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The Gods must be Crazy


-Do you believe in god ?
-No, I’m an atheist. I only believe in things I can see.

Well I bet you might have heard it from someone’s mouth or maybe from your own.

This actually sounds practical, modern and cool too “Mom I’ve told you many times, I don’t believe in all this”.

Being an atheist or not is not the question here, but why do I see more people now expressly denying their “God fearing abilities”. How dare they? I mean that’s the one and only thing that we Indians are GREAT at doing unanimously – Fearing God.

It isn’t the Gods who make our thoughts bewilder, but rather the fear of dying has made us beseech the idols for our long life (with even longer monetary figures, of course!). The Idols no doubt have supernatural power, I have seen it myself – The power of attracting money.

No one can deny the fact that our motherland is the most enriched soil, when it comes to the “o(g)res of superstition”. The framers of our constitution in 1949 encrypted a very solid religion which was to be followed by one and all, known as “No Religion”. That means everyone is free to follow any religion they like.


In a country like India where an adult girl is not even considered ‘eligible’ enough to freely move around her compound (also read "What's Wrong with Indian Women? - Nothing") , freedom is merely a word, the roots of which can be seen dwindling only in stagnant water.

The problem is not with the thought behind atheism, but with the people who consider that this thought is not even worth considering. Atheism is considered as against the order of nature. An atheist is generally considered to be against God, and that’s where the problem arises. Atheists DO NOT have any quarrel with god, but with people who are so fondly in love with their almighty that they are unable to recognize their own master, and instead follow the dubious instructions of the elephantine bellied pundits, qazis etc. who reflect themselves as the ‘privileged  link’ between God and his creatures.

Different folks have different opinions, India is a diverse nation after all. Religion is one such topic which seems stuck at one point (somewhere back in time). Masses may have developed, but the practicality…..I’m not sure. The more you seem to penetrate into the topic the more you are hated.


Hatred ignites anger, and anger my friend, can do wonders! Bloodshed, Assassinations, Massacres are some of them. When a child is born he is not an atheist neither is he a theist but the practicality of the surroundings can very well compel an individual to deny the belief in superstition. Wars have been fought on the name of religion, but sadly it is the humanity who at the end loses. But if there is a God, atheism must seem to him as less of an insult than religion. 

Probably because we have one less excuse to start wars.

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