Continued from previous page ... First of all, I would not base my belief on other persons asking or on any other thing like the fear of being sided out. You know, if these people find you on the other bank of the river, you would be sided out as aliens; they would not look at you in the temples, in the mosques, in the churches, in theatres, in gambling places, in pubs and in… everywhere. Moreover, if you are a non-believer in God, you would feel yourself like a patient, attending the doctor’s conference: every one in the surround looking at you with an inquiring eyes, and would like to do some curing for you.
Our belief in God’s existence is not free from our worldly colours. The belief, I suppose, is dependent upon the fringe benefits it allows us to enjoy. Take the case of the promise of heaven. The theists seriously believe that they have booked their plots in heaven where they would build a hut of their own. In case these people, the plot holders, are convinced that there is no heaven at the end of the journey, then I am sure that there would be more floor crossing than it is witnessed in India’s parliament now a day.
To my mind the greed for the heaven is as ancient as the tastes of our tongues; and we are as wise as we were in the days when it was believed that the diseases are the result of the God’s displeasure. And the God was believed to be allotting space in the hell of heaven as per his whims (or her whims, as I don’t know whether the God is male or female). But, you know, the changes occur; the developments are everywhere. The space known a ‘Hell’ cannot remain untouched by the modernity. So the present day hell should not be so uncomfortable, I think. If you live in metros, you need not be afraid of the inconveniences of the hell, as the hell certainly would not be as difficult to live in as it is in Mubai or Kolkatta.
So my thinking about the God and the ‘Hell’ is adequately dynamic.
When I had studied Charles Darwin in my school, I had a period of faith in my teachers who said that the man is final product of a long process of evolution. And from that I carved out a conclusion that there was no room for God’s involvement in human life. Hence in my early twenties, I was classified as a qualified atheist; and due to that virtue I was welcomed as a man of the modern thoughts.
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