Are You Religious or Communal ?

Story 1

During dusk, a bus going on a dusty road surrounded by fields on both sides is suddenly stopped by few men. They enter the dilapidated bus with their AK 47s and take out some of the men from the bus leaving behind some others and shoot them to death. One dying son looks at one of the windows of the bus and reaches out to hold her mother’s hand while dying. The men with guns are kind enough to fulfill the last wish of the son, allowing the old lady to have her dying son in her lap for one last time….

Can the acts of these men with guns be justified in certain circumstances? Did those lying in pool of blood do something to deserve such death? To be continued…..

Story 2

A train is stopped at a railway station and a group of men enter it, searching for someone. They find their man. He is taken out violently, ignoring pleas of the young lady running behind them carrying a crying infant. The group enjoys pouring some liquid on the man while some of them held tight the lady crying her lungs out. Her lone screams could be heard despite the loud laughter of mob. A matchstick is lit and the man sees his wife and child for the last time before being burnt to death….

Can the act of this group be justified in certain circumstances? Does the man deserved to be burnt to death in front of her wife and child?

Read ahead if you are able to answer the above questions.

Story 1 was the killing of Hindus in Punjab by radical Sikhs in 1980s.

Story 2 was the execution of ‘Khoon ka badla Khoon se lenge’ slogan by Hindu goons in Delhi when they killed thousands of Sikhs in 1984 massacre.

If your opinions changed on knowing the full story, it is this very mentality that pits humans against humans and drive people to commit the most inhuman acts of violence. Killing, burning, cutting into pieces or raping in front of family including kids becomes justified in the name of religion or revenge.

If your opinions changed, you are not a pice better than those men who butchered innocent people for no fault of their own. You will form the cadres of potential blood thirsty brainless mob in future who will go on raping ‘Humanism’ for the sake of some ‘religion-ism’. 

Shani Shingnapur: A village centuries behind 'Shining' India

India has a shameful distinction of segregation of human beings in the past by labeling some as 'impure' unlike the pure ones who were usually the upper caste men. Women, were treated impure and unworthy to be equal in status and opportunities even when they belonged to the so called 'upper caste'. And if you think that the ever rising and shining India had left behind all these brainless social structures, here is a village in Maharashtra which was hitherto famous for its doorless homes, apparently because of another irrational belief that those trying to steal from the houses in this village would invite the wrath of Lord Shani, whose famous temple is situated in this village. Now in 2016, a daring women broke another obscurantist tradition that disallowed women to enter the core area (Garbha Griha) for worshiping and as expected, it was followed by protests from some religious groups. The temple administration 'purified' the whole temple by washing it with milk just because a woman walked there! How could anyone expect any logic from such people who have ostensibly stopped using their brains many years ago when they immersed themselves in such blind faith. Even after the High Court ordered equal rights for men and women to pray in the temple, they stubbornly blocked women from entering into the temple. 

Such are the places of worship, where god is selectively available and his accessibility is denied by his creatures to his fellow creatures. Ideally, such temples and mosques discriminating against women for the biological processes which are the very reason for existence of humanity must be demolished as they are worse than public toilets (which in fact are much needed in India than religious monuments). It is a shame that governments in modern, democratic, pluralist and progressive India could not stand up firmly to throw open all public places for all the citizens without any discrimination. It is yet another example of how human minds are enslaved by religion leaving them to live lives worse than animals without any application of mind and under constant fear of wrath of god falling if any of the diabolically inhuman social custom is changed.