I am a Hindu but that does not mean that we have to blindly
follow or justify everything because we are caught up in some cage of identity.
If someone points out some superstition or irrelevant practice or insignificant
activity in terms of human body, mind and spirit and environment then we must
acknowledge that what we have been doing or claiming as a virtue could be or is
wrong.
Only then the religion and the people following it will
evolve. In fact you must do it more happily because you are born in a religion
Sanathana Dharma which allowed also carvaka philosophy which almost advocated
atheism when the word atheism itself did not exist in any
language.[http://www.mahavidya.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/gajdostik-megan-carvaka-philosophy.pdf
and http://www.slideshare.net/ajitceo/the-carvaka-philosophy]
I read this morning a comment by one Dave in UK "We
have worked out that the earth is billions of years old. If Jesus is the son of
God, the Bible wouldn't describe the earth as a few thousand years old and
there wouldn't be so many other factual errors. Common sense tells you that, if
the writers didn't know any more than the smart guys of the day, there is no
need to look for a supernatural explanation. We may not be able to prove God
doesn't exist, but we *have* proved the Bible to be wrong on many fundamental
points (even theologians agree). Belief based on the Bible is untenable."[
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105834/Career-atheist-Richard-Dawkins-admits-fact-agnostic.html]
Let us not become slaves of our identity or tradition and
instead experience and enjoy life by living it and also let others have the
same privilege.
That's why I have written this essay as my new year message
http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/12/new-year-with-new-realization-of-reality.html
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