The God Delusion

I opened the web this morning and it shot me dead twice.
It is not the first time I have gone through these pains. All those happenings in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir and India and Karachi, and Sri Lanka, all are daggers that cut my heart in many pieces. The hell we are creating for ourselves … that is why I left that part of the world in the first place – coward, selfish, self seeker … I may be, but I could not take the pain – and I closed my eyes for years – to not face the pain – and drowned myself in the work, in the profession, in technology – serving all but myself and my country.

When I got a bit relief from my work, I tried to re-connect to my roots, through some community involvement here in this foreign land, and through (by fluke) getting a bit involved myself at the Chowk.

And all those pains are coming back to me with the force of an Ike. I am devastated every day – everyday there is a bomb blast in my soul, watching the wounds given to my motherland – the motherland which encompasses from eastern lines of Burma to western shores of Mediterranean. All is in flames and I cannot breath.

This morning, someone sent me an e-mail asking to sign a petition as an anchor of a TV program (Aalim Online) incited people to kill Ahmedis and within 18 hours two murders (One of a doctor and another of a merchant) were carried out. And then, while still sounds of blasts in Peshawar, Wazirastan and Kabul are fresh, these new blasts in New Delhi – comes to show the intense winds of hatred blowing all over.

All on the name of the religion. And that is the part which pains me the most. When the true spirit of religion (the pain and anguish which you can see in every Sacred text) get so perverted, when the man become devil incarnate in the hands of religion, when the earth is turned into hell, when the women are killed and buried alive, when men are slaughtered only because they think differently or have different set of beliefs, when faith becomes a draconian monster, when the light of faith is extinguished and insidious darkness spreads everywhere, what do I do with that little ray of light in my heart which refuses to go away.

Now, I am thinking about the anguish of atheists.

In protest of all religio-zealots, I am bringing to attention of all, the work of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". I know science and faith can coexist, I know what all Dawkins is saying is not true, but a lot of what he is saying is true. When faith becomes delusion and bring havoc on earth – then we must listen to its critiques.

This above referred work by Richard Dawkins is available in the form of the book and videos and was shown on TV with a discussion forum.