Does God Really Exists Today?

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By Super Admin

Friday, June 3, 2011, 17:25

There are numerous religions on earth and the number of Gods are still exceeded. The most updated and largest religion on earth, Christianity, has a single God who exists in a mysterious form of Trinity. Second largest Islam believes in an almighty Allah. The great Indian religion Hinduism has highest number of gods, thirty three crores, may be each god for each believer. Even if we are not sure about the existence of god, most of us believe in one or more gods and are afraid to the extent that merely questioning the existence of god itself may bring some sort of curse on us.

A poem goes like this, men created religions and religions created god. When rewinding the history to the primitive human life it is crystal clear that most of the religions and the concept of god originated from the very helplessness of humanity. When it rained with flashing thunder the afraid man adored the thunder as a god. When he was astonished by the sunlight he made the shining star a god and named him 'Surya'. When nature was harsh to him there was no other option left to him than adoring the nature as a god to save his life.

When kings reigned over kingdoms it was common among them to fuse divinity to kingships to make people blindly obeying them as moral obligation, thus we have gods like Rama, Krishna etc... God for most of us, even today is something to be depended upon when no help comes from nowhere. If you part your lips to argue with me, I would ask you for sure that how many of you believe in a God with utmost surety that there exists a god and you have experienced him undoubtedly?

When asking proof for the existence of God even philosophers turn perplexed. Some say that god is the causeless cause of everything. Everything that exists on earth is a result of something or every effect should have a cause behind it. If we go back from effects to cause at a particular point in history we will be forced to introduce god as the first cause which is not caused by anything. Another common argument for the liveliness of God is that if every action is to be rewarded in light of justice, there should be a judgment after the unjust earthly life and a person to judge and punish everyone according to the deeds, thus there arises the chance for a god.

Is the concept of God relevant in the post modern era? Of course I am not throwing this question to priests and nuns who make a living by marketing religion and god. I ask this to the educated common public who are compelled to believe in God and follow the outdated rituals and unknown ways of religion. When I asked this question to one of my friends he answered me, “Why should we take a chance? If there is a god let him reward me for my belief". I am sure that this is the thinking of the majority of society.

When asking about the existence of God, Christian religion goes on chanting the same, 'You believe so that you may understand'. They fail to realize that it should be our understanding that has to make us believe something. When asked unanswerable questions regarding god, the so called 'Christian Highnesses' slip away telling that God is a mystery and the teaching of the Church is error-less and to be believed, so blindly. What is the case with other religions? All religions lock the minds of believers with unknown fears so that they may never be freed from the useless irrelevant and unnecessary religious practices, which are the ways for every religion to make profit and a living for the 'incarnated men of god'.