Religion is not about
- Rites and Rituals
- Norms and Forms
- Dogmas and Creeds
- Dos and Donts
- Right and Wrong
- Good and Evil
- Virtue and Sin
- Superiority complex
- Preaching and Converting others
- Building social networks
- Donations
- Big places of worship
- Intolerance
- Hatred
- Bigotry
- Pride
- Strife
- Cruelty
- Enmity
- Partisanship
- Showmanship
- Righteousness
- Prejudice
- Division
- Discord
- Conflict
- Violence.
Khoji, a Sikh luminary, writes:
“Any religion, which preaches, propagates and encourages directly or indirectly : —
discord,
hatred,
division,
repulsion,
harm,
conflict,
confrontation,
bigotry,
violence,
crusades,
superiority complex,
exclusiveness,
partisanship, and
parochialism,
is not worth being called a ‘Religion’!”
He further writes,
“If religion does not transform our consciousness and make a better and nobler man of us, then the adoption and profession of religion becomes :–
hypocrisy,
superfluous,
showy,
meaningless,
farce,
self-deceiving,
bigotry,
egoistic, and
a mockery!”