Theism Robs You of Your Integrated Personality

Every one of us thinks and speaks high of oneself and one's performances at every available opportunity. This indicates that we have an built-in feeling self-pride, another name for self-esteem. It is a naturally gifted to every one, and there is nothing wrong in it.


Theism preaches us that we are what God has created us to be, and that nothing moves without His will, and that everything and event in the world is pre-designed by Him. We are also told that we are nothing on our own, and we do nothing on our own. And ultimately, we are told not to have any trace of self-pride. Practically speaking, this all goes against natural human tendency.


Since, most of the persons are born conformists, they never dare to confront theist declarations minimizing their existences and their self-esteems. They coolly subscribe to all the declarations and openly preach to others. In-spite of all the conformism outside, every one of these has reservations on all these issues, which find expressions when speaking high of oneself in the society.


This makes the conformists to play dual roles in the society - one with self-esteem and another of conformists - and the two pulling in opposite directions. There is a beautiful Hindi song -

Dekhiye to kya haseen baat hai -
Ek kadam chal raha alag-thalage,
Doosara kisee ke saath-saath hai.

meaning -
What a strange matter -
One foot is moving separately,
the other is with somebody.

This duality causes immense damage to one's personality and self-confidence. This is the reason of a world-wide crisis of self-confidence in people, particularly in God-fearing people of countries like India.