Right to Religion

We are born as differentiated individuals and grow up to become even more different from one another. We are Muslims, Hindus, Christians or Jews not by choice but by birth. It's our birth which mostly decides which side we will be on and the by the time we are mature enough to make a choice for ourselves(which doesn't happen to most of us), the thought of being a Muslim, a Christian or a Hindu has been hardwired into us. We have been given a name Ram, Andrew or Salim. Our friends know us by the name and the world associates us with that name and the accompanying religion. We rarely get the opportunity to choose our faith and faith is something one must have a choice about like sexual orientation, life-partner and friends.Religion encompasses the sum total of human lives. It has led to people committing genocides, suicides, infanticides and even sexual abuse of young ones.
Islam and Christianity both have procedures for religious conversion. While it may seem logical- a ceremony to mark a change of faith but it has a flipside. It gives the fanatics an opportunity to exploit the deficiencies in their religion and to use their interpretations to forcibly change people's faith. That may be the case with Aurangzeb in the middle ages and the aggressive conversion policies of the Christian missionaries worldwide. However if done fairly, it gives the individual an opportunity to embrace a religion or faith that he believes in rather than one which he blindly follows.
Every religion needs its share of mysticism and legends to inspire its followers. However there is a need for reinterpretation and rewriting of the holy books which are followed so blindly by most people. People on suicide missions quote religious stalwarts of the middle ages citing their words as true knowledge unable to see the fact that they can be more enlightened than their predecessors ever were. The sum total of the world's knowledge is increasing. People no longer burn books or people if their views don't conform to their's. People sometimes can act ignorant but what we are today is definitely better than what we were a hundred years ago. We are closer than ever to enlightenment because we have multiple avenues to acquire knowledge and share it with others.
Giving people the opportunity to choose their religion will lead to questioning of the dogmatic beliefs which often plague religions. It will help the religion to grow along with its followers. More importantly, it will provide meaning to the people who give up their lives without properly understanding that human life is more divine than any teaching, any book or any god that they believe in.

Why Individualism Scuks

If there was ever a guy named god,i say that he's undoubtedly the biggest asshole of all time.And who comes second,all the guy who believe in him and go to those places of hypocrisy which i say, should be replaced by lavatories and whorehouses for the general good.Why do we need religion?In the name of religion thousands of people get massacred each year and blah,blah,blah.I'm not hear to talk about it.Human beings(idiots) have an intrinsic tendency of wanting to kill each other.Some say they'll do it,some actually do it and they have been doing this since time immemorial and will keep on doing it till the shit comes to an end.Don't blame the Muslim warriors of faith(commonly referred to as terrorists).They're doing what their ancestors did for money,power,women etc.etc.Well it's a means of livelihood for them and entertainment for us.
What do people read news for.Your stupid anglophile teacher(the bitch) will say-"to keep yourself abreast with whatever's happening in YOUR world".I'll say- Entertainment.That's what news is for.Do you think people will be interested in listening to the news about our turbaned,lacking-a-personality prime-minister giving a discourse on the contribution of science & technology to the development of our great nation(Saare jahaan se Achha).That's something which is also news and it's also shown(believe me)on our terminally ill national network(Doordarshan).What grabs the news?Qasab & co kill some hundred people in India's tinsel-town.
"Cyclone kills 110 in china"-That's not too many.Anyways i hate those fucking yellow-skinned morons trying to fill our markets with their cheap,toxic stuffs.
"100 biharis killed in assam in the past year"-Light.Who gives a fuck about the bloody biharis.There are already too many.100 won't make a hell of a difference.
So now i praise the muslim warriors for providing us with continuous,unbridled,exhilarating entertainment for so many years.We thought Eiffel tower fell only in movies.They did it.'Woahh'-Never thought i would see it in my own life.Did you see how it fell.Awesome man.I wish i could have been there.I could have made some serious cash if just had a videocam.
The symbol of the great american dream fell and the world was agonized beyond saving.Sardar kids in amritsar lit up candles for the painful departed in the world's greatest city.Many of their dads(aspiring taxi-drivers in the land of the fair or the free west as the asshole called Tolkien once wrote)cried out for those who died.Back home some,I'm not sure how many, maybe some 100,000 people died in a long forgotten place called kashmir over a period of some 20 years(That's 5000 a year if you are a guy of averages).But dad wasn't going to drive a taxi in Srinagar.So Little Baljit didn't care.
So i come back to religion.We have a tendency of dividing ourselves in groups.Individualism is OK as long as you're a part of a group.A group of friends,a group of christians,a group of niggas.These are all groups and they all have a common pattern of formation.Birds of a feather flock together-that's what i say and i don't care to say anymore.But one thing,my religion,i take it as seriously as my orkut group and it isn't anything more than that.
Simplifying things can often help you.The complicated D'Alembert's principle is after all Newton's law wearing a wig.