Is there a God???

GOD!!!

It’s such a nice comforting word. Ask some one who has near death experience and he escaped just by sheer luck. Well have we ever wondered how the thought of God did come to our minds? Answer is simple most of us encountered it through our parents if they are not there then we had a kind old woman or man who cared for us. So the question comes where did they get it from? The answer may be dragged backwards to the early man of the Stone Age.

Let’s take a break! Try to remember when did you seriously called for God straight from your heart? When you are in some real tight situation, isn’t it so? If you are a religious person then I think you should forget that you ever read even the heading of this article.

So we come back to the point, our early man gets into tight situation. So whom should he call for help? Any ideas!!! Mostly they called for their friends out there somewhere nearby. But say what he does when he’s in the middle of a storm or some unnatural phenomena that he has never encountered and all by himself? He’s afraid and he doesn’t know what to do? He doesn’t know how to explain them and he doesn’t know who controls these phenomena? So our leader appears who says he can control one of these and obviously he’s the strongest guy of the pack. And one peaceful reign of our leader passes by, with nothing of it (the phenomenon he controls) happens and our leader grows old and then he dies. And the storm comes back, to whom should the common man go and ask for stopping the storm. Here comes the concept of God!

The morale of the story is simple. Man named every unknown unexplained phenomenon as God so as to make him feel comfortable that there’s a man who controls all this and if he makes that man happy which is by offerings and other things which can make a man happy. And this feeling was passed from one generation to another. And in between came many of the originators of new religions. If you compare all these religions you’ll find a pattern. All these gurus tried to give hope to people who were suffering a lot under oppression by other powerful men. Each time a new ideology was born attached to the concept of God.

The civilizations progressed and so did the knowledge of man. Who thought we will be able to communicate to other guy in the opposite side of the world? Well it has happened and the fact that you are reading this article is a proof of that. With these the complexities and the problems of a common man also varied. In between man stopped considering some of the Gods as the ideas were lost with the civilization or with the invasion of light of knowledge upon the man’s blind faith.

But we still need the concept of God to go on? Why? Try explaining to a kid why does the clouds thunder and lightening happens during a rainstorm. The human mind cannot accept the facts that at an early stage and for sound adult mind you must have a total fearless existence of undisturbed childhood. Many of the facts can be understood only at a later stage.

The unknown phenomena still continue to exist and the theists are calling them the acts of God. The day everything is explained, which I think will happen in some another thousand years, will be the end of the God for adults at least. But the religion will continue as it promotes a totally different thing which most of the human race has mistaken since the birth of its concept.

The religion is interestingly not the set of guidelines to hell or heaven after death but it’s the set of guidelines for making hell or heaven here on earth for one and the other. It’s all about peaceful co-existence for man and unfortunately it’s the cause of lots of bloodshed in India and other places also.

That’s all I have to say folks. Just think about it as I have done and am continuing to do so as many points are still unanswered. I hope the guys who have better insight in human mind can give the answers.