Srinath's OPED

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion -Abraham Lincoln. Today we are living in a society which, many people whole heartedly agree as the golden age of civilization, internet, technology, and entertainment have greatly improved our life. Yet, the drought in Somalia has led to the death of hundreds of thousands of lives. In the African republic of Congo, child soldiers are brutally killed on a day to day basis. Leaving the African continent, we can see that Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have death, destruction and devastation as a common theme. Whenever the world news is turned on, we see the dictators who rule with an iron fist of tyranny, bringing misery to its nation. So now, one must certainly question, are we living in a golden age? Or are we living in a civilization worse than the dark ages of humanity? There is a common ground on all failed civilizations, an imbalance on either Law, Religion or Governance. This imbalance gen...

"Religion is the opium of the people "  Karl Marx Over the past few months, I have been speaking with quite a few people and have come up with a series of inferences of public opinion with regards to religion. I find that on the whole, people tend to have an antagonistic view towards religion, god and spirituality. Upon inquiry, I wondered what could cause such a blatantly negative view on religion and it has dawned to me as the actual behavior of religion itself. Let us take for instance the witch burnings of the medieval era where between 50,000 to 70,000 innocent women were burned alive,hung, or drowned in fear of witchcraft. Great thinkers like Galileo & Copernicus were imprisoned for propagating the truth. Pope Clement V, killed the entire Knights Templar in fear of their influence and power, and this is just in the northern hemisphere. Moving to India, where in innocent humans were paraded as low cast scoundrels who deserved to live a life of me...