Why I am against religion but why I don't think it should be removed completely.

We are living in a world of illusion, a dream. Whatever we do, see is through the goggles of our own self, our own perception and the worst part is that we cannot escape it. We do not know what it is like to see without any bias. Except you are a child, you will see everything with a bias of whether right or wrong, pleasant or unpleasant. This is how we have evolved and this is the thing by which we could come so far and survive ourselves. But this is also a cage. A closed room, however comfortable with air conditioners, video games, entertainment facilities and all that, is still a prison. You can enjoy it for sometime but at some point you will start getting lonely. You will slowly realize that in the illusion of this temporary happiness you have done nothing but captured yourself. This is what we have done. We are now a prisoner of our own thoughts, our own perception and it has become so close, and we have adjusted ourselves so much that we even cannot think of life being any other way than this. Our "mental self".If somebody forcefully lock you down, that's a different thing but here you have allowed your mind to takeover wilfully. You have locked yourself and swallowed down the key. Now your mind has conquered you too deep that you feel nothing wrong about it. You consider your mind as your own self. This is the biggest illusion and this is maya what ancient Indians talked about.

We as a mankind have built our life around this mental self. We do whatever it takes to make it happy thinking that "we" are getting happy. And we went to deeper and deeper mess. One more thing we invented to make this mental self more secure and happy was religion. It should be noted that the oldest religion- Hinduism was never a religion. It was a culture and philosophy. The ancient Indians just observed the life around them with great insight and sought to expand their views. India was a Godless country. Even the Vedas take an Agnostic position. They claimed they did not know who created this Universe or even whether a creator is required. Vedas only talk about the gods of nature. Their mythology included "forces" of nature. That's it. Ancient Egyptians also worshiped Ra who was nothing other than Sun. Then came the philosophies which were clearly atheistic(but not materialistic, you can call it pantheistic) which were filled with wisdom and tremendous insight. Even now people read them with great wonder. Upanishads were again great literature. Mystics who renounced their materialistic life and meditated heavily would sometimes come to consciousness and speak. Their disciples wrote it down and it became Upanishads. They are one of the most beautiful literature man ever wrote. Then ancient Indians started theology with a point to induce morality in the growing population. Then we had invasions and the invaders called the strange people living in India as "Hindus". There was no such thing as religion. It was a varied amount of culture with ethical values and great insight. The society was developed well ahead of their time. Invaders brought their own religion. And all the horseshit began.

The more and more we went away from nature, the more and more hallucinated we became. We started associating ourselves with thoughts. Religion was developed all around it. We did not do it because it was a correct path or anything, it was just that the founders of the religion tried to implement their own ideologies and nonsense to a larger number of people. Parents do that every time but only to their children. Some so called "prophets" tried to implement it on everybody they knew. They were just blind rules laid down in order to sustain the culture and people. One more purpose was to unite the people under one name. They were trying hard to protect people but they had no insight whatsoever. I like Christ. He was a true saint but I don't think he laid down Christianity as we know it. He just taught people to have faith in the God of Bible but laid down new and fresh teachings. His disciples wrote his account and formed Christianity. Then they inserted all his teachings back to Bible and thought that he was son of God. Surprisingly, there is even not a concrete amount of evidence apart from Bible that Jesus even existed at all and even the Shroud of Turin was a fake. Some Hindu fanatics believe that Jesus survived Crucifixion and lived the rest of his entire life in India. The modern Hindu fanatics have a habit, they point out every other religions or spiritual thought as having an origin in India itself. This story was made famous by Ashwin Sanghi. Some people believe him. If he is not viewed as a fiction writer, he is just one of the biggest woo-seller India ever produced after Deepak Chopra. He talks nothing but woo and his book "Krishna Key" is a guide to pseudoscience. It was a great book, though lol. Atleast Ashwin maintains his position as a fiction writer and he is amazing at that but Deepak is just outright charlatan. There is even a story that the story of Jesus is actually derived from the story of Krishna. Indians always dream about themselves being source of spirituality in the entire world never bothering to even try to know what that spirituality actually was. But, there are stories everywhere. The Zeitgist crap tells us that Jesus character is derived from the ancient Egyptian mythology. Ahh, lets not discuss theology anyway. There is nothing in it to be expert about. I am not making any claim but all these things are seriously beyond the grasp of my rational mind.

Then there is Islam. Let me say it very clearly, Islam is the worst thing mankind ever produced. And its the stupidest of all religions. I say that in your face, now do whatever you want. Contrary to what I may look, I am not Islamophobic or a Muslim hater. Criticizing Islam and hating Islam are two different things. But I am not even criticizing, I am just saying the truth. Quran has no morality in it whatsoever and contains terribly horrendous things. It practically teaches Muslims to follow bigotry and firmly believe that Islam is the truest religion and "fight the unbelievers". Few Islamic pseudo-scholars cherry pick some "goooood" verses from Quran and say "Hey look that's Islam". The only "good" things which Quran talks about is in fact so basic that even a 5 year old can tell you. Its morality is nothing more than what a 5 year old would have to say. And then there are so horrible things mentioned that it is not practical to describe in a single post. And Hadith is even more worse. Jesus Christ was a saint and in spite of Bible containing already many terrible things like slavery and killing(the level of which was raised by Quran) Jesus did a good job in raising the consciousness of the people. I loved his teachings. But he was heavily misinterpreted by his followers and the ignorants but Christianity really evolved to suit practical purposes. But when it comes to Mohammed, I don't think he was enlightened, I don't think he was even anywhere near being "spiritual". He was just a confused man and he had a hallucination while meditating in a cave that he met with an angel. He realised some spiritual truths which he never stressed upon. He was more interested in politics and he created the religion to expand the empire under one name. Quran clearly says that a Muslim is not allowed to marry a married woman but is free to do so to his women slave. Wait a minute, Islam teaches that you can have a slave, a women slave and you cannot marry a married women but you are free to have sex with your slaves even if they are married already and the sex has no limitation. And there are more than 1.6 billion people who consider Quran as the "perfect word of God". It is not that I am anti-Muslim. I like Muslim people just as much as anybody but I don't think their religion makes any sense or is relevant today. Its just that I hate cancer but I don't hate people with cancer. Islam and other religions were important for a certain period of time. Now, it isn't(clearly).

Hinduism although is very tolerant is not that great. The evil practices although not mentioned in the ancient texts were invented according to the situations. The invaders used to carry along the women of the warriors hence they invented Sati. And who don't know atrocious criminal activities like dowry and infanticide? Also the Bhakti Movement turned every philosophy and mythical figure to worship able objects without understanding the true nature behind it.

But religion has many advantages considering we KNOW that it is man made. We can go to mosque, bow down there and just feel the atmosphere. At least Muslims are rational enough to believe till now that their God is shapeless and heavily criticize idol worship. But idol worship has its own advantages and they are actually practical. For me, it does not matter whether you are worshiping a stone or idols made in somebody's image. They all are bullshit. But you cannot live your life satisfied with only materialistic gains, a time comes when a person says "enough" and he runs for these places. These places of worship have tremendous adavantages. Just go there and feel the calm atmosphere, that's it. Atheists don't like to go there. They believe they have figured it all out and does not feel like going around these places. Theists have their own "look around you, its so beautiful" logic and atheists have their science and rationality. For me, both are useless. One say there is a God, other say there is no God. Both do not know what is God. God or the True Self the one consciousness is beyond the plane of intellect and cannot be known through logical arguments. This "consciousness" was heavily misused by the New Agers to produce stupid theories like Law of Attraction and pseudo scientific explanations "vibrations", "universal consciousness", "ocean of consciousness" and all that. The core meaning behind it is actually something else but due to the constraint of the English language, they have to do it, its not their fault. But the fact is that most of the new age spiritual talkers don't know what they are talking about. And whenever you listen any spiritual talker talking about "quantum physics", its a high woo alert. Skeptics happily debunk it and spiritual talkers have nothing in defense to say. This is what happens when you mix spirituality with science. Science is a thought process and no process constrained by thought can discover what is beyond thoughts. Its not that they both are different things but they are different dimensions of life. There is no comparison between them, both are for experience, feeling and knowledge. That's all it's about. Religion tries to answer the questions which science had to. It talks about origin of Universe and life which are wrong. Spirituality has nothing to do with them, they are in zone of science. Spirituality teaches you to be in one with what there is. Without being biased and lays out ways to come out of the illusion of the mind matrix. Contrary to this, religion is actually build around this matrix thinking that that is is "soul". There is no such thing as soul. The brain produces the mind. Your "self" is nothing but a bag of chemicals. After death it will vanish and only the consciousness will remain which is eternal. Which is "neither born, nor dies". At low level of consciousness person thinks that he is body. But body always changes, something which changes cannot be "me". Then at somewhat higher level he thinks that self is mind. But on a close observation you will find that mind is not stationary, it changes according to circumstances. Then at even higher level, one starts detaching oneself from mind and this is where he reaches the awakened state where he realises everything is just One whole separated through illusion of space and time.

Atheists discard religion. This is also wrong. Everything is for a certain experience and everything is necessary. It brings hope between people, it's just that religion needs to be more flexible and open to evolution according to needs. Bible, Vedas, Upanishads will come and go. You will remain, you have to go through the infinite journey of life in different different forms and body. Its futile to stick to them. They are not any scientific books nor do they accurately answer about the origins of the worlds.I think anyone is entitles to believe whatever they like to in their own personal walls but what literally concerns me is that they put their blind faith in some age old religious books which they call "scriptures" which have been proven wrong again and again, written by stone age people out of their ignorance and being repeatedly proven as pack of lies. But instead of throwing away these books for the trash they are, they continue to accept it. Then they turn paranoid and disregard anything against it to be "conspiracies" to turn down their culture and think it is a "test", And they explain the obvious contradictions with some pseudo-logic and nonsense and easily get away with it and attempt to explain ambiguous verses as scientific facts. "Science in Vedas", "Science in Quran", "Science in Bible" when deeply investigated have been proven wrong again and again yet people blindly follow them as the highest authority and build their lifestyle around them.Vedas are pointing towards the sky but you are just holding the fingers. You have hold the finger too tight and you are not looking to what that finger actually points to.

Completely removing religion is like throwing away something just because it was not properly practiced. Religion only tells wrong stories about the real concepts. Just the explanations are wrong, but the concepts are right. Completely removing religion will be of no use. Its the religion which motivates man to search beyond without the power of science. It just that people need to know that they themselves invent it. I am against religion but I am not against religiousness.