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Dalip Singh Wasan asked:


Religions could not reform the man

We shall have to accept that much is written in all the religious books available in this world, but at the same time we shall have to accept that all these guidelines could not correct this man nor these guidance could reform the man. People in all the religions are committing crimes, sins and misconducts found in all the conduct books, in all the religious books and in all the penal laws available in all the countries and the police, the society, the courts and the jails are full with people who are facing all these charges and are being punished.

The religions had been established at different places at different time and the people who took up the work of reforming the man started writing books or giving discourses establishing guidelines for the man and the people who started joining these groups are ultimately established themselves in that religion and they gave a particular name to that religion. The religions might had done something good for the beginning, but with the passing of time these religions started dividing this man into different groups and at a later stage they started fighting amongst each other. It is on record that most of the wars had been because of different religions. There had been conversions and forced conversions too. The people had been demolishing religious places of one religion and they had been constructing religious places of their own religions on those very places just to establish that their that their religion is more forceful than the other. The people in different religions had been coming forward and had been competing amongst each other telling the others that more good principles are written in their religious books and such things are not available in religious books of other religions.

The world is divided on the basis of religion. We had seen that here in this sub region there had been a partition worst in the history of mankind in which millions of people had been killed and millions had been forced to migrate to unknown places in the year 1947 and since India and Pakistan had been at war and they are killing people without any target and without any achievement. If we go deep this war of 1947, 1965 and of 1971 between India and Pakistan had been there because of religion and this war shall continue for centuries on the basis of religion and this war between India and Pakistan would not allow India to become a nation.

So we shall have to accept and admit that religions could not correct this man and will not be able to correct this man. Rather, in the near future, this religion shall play worst role in the world and the next world war, if at all it shall be there, it shall be amongst two religions and they shall try to root out the other religion. The days are over when these religions had been functioning giving guidance to the man to live in peace and seek way to God.

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Rose Ariadne asked:


There was once a time, when magickal beings started appearing on earth; wise ones who knew that since they came from nature and would return to nature it was urgent that they didn’t affect the delicate balance of all that constituted our environment on this paradise. They revered the land, the seasons, celebrated the Sun and the Moon and held all animals sacred to their hearts.

As civilizations grew and selfishness and greed enveloped the world, wars and destruction became common and human beings found weapons to kill each other and thought of themselves as civilized and advanced societies. They created new religions and almost destroyed the old magickal cultures.

Deep in their hearts, some of these beings still held on to old beliefs and traditions which were the secret to the survival of our universe. These religions were called “pagan religions” by the ignorant warlords who used the new religions to conquer and destroy magickal people they called “savages” and “heathens”. They also tried to kill and burn people who did not believe in these new religions and called them Satanic or evil to incite the common people to destroy them.

Further, they came up with the idea of “Hell” where people would go to, if they did not believe in these new religions.

However, magick always prevails. In spite of the greed and ignorance of these so called “advanced” religions, some of the wiser, gentler, nature worshipping religions survived. They didn’t bomb each other, they didn’t create havoc and they didn’t pollute the world. They respected the environment, taking only enough, leaving plenty for others and never breaking the laws of nature.

Wicca is one of those nature loving religions that was practiced in Northern Europe before the advent of the middle-eastern Judeo-Christian religions and is now on its way to a revival in many parts of the world.

The Wiccans celebrate the cycles of nature and the four seasons, the Sunrise and Sunset as well as the phases of the Moon. They worship the Female Goddess as well as the Male God, and believe that all of us have the power of the cosmic energy that created us. “Wicca” is the old English term for witch. All ancient religions practiced some form of magick. Most of the witches worshipped nature and looked upon all creation as sacred.

Unlike some of the other religions which accept a male God and give up everything to HIS will, Wiccans believe that the Goddess and God are divine powers WHO guide us in our search for spiritual harmony and our urge to CREATE.

Nature had to take a backseat to wars and politics while fundamentalists attacked each other with bombs and chemical weapons to manipulate nature for selfish purposes. The answer to this catastrophic behavior is simple – to return to a peaceful, nature loving way of life.

Natural religions are being accepted back into cultures as a response to the tremendous damage done by modern religions on the earth’s resources and environment. Wicca seems to be one of the answers to such a dilemma.
Anyone can join the Wiccan religion. Although there are groups of Wiccans (covens) that make rules and initiate others into this religion, there are no basic requirements to join this religion other than a yearning to live a life of peace and joy in harmony with nature.

Anyone wishing to join the Wicca religion can read and study its history, principles and practice, perform the self-initiation ceremony and start practicing the religion immediately.

Wiccans usually have certain objects that are used for rituals and spells. To increase concentration, objects such as candles, incense, large pots (cauldrons), cups (chalice) and natural treasures such as sticks, stones, wood, etc are used. The symbol of a 5 pointed star, called a pentagram is especially significant to this religion and is used in rituals and ceremonies. To emphasize the importance of these ceremonies, Wiccans use ceremonial robes and wands. There are many books and websites on the Wiccan tools and sacred objects used in rituals.

Wiccans believe that whatever we do in life, whether it has a positive or negative outcome, we get it back three-fold. This is sometimes called the Threefold Law. Because of this belief, Wiccans always think before doing harm to anyone.

Magick is the method of directing energy that is around us to produce a pre-determined outcome. Magick is a command that is directed to the world with the expectation of immediate action. It’s a reinforcement of an expected outcome, without a hint of a doubt that it may not happen. Magick not a plea to an all powerful God, it’s a command to the divine Goddess of nature who is always ready to make it happen.

Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?
John Keats (1795 – 1821)

Wicca is a healing tradition that is based on the love of the Earth. Herbs and healing crystals as well as stones are usually used in rituals. The more they practice the religion, the better they get at understanding how spirituality can restore the world. Wiccans can help heal people with herbal remedies and other holistic healing methods such as Reiki and Meditation.

Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:


Religions can become irrational very quickly and one of the main reasons is because religion deals so much on the subjective-esoteric realm; however, worst of all though is a religion that claims that they alone have the truth. And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t make such a claim! Can they all be wrong? Can only ONE be right?   
I hope that we agree that God is Love!
Moving from that premise (are you still with me?) how do we get to a concept of God wherein He decided to allow for hundreds of religions, but gave only ONE the keys to eternal life in a heaven somewhere out there? Is that not a cruel game to play?
But, if there was only ONE right religion, which one is that? Surely it’s the one to which we believe. How marvelous and lucky we are- a delusionally irrational at the same time. From there then comes the killing fields. When only one religion pretends to speak for this God, then no one can question or go against the authority that He has and the authority He extends through us, who have the truth.
Can’t we see through such irrationality?
Powerless people particularly conceive of themselves as being protected in their weakness by the power of this omnipotent God (who is on their side only). He stands as their defender and the rewarder of good things later on, after death, since there’s so little good in the her and now. It doesn’t take too much of an imagination to see how death really becomes inviting to such down-trodden people.
Hey, and throw in a couple dozen virgins and you’ve got many applicants!
Offer to the person, who has endured physical pain for a couple of decades, a mansion in the sky with streets of gold and you have the equivalent of winning the lottery- for them. While I’m all for HOPE in the future, we need to realize that there is HOPE in the here and now and it comes under the heading of the GOOD NEWS!
There is ONE GOD and LOVE is His personality, Forgiveness is His modus operandi. Mercy is Her speciality. Grace is Their plan. Believing that God created a world wherein 90% would be sent to hell forever, believing in a God who loves to dish our WRATH on whomever He chooses, and to say you want to love and follow such a Being is totally irrational to me.
That’s no where close to my God!

Dalip Singh Wasan asked:


One God one Religion

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

All the people in this world accept that there is one and only one God and we all are the children of the same one God and therefore, we are not different, but members of one and same family. This admissions is just formal because where-ever we go we find the people divided in religions, in castes, in economic groups, in sub castes and in countries and at the same time we find that the people are not one but they think differently, they eat differently, they speak differently and they wear on clothes differently just to establish that they are not one with all, but they are different people. And the whole history of this mankind is written with the ink of blood of this man. At each stage of history of this mankind they had been at war with each other and they had been killing the people just to establish that their religion is better and is more stronger, their country is great and more powerful and we had noted in history that there had been forced conversions and people of one religion had been demolishing religious places of other religions and similarly they had been destroying religious books of other religions. One set of people had been trying to establish that they were great and the people from the other side had been declaring that the people killed were great martyrs. Though no religion approved all these killings, yet there had been killings and therefore, we should accept that this man could not understand the real meaning of religion and he just befooling others that he is a religious person. We have noted that people of one religion are trying to wear such clothes and cutting their hairs in such a style that they should distinguish themselves separately and should not mix with others. And hence this family of God could not remain one house or home, but it is now divided into different countries, different religions, different castes, different economic groups and the like and all are trying to establish that they are better or the best from the others.

So the concept of one God one religion is no more in operation and we must accept that the stage on which this mankind has reached, it would not allow the people to establish one religion for all the people i.e. a common religion nor we shall be having a common economic standard for all on this world. People who are stronger shall be looting the people who are weak and therefore, one set of people shall be turning rich and the other set of people shall be reduced to poverty. This division of this mankind into two economic groups is more dangerous because this division shall further separate one group from the other. The rich group shall be established their own colonies and the people from the weaker sections shall be constrained to establish their separate colonies and the whole social life shall be divided amongst rich and poor. This mankind shall be having further divisions on these economic groups i.e. the rich shall be having some grades and similarly the poor shall also be having sections on the same lines as the people are divided on the basis of religions, castes and then sub castes. There seems no stage at which stage the people shall be becoming one and one only. The division of this mankind shall go further and there seems no end to this division and that is the reason they shall be dividing God in different parts. The concept of one God is gone because it is on books and in real and practical life, this man has already divided God into different parts and even God Himself shall not be able to unite Himself into one. We have seen this division since centuries and had there been a powerful God, He could have united Himself into one. But it is not so. There are divisions and now these divisions are becoming permanent and we must accept that there shall be another world war between the two religions and one religion shall try to finish the people of the other religion. Let us see who wins this war, but the war is very near and everybody in these both the religions is trying to become stronger so that they could establish their victory.

If God is one and one only, then God should come down and establish one religion throughout this world and the division on the basis of different religions, castes, sub castes and countries should stop and this mankind should be turned into one family and only then the wish of God shall be fulfilled. The man shall get more time to discover and invent and this earth of us shall turn a Heaven and we shall not be praying for another Heaven after our death. But God is not accepting our prayer and the division of this mankind is still going on and we do not know the end of this division. There is nothing in the hands of this mankind because all efforts made update have failed and none could join all the religions into one religion. Till these religions and sub religions are there, even God shall not be able to establish Himself into one. God has already divided into parts and that is the reason God has become weaker. Even God Himself is not giving the right direction to this man. The man is going astray and is turning this earth into a real Hell. God must stop this man because God never wished that this earth should be a living Hell and all the people on this earth should turn Devils or followers of the Devil.

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Kristen B asked:


What does Jesus say should be done in private even though a lot of people want to do them in public? Why does he say this?

The Man asked:


I know that now we calll it BC, for instance BC 431. But what was the reference before Jesus came, because at that time they obviously had no idea that he would be born on the Earth 431 years later. Does anyone know how they counted years?

Les B asked:


Since when does death produce eternal life. And how and what is the principle and what conclusion did it serve?
If Jesus was supposed to be sacrificed what difference would there be now if a mistake was made and someone else died in the place of Jesus? How ould the world be now?

Dalip Singh Wasan asked:


Religions played worst role in India.

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Originally in India there was only one religion and that was Hinduism. In due course some countries had been trying their luck to settle and they had been successful and in due course Muslims and then Christians came here and they actually settled here. It is on record that they established their rule in India and therefore, they started converting people to their own religion. They were of the opinion that their religions were better and therefore, the Hindus should convert and the people who came under their influence converted and the people who were not coming under the influence did not convert. It is on record that monarch like Aurangzeb started converting people with force and he had been successful to some extent. In due course, the Dalits who had been part of Hinduism started separating from the main stream because the mainstream was not giving them due place and due respect.

The people of India had been slaves for centuries, firstly under the Muslims and then under the Christians and when they were getting independence in the year 1947, a part of the Muslims started demanding a separate country for Muslims and therefore, they could get Pakistan and it is on record that about 8,00,000 were killed during this partition, the biggest upheaval in this sub region. We have also been told that about 11,00,00,000 people were forced to migrate to unknown places. This was the first blow to the people of Hindustan in the year 1947. Had there been one religion, this upheaval, these killings and these migrations could have been avoided. And we should note that the matter did not end here. Since 1947 India and Pakistan are at war and we have noted that all our efforts to establish peace in between the two countries have failed and it is on record that both these countries have fought some direct wars and when Pakistan could not win in direct wars, it has initiated a proxy war against India through Kashmir, part of which has already been occupied by Pakistan.

Pakistan was also holding an eastern part which has gained the status of a separate country Bangladesh and the people of Pakistan believe that this part had been separated by India. Therefore, Pakistan wants that India too should be divided. Pakistan wants that India should be divided into three parts. One part should be of Hindus, one part should be Sikhs and the third part should be of Muslims. And virtually Pakistan has tried its luck in these directions. The people of India have already suffered during Punjab episode and they lost heir Prime Minister because of this episode. In this episode thousands of our people had been killed with our own hands and we had destroyed properties worth crore of rupees. Khalistan could not be established, but it is on record that the Sikh community which had a reputation of its own has lost that prestige and now they are under the shadow of doubt. The Sikhs living out of the state of Punjab remain under a fear and if anything happens in the state of Punjab, they come under fear complex because they had suffered much during November, 1984 riots when they were killed mercilessly. Similar is the position with the Muslims. They had seen that their Babri Masjid had been demolished, then they had to carry out some bombings in Bombay and similarly when there was Godhra episode, they had to suffer in Gujrat riots.

The Indians are divided and if we go further the Dalits are not happy with India because they could not get a reasonable place in the Indian society and they are still called a separate class and people from the socalled higher classes do not allow their wards to contract marriages with these people. Even these people are allotted separate colonies and the people from the so called higher societies do not allow that their children should have any connection with the children of the dalits. The people of India remain under a fear and they expect terrorism and riots at any time in the country. Some people in India have started believing that the state itself is believing in divide and rule, the principle laid down and accepted by the British when they started ruling this country. We are allotting seats to people as per population of the area and if we find that Hindus are in majority, we allot ticket to a Hindu, if we note that Muslims are in majority, we allot the ticket to the Muslim, if Sikhs are in majority, we allot the ticket to a Sikh and similarly people known as Dalits get their own man. We still believe that a Hindu would not give vote to a non-Hindu, a Sikh would not vote to a non-sikh and similarly the Muslims shall like their own candidate. Under these situations, we cannot expect that the people of India shall join and that is the reason, we are accepting that religion here in India did not remain an individual concern, but it is now political problem and therefore, we must accept that here in India, politicians have polluted the religions and that is the reason, the same purity is not available in religions. We are noting that in religious places, when some people are talking about religion and God, they are also speaking about politics and we have seen that the politicians in India are visiting these religious places not out of regard and respect, but they are seeking blessings of the people holding discourses there.

There had been trials to unite the people. Akbar the great wanted to establish one religion, but people of his own religion did not allow him to establish that religion and become head of that religion. Then the fifth Guru of the Sikhs Shri Guru Arjan Dev ji initiated towards this path when he established Shri Guru grtanth sahib in which works of saints of all the religions was collected. But later on this Granth had been owned only by the Sikhs and people in other religions could not adopt this grant as a guiding spirit for them.

Today the people are India are trying to popularize their own religions and for that purpose they are establishing units of their own, collecting people there, are having their own religious discourses, are breeding fundamentalists and a time shall come when they shall fight and kill each other. We must be sorry to note that the Muslims are having soft corner for the state of Pakistan and the Sikhs are under doubt. The dalits are also establishing a join front and they are also separating themselves. This position and situation is not good for India and therefore, the government of India must take effective steps to unite the people of India and if they too remain believing in divide and rule policy, they shall disturb the unity of this country. Wise people of India must come forward and must see the danger ahead and they must solve this problem without any further delay. The people of Hindustan have already suffered much and they are not in a position to have further sufferings because they are already living on the heap of corps. They are fighting on the basis of religions when other countries are advancing and they are leaving us behind.

Andrew asked:


Some philosophers, like Freud, Nietzsche and Marx, criticize religion as it is. They supposed that rules set by the religion hinder their real desires, do not give the chance for self-realization and self-determination. For example, Marx’s idea of religion is that man makes religion and the religion does not make him. The man is the world, state and society. This very world and this very state create religion. This religion is nothing more than the reversed world consciousness, because people live in the reversed world. Religion is the theory of this inverted world. Religion gives the world its sense, fulfills with the holy direction and enthusiasm, its moral approve, its solemn balance, its general source for support and justification. The fight against religion may be regarded as the indirect struggle against the world. Religion is some kind of the spiritual aroma of the world. According to Marx’s point of view, religious suffering is the direct reflection of the real suffering and the protest against them. Marx says that the thought is material and the beliefs are the reflections of the real desires. Marx states that the abolition of the religion as the imaginary happiness is the require of the real happiness.

He said that it is impossible for the arm of criticism to substitute the criticism of arms. Material power can be overthrown only by the material power and the theory starts to be the material power only when it conquered the masses. It means that the more people posses this power, the more people it influence on.

As a result, Marx comes to the conclusion that the man is the Supreme Being for man. This thought wants to overthrough all the circumstances when man can be abased, incarcerated and neglected and contemptible being. In general, all those conditions when man can be treated like a dog.

John Penberthy asked:


The vast majority of people in the world automatically and unquestioningly inherit their religion from their parents. For something as important as religion, why are we so reluctant to shop around?

One Saturday morning I was sipping my coffee and reading the newspaper when the doorbell rang. This was an unusual occurrence as we lived in a somewhat isolated log cabin in the mountains outside Denver. At the door stood two attractive college-age girls who wanted to talk to me about becoming a Jehovah’s Witness.

Normally I would politely say, “No thanks” and return to my paper, but that morning I decided to engage with them. After hearing their initial pitch, I asked one of them, “Are your parents Jehovah’s Witnesses?”

“Our whole family is,” she replied.

“Do you think religion is an important thing for people to have in their lives?”

“Very,” she replied, and I agreed.

“How many other religions have you studied and investigated?”

“None.”

“Is a car an important thing in your life?” I asked.

“Well, yes, but not as important as religion.”

Again I agreed. “What kind of car do you drive?”

“A Toyota.”

“Is that what your parents drive?”

“No.”

“Why not?” I inquired.

“Because I like Toyotas better.” She was starting to get impatient but politely continued to humor me.

“How do you know?”

“Because I like the way my Toyota looks and drives, plus it was inexpensive and gets good gas mileage.”

I nodded toward my Toyota sitting in the driveway and agreed. “How did you know that about your car when you bought it?”

“I test drove different cars and talked to my friends about their cars.” she said, increasingly exasperated.

“So you checked out lots of different cars before deciding on your Toyota,” I gently summarized, “but your religion, which is much more important, you inherited from your parents without knowing anything about the alternatives?”

“Yeah,” she replied rather sheepishly, catching my drift.

“I’ll tell you what,” I said. “Spend the next five years investigating and the other great religions of the world and then if you still want to talk to me about becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, we’ll talk.”

The girls, realizing they had a hopeless case on their hands, thanked me for my time and left.

The vast majority of people worldwide inherit their religion-one of the most important things in their lives-unquestioningly from their parents, without ever investigating the alternatives. Many arrogantly believe that their religion is the only way to salvation and that the vast majority who don’t share their beliefs will go to hell. Some believe that other religions are heresy, and a few will even fight and die in the name of their religion.

However, most people are incurious about religion and simply want to be told what to believe without personal investigation. Such investigation is, after all, a huge task which most people are not cut out for. This is OK; there is nothing wrong with inheriting the religion of our parents. This is why the Dalai Lama encourages people to follow the religion of the culture in which they were raised, as opposed to proselytizing Buddhism.

It seems that those who do inherit their religion would acknowledge their limited understanding of other religions and adopt a posture of tolerance, not dogmatism, toward them. Sadly, it seems that the less one knows about other religions, the more likely s/he is to be intolerant of it, fueling the fires of fundamentalism. Yet Islam has just as much meaning and validity for those in the Middle East, and Hinduism has just as much meaning and validity for those in India, as Christianity does for those in the West.

Did you inherit your religion?