Question everything

We are taught to question everything before believing in them. No matter how incontrovertible the statement might be, we are told to question it till our inner-self is completely satisfied.

Then why aren't we allowed to question religion? 

A 10 year old boy oblivious from the various traditions and beliefs that pervade in the society is perplexed by the atrocities he witnessed around him, questions his Father.

SON: Why do you want me to go there? The snake around the neck of that blue man terrifies me. We have to go there barefoot and the floor is hot, it hurts me.

FATHER: You barely know how to talk and you are disrespecting your own God? 

SON: My God? No one gave me a chance to choose my God, I don't like the God you take me to. I like the one with an elephant head and even that lady sitting on a lion. I like lions daddy.

FATHER: You are a Hindu, all these Gods are same, If you want we can go to the temple you like.

SON: So we can go to that place where people wear small caps on their heads? I always wanted to meet the person who wakes me up every morning with his singing. I will tell him to lower his volume, I want to sleep more till my vacations end.

FATHER: Please God forgive this child. They are muslims. They are not our people, their God is different.

SON: But daddy you just said that all these Gods are same.

FATHER (completely vexed): Leave it, go get ready we are going to the Temple we went yesterday.

SON: I do not want to go there, I hate that place. They do not let didi and mumma enter and they berate me for eating from my left hand. I won't go there. What is wrong with both of them that they do not let them in and I can't eat from my right, how is it my fault? 

FATHER (slaps him): You adamant child, you want to change how this world has been functioning till now? Go to your room.

 

SON (crying): But I don't like the way it works.

This is the harsh reality of our society. We are not given an option to choose our God, our God is the one our Family has been following since inception. Religions create divides as well, be it inter-religion or intra-religion, divides do exist. 

Religion divides a human into Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jew etc. while the divisions that are intra-religion are more farcical. A division between a right handed person and a left handed person where the left handed person is a sinister. A division between menstruating females and non-menstruating male where menstruating females are considered dirty. How is it a person's fault when she eats from her left or she menstruates? 

We are also told that God has created everything that is there in the world. Then if that is true then the left handers, menstruating females, low caste people all are created by him. If people consider these factions as outcasts of the society then it is proven that God is not the almighty, he has made copious amount of mistakes.

These atrocities I witness around me makes me more sure that in order to find God the only place I do not have to look for are these religions. People refuse to question anything dubious in their own religion. Why? When we clearly can find loopholes in them why is it difficult for them to question that. May be that would tarnish the pristine reputation of their religion but if there are loopholes how can it be pristine?

Next time, question everything that you are told to do moreover question yourself when you discriminate because of a caste because everyone is created by God ergo we all belong to that one caste.

THINK!!!!!!