True, if the content or contamination of superstition, unreasonableness, and fundamentalism is of toxic levels, it is a sign that the society and other collective structures as well as the Individual are all getting washed off in the drains..
But it is a fact that the imagery and hope provided by poetry, music, and many other emotionally uplifting things grew and got nurtured by religion, and other cults and creeds based not exactly on the sterile premises of Science and technology..
Yes, I agree, faith and dreaminess, beyond certain levels can be toxic.
However, in optimum doses they have given us many benefits.
In addition, India without Ramayanam or Gita could not have been the same.
The influence of Jesus and his message for love, which spared nothing in its soothing, touch, has made our life on this earth much more worthy.
In the name of Jesus, how much pain and suffering gets redressed and how much human care is bestowed on hapless living beings is there for all to see.
I would rather profess a judicious mixture of the Divine and the rational.
Excess of either can be toxic.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy
Attributed to Maria Edgeworth a nineteenth century Irish writer.
No comments:
Post a Comment