Humanism

 Religion had become my topic earlier as well. 

For me it has been a quest, to make sense. Of how the gods came into being. Where it all started. Belief systems. Scriptures. Organised religion and its laws. It was like being born with a party membership, to be born into a religion. All you have to do is follow what is being told. About purity, sin and penance. Just follow. As the rules have fallen from the sky for our redemption.

But how dump we were to believe in the apple and snake story. Even to praise the sacrifice of one's own son in obedience to an unseen god. Why couldn't I understand that the Devas were the white Aryans and the asuras the dark-skinned Dravidians. It has been so evident even in the pictures. How mean is that religion which considered an entire race as demons and unworthy of heaven. We are so indoctrinated to believe blindly. To die to keep up the status quo.

Snipping off the binding cords to the religion I was born into, was freeing. Freeing myself from fear, from blind adherence to customs and rituals I turned towards reason and Humanism. I wilfully adopted humanism as my belief system. Reason, compassion and responsibility as the guiding principles. I forgo the sahasranamas I have byhearted and brave to be a sensible and kinder person.