Influence of Divine Terror on India

India, since the days of Mahaabhhaarat war about 2400 years back, except for period of Gupta Dynasty rule, has been suffering from an imaginary terror of divinities on the life of people. This had been and is still being impressed that a person must be afraid of God and the death which may come/appear at any time to anyone. Scientific thinking on the subject is totally debarred through putting it under 'unknowable'.


Spreading process of this terror is continuous through a well-oiled mechanism of priesthood, temples/mosques/gurudwaras/churches at every nook and corner of the land. Billions of Rupees are spent every year on spreading this terror through print and audio-visual media leaving no possibility of escape for the common people from this terror. And this money is extracted from the pockets of common people through forcing devotional spirits in their minds. They donate due to their feelings of fear of and devotion to the unknown. People operating this mechanism also enjoy their lavish lifestyles from these donations without doing any productive work by themselves.


A huge population of India, estimated to be 25 percent of the total, is involved in this business of spreading divine terror and no productive work. This population remains in continuous touch with political authorities in the country for mutual gains. Through this terror, people are made tolerant to every sort of injustice done to them, every sort of exploitation inflicted on them, and every sort of their deprivation of their basic needs. Due to these, the common persons have continuous problems of survival and remain busy in confronting these. As a result, they have no time, resources and energies left to think ahead and analyze the causes of their miseries. This works advantageous to their exploiters and the exploitations go on unbridled and unchallenged. Thus, 15 percent population involved in governance and administration of the country in league with 25 percent population involved in spreading divine terror, keep on exploiting the balanced 60 percent hard-working population of India.


Logically, humans make a society and whatever changes take place in the society, affect their lives. Since, this factor remains out of control of any individual, future of everybody becomes dependent on social changes. This uncertainty is communicated to the people by the divine terrorists as their fates pre-written by God, On the other hand these terrorists themselves pose as agents to God and thus become moldes of people's fates through their intervention with God. This makes them super-human in the eyes of common people and this perception of super-humanism become the tool of all sorts of exploitations.

Mythology and Realology

Mythology means descriptions of persons and events based on hear-says without any logic or evidence of these. These pass on from one generation to the other without any questions and efforts to check these. As such many stories keep on floating in every human society of the world.


This is a built-in trait in the human psychology to believe what parents and other elders tell without raising any doubts or questions about their authenticity. If such a tradition goes on uncorrupted by evil intentions of some body in the chain, there is nothing wrong in carrying on the tradition from one generation to the next. But evil minds take advantage of this tradition to insert their evil stories in the psyche of people to serve their own ends.


Why we are discussing this issue is the fact that some evil-intentioned persons in the past took advantage of such a powerful tradition to float false stories in the societies to serve their vested interests. Concepts of Gods and Goddesses, religions and spirituality, etc. were floated by some enemies of humanity to relegate the people to nothingness and establish their psychological and political rule over them.


This biggest fraud of introduction of God and Religions in the psyche of humanity was committed about 2300 years ago by Plato and his Academy. The human societies all over the globe have been carrying these falsehoods as their mythologies and suffering under impact of these even today. This happened world-wide but some cultures gave a rethinking on these and eradicated what was found to be inappropriate to the human society.


Europe’s renaissance age is the result of such a rethinking making the people there free from such mythological stories. They examined each and every tradition brought forward through mythological stories and removed them from their society. This is what I call Realology - judging every tradition scientifically on the basis of realities.


India too has many such traditions carried forward from generation to generation without checking these scientifically. These mythological stories are paralyzing the Indian society’s mental faculties.

Faiths Blocking Scientific Developments

With the development of sciences, the humanity has become more knowledgeable and the process is going on. But religious myths, developed at a time when sciences had not developed in many fields, are in direct confrontation with the scientific knowledge. Today, only 45 percent of Americans believe in truth of evolution. However, Japanese and Europeans have shown a better inclination to scientific evolutionary knowledge with their percentages standing at 78 and 70, respectively.


So much so that the National Science Board, which oversees National Science Foundation in US, has opined that if religious beliefs of people require to discard scientific facts, the board doesn’t think it appropriate to expose the truth.


This is alarming to the scientific community and their work the world over and with some more advancements in the same direction, one day may kill all scientific developments. This is alarming to the people also who, in-spite of their contra-science religious beliefs, are dependent on scientific knowledge for their survival in their present lifestyles, whether it is electricity, medicines, computers, internet, etc or anything else. Thus the faith holders have a dual face on depending on sciences and showing their faith in anti-science religions. This is a clear indicator of where the religions are going to lead us to – a dark age.


Every religion claims to being based on universal knowledge. Yet the religious faith followers have been showing their intolerance to other religions by murderous actions, religious hatred, beheading and bombing people. Comparatively, the Atheists and non-believers rarely condemn individuals rather actions and ideas that deserve to be challenged and they are unanimously condemned by all religious followers. It shows that only the religions are at fault and these are misleading people and are divisive to human society.


Keeping religions immune from criticism, in the name of tolerance to religious faith and hurting feelings of the believers, is both unwarranted and dangerous. Unless we are willing to expose religious irrationalities whenever and wherever these arise, we shall be encouraging irrational orientation of public mind, policy and promote ignorance over education for our next generations.

Faith and Logic

Humans have an instinct called curiosity - to know more of things around - and for satisfying this urge, they acquire knowledge. There are two possible sources for gaining knowledge - by learning from others and believing them, and by studying unknown things logically or by grasping such studies of others and accepting the facts by satisfying themselves through reasoning. These two methodologies are, respectively, known as 'faith' and 'reasoning', and the latter is generally called as 'science'.


For faith, the person need not be knowledgeable in advance, nor he/she needs to have reasoning capability. In faith, the person gets an information from another just accepts that. So, it needs neither wisdom nor any mental exertion. Therefore, it is very easy and often an asylum for the idle minds - their curiosity gets satisfied without any efforts. Such a person may call him/herself as 'knowledgeable' but all his/her knowledge is shallow and changeable with time and circumstances. Imagine a person going to a group of theists and by just listening their views becomes a theist him/herself. The same person when goes to a group of atheists becomes an atheist just after listening their views. Thus, his/her faith and knowledge are changeable. For stabilizing his/her faith, he/she goes by majority view, or whatever is said by more people in his/her contact, is believed to be true..


Conversely, gaining knowledge logically is difficult, needing efforts and use of intellect of the person. In this process, the person examines each fact critically and accepts it only after getting satisfied. For this, the person must have reasoning capability and previous knowledge of examining the things critically. Therefore, only really knowledgeable persons could be logical. Because this scientific process is difficult, only few persons go for it and they acquire a little with much efforts. But their little knowledge is deep and unchangeable. For his/her little knowledge, such a person always remains curious and never considers him/herself 'knowledgeable'. With this feeling, he/she keeps on making efforts for gaining more and more knowledge. In reality, this is humanism which keeps the instinct of curiosity alive for ever.


Faith is not a natural attribute of human-beings. This was chosen by early humans on ad hoc basis to satisfy their curiosity when their sources and means of gaining knowledge were too few to satisfy their curiosity instinct. Even their intellect was also limited at that time. So, faith is not a permanent solution for satisfying curiosity but the 'science' certainly is.


Even humans have inertia like that of the dead bodies which provides them convenience of getting satisfied without working. For this reason, convenience-seeker humans are assertive on holding 'faith' steadfastly to save themselves from hardships of gaining knowledge through science.

Faith and Intellectualism

Faith and intellectualism are two opposite ends of ideology of an individual. In faith, the person believes in the matter without questioning its authenticity. this amounts to blocking the intellectual component of the person's personality. In intellectualism, the persons verifies the authenticity of a matter before him/her and believes only when the matter is found to be true. In this way of believing, the person makes full use of his/her intellect and in the process sharpens it further.


Intellect is the most precious attribute of a human-being making it superior to all other species of life on earth. So, it is distinctive of humanity and without this or without making use of it, the human-being is like any other animal, or in other words, the intellectualism is true humanism.


All matters of God, religions, spirituality, etc. demand faith of people without questioning, or without any intellectual intervention by the person, so are contra-humanity. And conversely, atheism is the real humanism. All faithfuls are just like beggars who live on others' mercies.


All humans have curiosity as a natural instinctive attribute, and curiosity includes knowing a thing in its depth trough use of logic and/or intellect. Use of logic and intellect is intellectualism and need no blind faith. Thus, atheism is an instinctive gift of nature for all those having intellect, and conversely theism is artificial and anti-instinctive.

Common Traits of Theist Personalities

Being a determined atheist, I have been closely watching those having leaning on theism. I find such personalities in confusion. The most dominant confusion in such persons remains whether they must perform or remain on mercy of God. Their thoughts keep on dangling in between these two issues, and when pressed on one side, escape to the other. To survive, they have to perform, on failures of their efforts they pray to God for results. When God does not help they skip to performing again.


They actually don't know how the results of their performances are generated, which are principally due to two factors - personal efforts and social circumstances. Since, circumstances are not under individual control, the results also go beyond individual control. For this reason, theists think that the results depend on God's mercy. Here, we examine some personality traits of theists.


Self-confidence
Living on the mercy of someone, God or somebody else, is good enough to lose one's confidence in the self for being able to do something on his/her own. Lack of confidence in the oneself adversely affects performances in all sectors of life. I have particularly noticed medical practitioners displaying 'I treat, He cures' message in their clinics in order to evade responsibility of getting results. Such practitioners must be avoided by serious patients.


Self-esteem
Feeling of 'I am nothing' is indicative of low level of self-esteem which is common in theists. They never raise their heads with pride but are ever prepared to bow before anybody, particularly those in pseudo robes posing as Godly men.


Subordination
Theists are happy to be subordinates rather than being the boss and taking decisions and responsibilities. So, theism blocks progress of the person.


Discipline
Discipline needs two basic things - clear understanding and following with confidence. Theism is a matter for displaying to others rather than adopting in practice. This fact is faced by every theist sooner or later. This makes them indecisive and adds fake-ness to their lifestyle and routine behavior. These, in turn, make the person deficient in discipline.


Individualism
Theism is rampant in the world not because of its being factual but because of the wide-spread conformism in the world humanity. People become theists not because of their own convictions but because their parents and social contacts have guided them to be so since their birth. So, a person is a conformist first and a theist later. This means that no theist has his/her own individual value system.


Thinking faculty
Persons who evolved theism also devised methods to block fresh thinking in the followers. The most common method adopted for this purpose is mono-tracking the mind of the victim through processes such as repetitions of certain words thousands of times. Such processes make the mind habitual of going in rounds and rounds on the matter in the same way and closed for a fresh thinking. So, no theist is a good thinker. As a result, the concept of theism remains the same in-spite of the humanity going trough rapid upheavals in lifestyles.

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.