Does God Really Exist Today?
There are numerous religions on earth and The number of Gods is still exceeded. The most updated and largest religion on earth, Christianity, has a single god who exists in a mysterious form of Trinity. Second largest Islam believes in an almighty Allah. The great Indian religion Hinduism has highest number of gods, thirty three crores, may be each god for each believer. Even if we are not sure about the existence of god, most of us believe in one or more gods and are afraid to the extent that merely questioning the existence of god itself may bring some sort of punishments on us.
A poem goes like this, men created religions and religions created god. When rewinding the history to the primitive human life it is crystal clear that most of the religions and god originated from the very helplessness of humanity. When it rained with flashing thunder the afraid man adored the thunder as a god. When he was astonished by the sunlight he made the star a god. When nature was harsh to him there was no other option left to him than adoring the nature as a god to save his life. When kings reigned over kingdoms it was common among them to fuse divinity to kings to make people to obey them as moral obligation, thus we have gods like Rama, Krishna etc… God for most of us, even today is something to be depend upon when no help comes from nowhere. If you part your lips to argue with me I would ask you for sure that how many of you believe in a God with utmost surety that there exists a god and you have experienced him undoubtedly.
When asking proof for the existence of God even philosophers turn perplexed. Some say that god is the causeless cause of everything. Everything that exists on earth is a result of something or every effect should have a cause behind it. If we go back from effects to cause at a particular point in history we will be forced to introduce god as the first cause which is not caused by anything. Another common argument for the liveliness of God is that if every action to be rewarded in light of justice, there should be a judgment after the unjust earthly life and a person to judge and punish everyone according to the deeds, thus there arises the chance for a god.
Is the concept of God relevant in the post modern era? Of course I am not throwing this question to priests and nuns who make a living by marketing religion and god. I ask this to the educated common public who are compelled to believe in God and follow the outdated rituals and unknown ways of religion. When I asked this question to one of my friends he answered me, “Why should we take a chance? If there is a god let him reward me for my belief”. I am sure that this is the thinking of the majority of society.
When asking about the existence of God, Christian religion goes on chanting the same, ‘You believe so that you may understand’. They fail to realize that it should be our understanding that is to make us believe anything. When asked unanswerable questions regarding god, the so called ‘Christian Highnesses’ slip away telling that God is a mystery and the teaching of the Church is error-less and to be believed, so blindly.
Do we need any religion or organizations to link as with the ultimate being who resides within us? Do we need the so called priests and mediators to know the supreme power that dwells within us? Today priesthood is moreover a profession rather a vocation. And religion is a business rather an emotion. The best examples are the ‘Living Gods’ like Sai Baba and Amruthananthamai. I would say the these two are the most successful business persons in India. They market the soft feelings of human mind, they cherish on the religious confusions of human beings. The only requirement needed to make profit from religious sentiments is the shameless guts to proclaim that ‘I am the God’. I ask you ‘Sai Baba’.. and I ask you too ‘Amma’… If you have at least a pinpoint of divinity within you, why are you so limited to the restriction of performing magics like making gold from voidness and collecting ash from your palms? Why don’t you perform a magic that may wipe out the sufferings from the face of earth. Oh, you have the common answer, “I am testing my devotees, so that you may be purified”. Why do you, ‘Living divinities’, then concentrated only on establishing multi-storied luxurious ‘ashrama’ and professional colleges meant only for the upper class society. Hey Baba, Do you want me to be convinced that ‘The Living God’ can sleep only in an air conditioned room on a feather smooth bed when your ignorent, helpless devotees sleep on footpath with no cloth to wear and no food to eat. I painfully warn the ‘Living Gods’ that if there really exists a God, what would be the punishment that awaits you for the false imitation of His Holiness and cheating multitudes of innocent people?
God is an abstract and supernatural concept. Human beings are not to prove his existence or essence, and we are not supposed to do so. Let priests and nuns make their food on behalf of them. Let ‘Living Gods’ establish their business on His name. We the common public is left with the best option, live according to the voice of our conscience, because the first voice of conscience is always the reflection of truth.
By Saneesh Michael
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