[The following post is written by TDV Contributor Jayant Bhandari] I find religions rather repulsive, mostly because the concept of religion suggests that people must look up to some scriptures as a point of reference. Irrespective of how good or perfect they might be if one has not imbibed the concepts as one’s own, one will fail to decide on what is the right course of action in life’s rather everyday complex events, which require weighing many ideas. If “beliefs” and “faith” are inculcated early in life as the way to process the world, they kill children’s capacity—irreparably—to reason and to understand the world through evidence. If they are taught mystical stories that are not rooted in the way the universe works, they can no longer see what the objective-reality tells them, even after they have grown up. At best, a book can teach isolated principles, but if it makes it incumbent upon its adherents to follow it rigidly it will destroy their thinking-power, individuality and morality. HINDUISM VS ISLAM I grew up in a two-block non-Muslim community within a predominantly Muslim city of Bhopal. Most people don’t know, but when “India” became “independent” in 1947 they were several countries: Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Goa, etc. Bhopal was run by a Muslim ruler and was mostly Muslim.
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