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RELIGIONS NEED TO BE REVIEWED

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Authored by HARI RAAM

Ages back when the idea of the constitution didn't exist, Religions did a pretty good job of ensuring the survival of this world. Now they are outdated, most of them are based on standards and laws that served human demands which existed thousands of years ago. Rules that was incorporated at the time when religion came into existence are still followed, no matter how inhumane they are. 

Today, we have religious states in this world who have their own human rights documents rejecting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We can notice inequality and lack of basic human rights in countries that are religious republics. There are number of statistical examples to prove that religious countries fare very poorly compared to their secular counterparts. The religion-induced government is beneficial only to the ones who are power-hungry. 

There is a difference between faith and blind faith. Faith is important to many, they live believing that their good deeds will be acknowledged and fear of bad deeds. The problems lie in the differentiation of good and bad based on religious texts that are written thousands of years ago. In this world, the refusal to progress by certain religions has been costing both human rights and human lives. For example, homosexuality is still considered as a crime in most of the religions. Only some individuals are open to accept the idea of homosexuality while majority still sign your death warrant for being homosexual. 

We have to accept the fact that religion is turning into a perfect tool of destruction, misuse of religion and radical propagation have led to an uncontrollable level of global terrorism. Fuelling religious radicalism is often done by imperialists which have killed millions in the last decade alone. The addition of religion to governance has always ended up in lack of human rights. Secularism should be envisioned by all nations. In India it always had elements of Hindu nationalism within it propagated and used by political bodies, criticism should be aimed at the authorities that want to use religions for political agendas. 

Looking back at time, we can see many inhumane practices were abolished thanks to the people who criticised against it, otherwise we would still be living an era of sati.

Religions should be willing to reform themselves in line with this modern world. Religions should not ask you to be patriarchal, prejudiced against homosexual people, and outdated cavemen stereotypes. I personally believe Religions must be open for criticism and Questioning. Religions should tolerate criticism. Questioning is the key, look for relevancy and reasoning behind any practice of your religion. Realism should be the cult followed, it leads toward progress in society. Compare every existing ideology that fuels religions in this world, then go for the one with which you identify yourself the most. People who stand for progress should criticize and challenge every corner of prevailing faith, after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any religious faith is welcomed.

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