World Religions - 21st Century

World Religions - 21 st century

I had a very limited outlook towards religion . For me religion meant something that controls the way we observe different rituals . It also meant something related to the to the unseen divine power that we call God . After reading the book Living Religion by Mary Fisher my definition of religion has not only changed but has become more focussed as I have gained insight about many faiths , which were earlier unknown to me

Now I feel that religion is a vehicle through which we can attain immense

inner peace if we learn to preserve it , remove superstitions related to it and treat all the different faiths as different paths of maintaining good relationship with the almighty . Religion does not demand degrading some one else 's belief and making one 's own belief look like supreme . Rather it teaches to be tolerant of everybody 's faiths and beliefs

Before reading this book I believed that religion means showering praises to God . But after reading the book I feel that religion teaches us the lesson of love . Though we are born as human beings , in our fast paced lives we have forgotten what we , as human beings should suppose to do . It has become a tendency to think about `I ' and not `We . Religion is a medium that has still kept alive in us some kind of unity . Though we do not pay attention to the objectives of our religion , still , during rituals and festivities we realize how much religion has kept us tied to one link . Religion has maintained unity in the thought process , behavior and conduct of the people at least on important occasions

I thought that religion facilitates important events and festivals that occur year after year but now I believe that religion is something that should be celebrated everyday only then can we understand the true meaning of our existence

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