has to be there if a thing is made for having made it but then the cycle is a never ending one. Existence of something means creation of it and Creation requires a Creator then who created the Creator. When i was younger i had given a lot of thought to this. My only conclusion was that there was no God to start the world. Then what was there in the world? How did we or our creator come into being? The only answer is the existence of a non-existent world(A world of nothing). If I had to believe in any God the it would be a God of Nothing and we do not need to worship anything if we believe in nothing.

A majority of people believe in after life. They think that as they never received any justice in this world they would get it in the another place after their death. Then why not die now if you dream of a place so great like heaven that is waiting for you on the other side. Why live in this world of diplomacy and survival. The reason is that there is no heaven and there is no hell. We came from nothing and to nothing we will go. So if you have anything to do or complete you will have to do it in this life and in this world. People who believe in parallel worlds. Just a friendly reminder that the sheer size of world is enough to have uncountable worlds at infinite distance from each other so that no world interferes with the other.

It is easy to see even if the belief of God is established then there are various religions there to pray or praise them. Why is there a need for people to pray ? Priests say that God loves his people and he needs to be prayed; for him to help them. Tell me if you loved somebody you would want him to ask you every time he wanted or you would give him anything he wanted even if he doesn't ask for it.what about gifts then shouldn't they be given to people you love. These reasons deal with the concept of prayers. If not tell me how do you look at this world. A world that consists of poverty, war, sadness, hatred. If theses were created in this world by the creator then such imperfection or lack of control is nothing to be praised or thanked about. I would rather like to rebel against his judgment and creation and would recreate the whole world than live in this one suffering. So why would anybody want to thank him. There may be devil who created these but as everybody says the creator can only be one so he is either a God or a Devil. If it is Devil, then we can all agree on the fact that we would never ever worship a devil. Even if it is the God then who wants to worship a God who has created evil and vices in this world. He may have created good but why did he think important to also introduce evil. Is it not his weakness or are we just his tools so that he may watch and play with us. As long as i live i would think about these things and until i find proof about God i would live to be called agnostic. So if you find an answer or reason for any of the above you may still try convincing me or else just forget it.

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THEORY OF WAR

"All Nations and Religions should live in peace". "Stop Religious Biasing". "Live and let live". These are the statements we hear usually from the men of peace and religion. It has been said that mostly all the wars are due to the direct impact of the reason we call religion. It does not stop here as all the remaining wars are either the repercussions or indirect result of the religious differences.

After knowing the problem and cause we need to deal with the solution part. Is there a way to prevent all future wars ? If so then how to achieve it ? It is the belief of the theologists that reason of a war lies in the human mind. Thus to know about war, we would be required to analyze the human psychology first. It has been found out that the reason of war lies in the fact that as long as the human beings can think, there would be contradiction in the thoughts of the different people. It is clear from this fact that to remove the threat of war completely we would need to do either of the two things. We would have to stop thinking at all or just accept failure and stop planning to prevent a war. We may also take up a task of utmost impossibility. We would have to be extremely determined and have the support of all the people in the world. We would then make a group of all the people in the world in such a way that all the people with similar thoughts would be grouped together. Surprisingly the fact is such a system is already existing in the world without giving satisfying results. Be it the existence of different classes and work places and even friend circles where even the people with a large amount of similar thoughts still find some contradictions between each other.

There are lot of ways by which to resolve a simple problem but very few for a difficult one. When we are dealing with a problem of such large magnitude the probability of finding a solution is nearly zero.

AN IDEAL GOVERNMENT

NEW GOVERNMENT TO CREATE AN IDEAL NATION

CURRENTLY

i am going to discuss the democratic structure of the indian government here but as it is simlar to many nations there may be common point covered. well the procedure for elections to the two houses of the national government is that the people of the nation select its representatives from usually two parties or sometimes three. The leader of the winning party then decides who would be the head of the various ministrial departments and thus a government of politicians is formed.

AN IDEA

i just had this idea some time ago and have been developing it since.well what if the general public selects the representatives from their places so that we know who will be the members in the government. This should be done without parties that is invidual people should be part of the election not some big parties.

When these people had been elected, they will decide nominations for every post in the ministy from among themselves and thereby increasing the chances of people involved in the same department or expertise to work in the field. the nominations should be elected by minimum of one-fourth of the members to stand a chance. when these nominations are complete, a second general election can be held to choose the ministry where general people would then vote who the ideal person for the job would be. when the ministry is finally formed a final election can be done by ministry people to elect the president of the nation.(leaving aside or dissolving the post of prime minister)

THE GOOD

Well the good this new system would do is decrease the corruption and politics from the government. The person holding ministrial post would be an able and expert person rather than some politician with degree in politics. Every person would have the right to choose the person he thinks would be right for the minstry post increasing the power in the hands of the citizen. The post of prime minister and parties would lessen the amount of time and money spend on advertisements and decision making as the president can directly order after the cabinet approval rather than the prime minister sending it to the president for approval.

THE BAD

Well the only big problem would be time consumsion, the whole process would take a year to end but maybe the time taken would only be beneficial for the people to understand and know more about the representatives before the second elections. With the absense of parties it may become difficult for the houses to come to some decision, this may act as the filter as only genuine and useful decisions would get the approval.

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