Rethinking religion

The topic is rotten,i know.

And brings out a dull,monotonous,stupid and terribly boring image of the content but Relax!!! I am not going to start off a boring debate on what is right...what is wrong...what should be done and what not...

and i don't bear any personal grudges about anything or anyone in particular.I am just expressing my perception about it.(No hard feelings please)

The most debated topic is here.Actually i am too extremely bored of it but still wished to collect all my thoughts and opinions about it, settle the dispute once n for all and come to a conclusion inside me.(this means...take a sigh..no further posts on it :) )

In the name of religion and faith some intelligent guys(or they seem to be so) are having a ball.Fake babas everywhere, making innovative stories about different gods, goddesses, aatma, dharma, shudhhi, moksha-prapti...(a mixture of all such complex words they use....as normal language doesn't create that effect),their unusual ways of blessing people...baseless predictions about people's lives, career, marriage, offsprings and so on.Asking them to perform different sort of rituals and acts...thus,making good money in name of donations.

And the most disturbing fact...that people believe them..God knows why??

In villages,its understandable that literacy levels are not very appreciable.So people getting into these things is justified(though it should not be) but the shocking scene is that we have witnessed some well-educated people being a part of superstitious practices.

Some time ago,i came across a news report informing me that a devotee of goddess Kali cut his tongue and presented it to the goddess,in a temple in West Bengal.

But that was not it.I searched for such stuff and was horrified to find an endless list of these practices by hardcore religious fanatics.

Some of them included-

• Drinking goat blood directly from its body so that Goddess Kali descends upon the drinker (images can be viewed here ...watch at your own risk )
• A rural Indian doctor beheaded a five-year-old girl as part of a bizarre ritual to help a villager produce healthy male heirs.
• Unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the
  weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain
• Mormom temple garments to be worn as part of Endowment ceremony
• Scientology e-meter and jewish kaparot

I also don't understand the "confession box" thing in churches.Its like washing off all your sins so you can commit fresh ones.

Coming back to the topic...(I tend to get off-track...forgive me for that)

This topic is such that "Millions of people = Millions of views".And one cannot dare to share one's views! Because if you do that people's minds will run at light's speed to form countless opinions about you and you maybe even get regarded as some insane atheist or whatever.So the key is to keep shut at such discussions and observe other people clashing with each other(relegion Vs. reason)

Some people say that God or anything supernatural does not exist.And its just a myth created by some intelligent people so that man does not become boastful of things he accomplishes.....(i mean...stuff like that...to induce all desirable qualities in man).But the trick went wrong i guess....and way too far??

So i guess, humanity is the only religion.somebody has said-

"Think good

Be good

Do good

-this is true religion"

I don't know where to end...

Various religious issues still wait to be resolved like equal rights for homo n bi-sexuals,capital punishment,inter-faith marriages,ritual abuse and many more.This means more debating....(but not here anymore)