Couple of weeks ago returning from the City and getting out of the train station near home, I got followed by two young Asian looking boys. I was surprised when they asked how I was doing and where I was headed, out of blues. I did not find their approach threatening or unfriendly, just peculier. It turns out these teenagers in school uniforms were from Taiwan! They were here to preach about their 'holy ghost'. I was kinda stunned. After talking to them who sent them here, they talked about their 'mission' which at the rock bottom is to convert people to their religion. I was talking to young recruets of religious evangelists sent from oceans away. All I could tell them was go back to school and spend time learning something useful.
The incident made me think, and reflect. I have seen young boys addicted to stuffs but this seemed bizarre, I was shaking my head. Young evangelists, mercenaries. Their beliefs in Holy ghost appeared so profound they appeared almost hypnotized.
These boys seemed to think that they have somehow found a 'direct line' to hear back from God. That they receive some special broadcasts that are not available to others. Feeling of being a spcial one, a chosen one?? Made me wonder, observing these 'God' crazies. I know its not simple but making it complicated and mysterious not necessarily is a proof of truth.
Evil thrives when good people do not speak up.
Digging a bit deeper reveals a troubling truth.
Inreasing number of the ones who seem to have a 'direct line' to the creator are being discovered as unholy as worstly imaginable as possible in the forms of paedophiles, abusers of all types? Misery.
Are you free of worries to leave your young children around these 'holy' men? Can you trust any one of them personally? If you cannot, how can you trust the institute itself? How can you trust and condone the whole conglomerate which has been hiding the crimes for centuries?
I might be naive, but questions ring on my head. What point am I missing?
How is it not a collaboration when you endorse them and devote a part of your life to them? I am talking about the holiest of the holies - the priests, the monks, the fathers and so forth whose masks are being taken off. I am talking about those who flock to their 'Gods' to cleanse themselves and feel secured, while living a banal and self centred life with no care for anyone else except themselves. Except for sharing feel good quotes on social media, these metro socials have no touch whatsover with the needy and the poor as seen on the pictures and videos they themselves post or Jesus for that matter.
Notions.
I gather atheists say there is no God. Only the science can provide answer to notion of 'God' and soul. To them there are explanations provided by researchers that show the chemicals on brain being responsible for creating these illusions of God, good and bad. They believe the only answer to moral high grounds can be provided by science and facts of nature, the natural justice, and that we do not need religion or God to have moral standards.
Then I am startled by these cunning souls that flock to religious groups, churches and temples for ulterior purposes, to find a spouse, to market their products, to 'network', to make business deals or assimilate wealth, to find opportunites and spread their 'ideas' or even to 'belong', to assimilate in what they think is a higher culture or race and even find an illusionary status symbol, a fashion of some sort. And there are I feel total maniacs who flock there just to be part of the group, the daily or weekly routine, a blind sense of 'religious' duty, a church in Sunday morning keeps a devil away type of devotees, those who fast and starve to show their devotion and sacrifice. I wonder how is there any sense of God in all those rituals which are nothing except self fulfillment. How far away they are, I feel, from the higher being, a God, or any higher meaning in life.
Mine.
The morning I let of of all my shackles of religion, I kept remembering incidents of how an unseen force unfailingly presented itself to me in the form of voice, deeds or from within myself, which had nothing to do with the prayers or any rituals. All my 'religious' activity played no role in his decisions. Actually all those prayers have resulted in complete opposite results in most cases. However, somehow when it mattered, when I was all by myself in a moment of despair, a hidden force most definitely came for rescue. I can call that 'God', it exists, shows itself in most unexpected of times, an unmistakable proof of presence, of a higher power, it comes looking for you, not the other way round.
