Do you believe your religion is the best?
A post to ponder upon
'There exist two societies—one that radically sticks to their own beliefs and another that remains open to multiple ideologies’, I heard one of my favorite lyricists, Javed Akhtar, say in one of the television interviews. I just pondered his thoughts and realized that the roots of all the chaos and political-cultural upheavals are in the clash between these two societies. This article randomly theorizes a thoughtful commotion I realized while watching a piece from the aforesaid interview.
‘Even today, there exist two Indias in this country’, stated Amitabh Bachchan in one of his films. The dialogue referred to the 'rich' and 'poor’, 'urban' and 'rural' societies of India. Similarly, we can infer, if we insect Javed sir’s statement, that two sections of society—blind followers of Faith and cynical rationalists—predominantly exist in the entire world. Let’s decipher the status of these two sections of society in detail.
The first section consists of people who worship imagined power blindly. They rely on their intuitive force and believe that the world is governed by some mysterious supersoul. The ultimate faith in their beliefs is the quintessential feature of such a section of society. Their faith remains unquestionably authoritative. One of the greatest Indian actors, Ashutosh Rana, theorized in an interview:
“Faith is always blindfolded. Either you keep faith or you disown. There is no any middle path to tread. Believe or disbelieve”.
Several traditional schools of thought have instilled their faith on the basis of unquestionable existence, superpower, and the supersoul. Such beliefs shouldn’t be perceived as a threat to general society unless the believers attempt to actualize the supersoul of their belief and assume that their imaginary supersoul is the greatest one in the entire universe.
On the other hand, there exists a section that completely relies on their rationality to perceive the universe. What cannot be deciphered using intellect is nonexistent in the universe for them. They disapprove of the existence of God in any form and deny believing it in any condition.
Martyr Bhagat Singh presents his thoughts on atheism in his article, 'Why I am an Atheist’.
Several thinkers from the Bhakti (devotion) movement posit their emotions regarding spirituality with reference to the deity of their choice.
After conceptualizing the distinct approaches of these two sections of society, it is essential to discuss the clash between them. Two schools of thoughts disagree with each other
Generally, rationalists disapprove of the belief system, which is not logical and evidential. The believers argue that not everything can be perceived through intellect; many mysteries are beyond intellect. Nothing objectionable is found in both of the approaches—one relies on intellect accentuating evidential confirmation, and another depends upon intuitive force believing in individual experience. However, the rift is getting wider and wider, to an extent that has created all the chaos.
For believers, internal conflict within religious groups is in vogue. Each group tries to prove that their beliefs and practices are the best in the world.
The base of their belief system is intuition and individual experience. However, they try to rationalize their faith and practices to prove that their religion is the greatest one than any other religion in the world.
Isn’t it a fallacy? Aren’t they going against their own beliefs—to rely on individual experience and intuition?
Well, discussion can go on and on.
To conclude, the homogenization of belief systems is evidently impossible. We must, as a society, learn to accept the heterogeneous nature of the faith. In that case, the clash will be obvious among such groups. The key to decreasing such clashes is to learn to accept that others are individuals, and that person is entitled to have an individualistic belief. Of course, everything cannot be accepted generously; in such cases, the argument ought to be free from sarcasm and verbosity.
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