Most religious people are either unwise or fake. They are unwise because they can't visualize the evil done on earth by what religion. All they need to do is - look around the world with open eyes and minds, but – they can't.---Jiten Roy
-----My grandmother was illiterate. Was she unwise? Or fake? Did religion have any positive impact on her? I think millions of moms, wives, sisters, daughters, and grandmothers are like this. What is your comment on them? Is your comment not too strong and devoid of touch of reality?
I know – people will still say – religion is not to blame; it's the people, the so called misguided religious fundamentalists, to blame. That's hogwash; I don't blame anybody, but religion, for this. Some people are just reacting to what religion is feeding to them. Obviously, not everybody will react to the same extent, but - some will. Don't blame them for reacting.------Jiten Roy
------ No question, religion is to blame. But you need to learn which part is shuva sanskar. If you don't do that you will be isolated from the greater society and and you will be irrelevant. Rebels like you are always welcome to me (remember personally I am an atheist). But I do not preach atheism among my friends and relatives as the objective conditions have not yet been created. I however preach humanitarian and rational thinking and scientific outlooks as well. "e pothei alo jweley e pothei prithibir kromomukti hobey, se onek shotabdeer monishar kaaj"---Jibananada Das. No cruel hurry. "phul phutabi baas chhutabi sobur bihoney!"---Madan Baul.
So, please - no more blame, excuses, and double talks; try to analyze the root cause, if you can, and try to expose all evils of religion on humanity. Also, please don't tell me that some big-shot said - religion is the 'shuva-sanskar,' on earth, because I have seen enough of those shuvo-sanskars by now already. Don't show me anymore.-----Jiten Roy
---- It is easy to speak against religion bitterly in a limited forum, but the case is not same when it comes to a bigger world. You can take a pilot project to verify what I am saying. Rally against all the poojas and religious functions in your area. Stop this in your family and extended family. I will welcome you as a hero.
Let us not live in the ivory tower to show light to people beneath. Let us descend to the grass root levels and be a part of them in the enlightening and developmental process.