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innocent persons and cash the feelings and emotions of the innocent human beings.
All the living religions of the world today are dividing people and spreading communal hatred and violence, in spite of their role of uniting men with their fellowmen. Religion of the present world are fast loosing their religiosity. It seems spirituality has nothing to do with religious. According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, "Religions which are insensitive to human ills and social crimes do not appeal to the modern man. Religions which make for division, discard and disintegration and do not foster unity understanding and coherence, play into the hands of the opponents of religion".! .
Each particular religion defines religion in its own way-in terms of its creeds and dogmas. But such a definition represent a partial aspect of religion-if it does that much even, and in the very nature of things it is not real religion.
Christianity says one thing about religion, Islam interprets it in another way, Buddhism raises an altogether different note, and Hinduism has its own views about it. The result is that those who have little or no interest in religion are in great dismay : they want to keep themselves at a safe distance from any religion whatsoever.2 Recent age is an age of science and technology and we can not be called upon to accept incredible dogmas or exclusive revelations. The modern man who ventilate their opinion perhaps talk against religion than for it. They are aggressive in their attitude desiring to suppress or crush religion altogether due to the wrong and incorrect picture of religion But still religion persists. It is changing colours, taking new forms but it is not dead, not it can die.
Religion is an intrinsic element of human nature. It is the differentiating characteristic between men and animal. Religion has been one of the most powerful factor in the human history. In the words of Comte "Religion embraces the whole of existence and the history of religion resumes the entire history of human
