As a human, our greatest limitation is the tendency to limit our thoughts and
notions to what we are fed by parents, preachers, colleagues, teachers and
media. . As we grow over the years, we presume these data as truth and
subconsciously convert these 'truth' into our belief. These beliefs get
deeply entrenched in our mental system and become our conviction which we then
start dogmatically preaching and reiterating. In the whole process, we do two things: first, voluntarily or involuntarily ,we forget verifying them in the
first place. Second, we, unconsciously, block all our doors of
self-exploration and self-certify the unverified data that keeps on infecting
our mental database.
Such a cognitive belief is the belief or the disbelief in the concept of an omnipotent and omnipresent being whom we often refer to as `God ', a concept which divides the whole world into contrasting groups called 'believers' and 'atheists', each of which prove their bigotry by their own logic and experiences. The whole discussion of the concept of God boils down to a black and white picture in terms of either an absolute assertion or an absolute rejection of this being(God). Is there any room for some shades of grey. Well, possibly.
-There is an unexplained and mysterious
perfection and elusive precision in every component of the nature giving a
thrust to the ever-thinking human mind to conceptualize an originator, controller
and processor of all these natural processes. Thus a force called God is
mentally created or its presence is logically discovered. The former is what the atheists assert and the latter is what the believers conceive. Nevertheless,the
meticulously and perfectly designed universe and each of its components
amazingly balanced, no doubt, give an indication of the presence of a creator
or creators having utmost wisdom. The perfect equilibrium in each element of
nature, from the whole big universe to the immaculately build human body to a
nuclear particle, from smallest electron being stable in its shell to the
stability of innumerous celestial bodies in the universe, everything is
designed to perfection with intricate details, reflecting a wisdom beyond
human capabilities, thus making the concept of a supreme being, plausible. But
apart from omniscience, do these observations also give any reasonable sign of the
omnipotence and omnipresence of that Supreme being? Should everything
mysterious and baffling be attributed to ‘God’?
-It might be a case that the supreme being only has the power to create and not to control or intervene or rather it chooses not to do so. This possibility is reflected in the ecological imbalance, unanswered supplications, social chaos, disorders, tragedies and injustice that is so ubiquitous.
-Can't there be two or more creators each tussling for its own hegemony?
-It might be that the creator or creators had never been eternal and would have themselves perished.
-It might be that our supplications and prayers doesn't reach our creator in the first place , or even if it does reach, responding to these is not under its ambit or capability? So we've been just fooling ourselves imploring and beseeching our Creator.
-God in our belief and minds, is a perfect and constant embodiment of all virtues, powers and values. Is that necessarily true? If we can impart humanlike positive attributes to God, why not some negative ones? The personality and characteristics of our Gods might be nothing but our personal and cultural injections and projections of the values that we revere or idiolise. No wonder ,the cherished and human personality is congruent with the personality of our Gods. Personification of God might also be the outcome of our necessity.Oppressed and fearful societies tend to personify wrathful, violent, submission-seeking deities (or God), while prosperous and secure societies tend to personify loving, non-violent, compassionate deities.
We have restricted the mental construct of God to our religious beliefs which is largely inherited. It might be that the correct God is yet to be discovered. There are endless possibilities. And in this pursuit of our endless deciphering we must resist our urge to preconceive the idea that a God has to have human virtues of kindness, justice and compassion or it has to be omnipotent and omnipresent. We should not forget that we are searching for the truth and not a wish or a ray of hope or an object of worship to cling to.
Such a cognitive belief is the belief or the disbelief in the concept of an omnipotent and omnipresent being whom we often refer to as `God ', a concept which divides the whole world into contrasting groups called 'believers' and 'atheists', each of which prove their bigotry by their own logic and experiences. The whole discussion of the concept of God boils down to a black and white picture in terms of either an absolute assertion or an absolute rejection of this being(God). Is there any room for some shades of grey. Well, possibly.
-It might be a case that the supreme being only has the power to create and not to control or intervene or rather it chooses not to do so. This possibility is reflected in the ecological imbalance, unanswered supplications, social chaos, disorders, tragedies and injustice that is so ubiquitous.
-Can't there be two or more creators each tussling for its own hegemony?
-It might be that the creator or creators had never been eternal and would have themselves perished.
-It might be that our supplications and prayers doesn't reach our creator in the first place , or even if it does reach, responding to these is not under its ambit or capability? So we've been just fooling ourselves imploring and beseeching our Creator.
-God in our belief and minds, is a perfect and constant embodiment of all virtues, powers and values. Is that necessarily true? If we can impart humanlike positive attributes to God, why not some negative ones? The personality and characteristics of our Gods might be nothing but our personal and cultural injections and projections of the values that we revere or idiolise. No wonder ,the cherished and human personality is congruent with the personality of our Gods. Personification of God might also be the outcome of our necessity.Oppressed and fearful societies tend to personify wrathful, violent, submission-seeking deities (or God), while prosperous and secure societies tend to personify loving, non-violent, compassionate deities.
We have restricted the mental construct of God to our religious beliefs which is largely inherited. It might be that the correct God is yet to be discovered. There are endless possibilities. And in this pursuit of our endless deciphering we must resist our urge to preconceive the idea that a God has to have human virtues of kindness, justice and compassion or it has to be omnipotent and omnipresent. We should not forget that we are searching for the truth and not a wish or a ray of hope or an object of worship to cling to.
