Feb
17
Why is Religion Important to Us?
Filed Under News And Society
Renga Nathan
In my opinion, religion is indeed important in our life. I believe in god and I always sense the presence of someone superior to me. There are many religions in this world; it is just the practices, the way people worship and , -name of the gods differ. Otherwise, they are all heading towards the same direction.
Whatever said and done, being religious does have some merits, which are:
a. We always follow a set of rules, which we would have learned from an epic which would have been followed since our ancestor period. Precisely speaking, there are predefined rules of what is right and what s is wrong, and all we have to do is to simply follow those rules.
b. Apparently, we can also feel a sense of belonging. If we are religious, we always feel that we belong to a particular community.
However, I cannot tolerate certain superstitious beliefs people have. For instance, if one considers Hinduism, many deities are being worshiped. Different people claim that their deity is more powerful than the other ones. They follow many practices such as walking on fire, shaving their hair off their heads and a few other silly things.
As far as I am concerned, it is always good to go to the temple and, – do some sort of meditation. Such exercises will have a soothing effect on our minds. This will make us feel energetic and fresh as well, and this is definitely much better than doing the above-mentioned silly things in the name of religion.
In my opinion, religion is indeed important in our life. I believe in god and I always sense the presence of someone superior to me. There are many religions in this world; it is just the practices, the way people worship and , -name of the gods differ. Otherwise, they are all heading towards the same direction.
Whatever said and done, being religious does have some merits, which are:
a. We always follow a set of rules, which we would have learned from an epic which would have been followed since our ancestor period. Precisely speaking, there are predefined rules of what is right and what s is wrong, and all we have to do is to simply follow those rules.
b. Apparently, we can also feel a sense of belonging. If we are religious, we always feel that we belong to a particular community.
However, I cannot tolerate certain superstitious beliefs people have. For instance, if one considers Hinduism, many deities are being worshiped. Different people claim that their deity is more powerful than the other ones. They follow many practices such as walking on fire, shaving their hair off their heads and a few other silly things.
As far as I am concerned, it is always good to go to the temple and, – do some sort of meditation. Such exercises will have a soothing effect on our minds. This will make us feel energetic and fresh as well, and this is definitely much better than doing the above-mentioned silly things in the name of religion.
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