Judicial interference in religious
activities of faith that too selectively is bad. However,
common sense and common good of all
forms of life and sensitive
concern toward s that must prevail
over everything else.
Like in everything else, religious
activities too change is an inevitable component for evolutionary growth and
development.
So, people involved in practicing
certain traditions and rituals within the faith must start minimizing or giving
lesser importance and wherever possible even do away with certain practices if
they can hurt or harm other species and has greater probability of causing
,inconvenience, damage and danger to our own lives as well.
Neither the intensity of any faith
nor the relevance of any religion may get reduced because of such self imposed
disciplines.
Religions are a good mix of
theories, dogmas, doctrines, rituals, traditions, scriptural dos and don'ts,
sermons for better behavior, cultural entertainments, socio -cultural values,
physical care, environmental care and nature worship.
Religions also have imparted many
philosophical concepts meant to enhance human life imbued with humanitarian
values; to improve social life imbued with compassionate values and to
enlighten the spiritual life imbued with sensitivity to all forms of life.
All of the above are influential,
important, and impactful in varying degrees at different contexts.
Unfortunately most of them also have
been subjected to multiple interpretations due to lack of empirical
authentication or for want of documented evidences.
However, some of them are always
relevant, time tested and useful for humanity.
It is good to want to adopt them or
to appropriate them.
But then when they are done with
some ulterior motives and manipulations and in some cases done because wanting
to desperately appear relevant, or merely as an outcome of either ideological
or traditional indoctrination then it deviates from all the seriousness and
substance of religiosity and becomes a mere ritualistic perpetuation of another
activity devoid of both its intrinsic essence and contextual relevance.
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