It is more than pity that still so many people go to church to attend mass, to temple to offer puja and mosque to say namaj. Do these people know why they are performing religious services with so much enthusiasm? Or, why they follow religion so religiously? And that too keeping shy of other responsibilities in the process?

Some - most of them - are birds of the same feathers. By this I mean they follow the others by following their footsteps blindly without knowing much what all these things actually mean to them or whether these are going to stand in good stead in their lives. They do not know and they do not want to know either. Still they are participants of religious rites.

But the others are really devoted to religious feelings. They know what they are doing and why they are doing such and such things. They read religious scriptures and attend to the preachers and very much like to parrot their semblance of ideas to the public at large with a view to getting more followers along the lines. They are very much revered and devoted to religious activities. It is also that they are always not honest enough to their way of lives. Even they get corrupted and enjoy undue privileges.

But what do they know? And do they know that what they know as truth is economy of truth, very far from being truth. What they know is that they are serving the God by what they are doing by way of offering prayers, pujas etc. And they finally know that they are serving the God to attain salvation in life and to get the right to entry to the heaven in afterlife and to get their sins of offences condoned by the almighty.

Now we can raise some issues over some of their false conceptualisations very much related to religion and their ideas about religions : God, salvation, heaven, afterlife etc. What is or who is God? Is it not an imaginary entity created in their unsophisticated mind and not to be exclusively proved in reality? What is salvation? To them, salvation is getting respite from sin of evil doing and getting the conferring of eternal happiness in heaven which is also an imaginary creation of their own. So, they will commit sin in this life and by serving that imaginary Supreme Being they will get salvation in heaven in afterlife. What a marvelous idea to cuckold the gullible people!

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