The idea of this post came to my mind after reading an article.
I'm personally being brought up in very liberal religious environment and hence my thoughts are in sync with my upbringing. But as a educated, alert and well aware individual I seriously started thinking about the world around and the religions complications involved.
The most threatening 'Terrorism' is probably an outcome of religious differences and extremism. The lives lost because of terrorism cannot be brought back. In my opinion nothing is more precious than a life , no religion is big enough than a life.
Some people might think that I'm only considering extreme cases. But giving it a serious thought, on what basis a person's religion is decided? Probably by birth, which is not really in control of the person. People differentiate and make groups based on religions and caste. But then the question comes, why do we want to be a part of a community if we want to be a part of all these differences. I live in a gated community in a cosmopolitan city for last 6 months. I consider last six months of my life really very fruitful in this regard. I learnt a lot from people of different castes, communities and religions who are a part of this community. I never differentiated on the basis of caste, religion etc but I adapted myself to mingle with such people in last 6 months. And I can say it is a pleasure to know them and be with them.
People are ready to get married in different faiths and religions. But still some of them are not flexible enough to go beyond these boundaries on personal level. These boundaries are probably created by our older generations but it is a high time we break them.
A person is more defined by his own virtues and good deeds than his religion or caste.
There are examples of people of different religions helping each other in crisis even during communal riots. Those should be the highlights and examples for other people. Humanity is way above any religion. Helping an individual irrespective of his religion is something that should be praised here.
The question is when would the people grow up and stop being Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jew or Christians? We are humans above all and everyone has all rights to live a life on their own terms.
So are you with me on this? What do you appreciate more. Humanity and acceptance or maintaining differences based on religion, caste and such things?
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