I Often Feel Like Inventing Another God
I wrote in a Facebook post: One thing we can continuously do in life without getting anything in return is religious prayer. Three educated users liked the post. The fourth called me an atheist. He further said that I deserved a tight slap.
Some social networking sites are accommodating platforms to abuse others. Facebook is one of them. I called the person a rogue and started arguing with him without losing my cool. The thing is that he had no ability to understand the meaning of the post. He thought I had no faith, either in prayer or in God. He was indeed a sort of fanatic who didn’t have the ability to read the inner meaning of a quote.
I usually abstain from taking part in discussions on religious matters. Most of the participants fly into fury as soon as they feel that their faith has been scratched. They want their faiths to be called perfect and without any shortfalls. On the list, the Muslim people are at the top.
Frankly speaking, no religion has so far been able to quench my thirst for truth. I often feel like inventing another God who is different from all the other gods available in the market till now. My God will be one who doesn’t directly run the universe. If He were actually to run the universe, there wouldn’t be so many mismatches in the running of the universe and so many ups and downs in our lives.
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Then again, don’t call me an atheist. I have never said that there is no God and no one directs the universe. As one of all the creatures, I still have faith in God, but my God is a little different from what I have been told to believe Him to be.
Are we honest while calling us firm believers? Given the nature of our brain and the way we think, we are all agnostic at certain points in time. It is human nature to think uncontrollably. The only thing is that we do not tell others that we, too, sometimes question the existence of God secretly.
I don’t believe that God always loves to find fault with us. Is He not directing the universe and also the functions of our brains?