Human race is
harmed with religion poisoned by prejudice and absolutely frantic with hatred and
fear……Kayode Gomes
Often times we mistake religion for Godliness/Spirituality.
We have misplaced the value of religion into an instrument of hate and chaos.
Religion has
lots of definition among which it could be a belief and worship of a
supernatural controlling power. It is also defined as a system of faith and
worship. Another definition says it is a way of life committed to by monks and
nuns. It is a practice in which someone or some group is seriously devoted. It is
also said to be faithfulness to a given principle. Consequently, religion has
become the root of evil to mankind. Since the creation of man , the cause of
war is the different ideology about religion which is also intertwined with
culture and traditional belief. Fortunately, if we actually want to follow God’s
principles, we will discover that all faith/belief is same . But the
system/institute called religion has brought misconception which makes people interpret
spirituality as religion, thereby making them devoted to evil ideology.
In all the
spiritual book and holy books I have read; I’ve been privileged to read both Holy Quran and Holy Bible, it is simply the same
thing and the same God, just a different way/style of worship. But some hypocrites
and fanatics will bring down the world in other to make a point or just to have
excuses to cause calamity. No part of the holy books promote hatred, war, or
any form of evil we experience in the name of religion. I’m worried about how
so many will end up in hell in the bid of pursuit to heaven. Among every saint
there are millions of sinners. Funny enough, those sinners are mostly the ones
that claim to be righteous and know it all. It is sad that we lost innocent
souls everyday around the world because of religion, we deceive people, preach
hate, promote terrorism, make others feel less or not worthy because of
religion. Even brothers and sisters cannot live in peace because they have
different ideology on religion.Previous generations and present generation is
polluted with hatred and I hope we can make it right for the next generations
to come.
I don’t blame
people who don’t believe in religion, neither believe God exist because some of
us do not want to be part of an institution or system that causes chaos and
calamity for generations. However, knowing God and connecting to him is a
personal decision.
In my opinion,
Godliness and Spirituality has nothing to do with religion. Religion is
institutionalized with human made doctrines and agenda of its own. Religion
exploits and blackmail, it preaches hate and in-equality. Religion is just a system
structured by human and most times for selfish interest. In whatever you belief
in, the fact still remains; there is only one God. He created everything
including you and whatever you become in life. Miracles happen because we have
faith, we are blessed because God already said so. He has given us power to
make wealth, he blessed us even before our existence, he says we should live in
peace and harmony, he says we shouldn’t judge others. Don’t be deceived by religion, don’t let
anyone deceive you of fighting for God,
there are no virgins in heaven even if you kill millions of people in the name
of Islam.
One of the
problem with religion is human, when something is intended to be potentially beautiful,
we turn it ugly for selfish interest. As religion seem to be one of the major
problem in the world today in every facet of life, I hope we can work towards better
generations where we can accept, tolerate, embrace, respect one another and
live in harmony.
