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religion & over anxiety to fulfill wish, will desire, wants. Needs have given birth to blind beliefs which are uncontrollable & undesirable.
Unfulfilled, overanxious, greedy-desires & ignorance has given birth to blind belief. Right faith or religion is not sacrificing of children or torturing your body or animal sacrifice to fulfill your desire No religion teaches to be Cruel or torture your body or any other's body. To achieve any goal of life, efforts, & hard work is needed. In case of failure try again. Complete devotion, faith, confidence is way to success.
We communicate our feeling through language is not clear. It is without definite concepts carries different meaning & interpretation. No one can verify religious statements it is difficult to describe or communicate religious concepts & statements. The mystical world is world of imagination, illusion, faith, hallucination, is not correct & does not exists in empirical world.
Science is systematic exact real feeling, organized knowledge is complete & consistent description of fact & experience are verifiable, understandable of nature's powers & resources are empirical knowledge. Ideaa are screened & investigated marvels of miracles. While religion deals with values, intuitive wisdom, guidance. Newton, capler, Galeleo, Decartes believed in God Newton said God was great mathematician. But Russian writer postoe vaski & Nitsche said there is nothing like God in the world sartre says truth & untruth can be decided by men only. Russell says If there is God then, world would have not be such horrible & problem of evil. Mimansak, Taoists Confucious, Marxists, Jainas Buddhist, Sankhya rejects belief in personal god, universal consciousness or Brahman. Xanophane 510-480 BC. Rejected theory of transmigration of souls. Heraclitus 525-475 BC. Rejected worship of Gods. Anaxagoras, Protogovas, Socrates, Aristotle were deemed antireligious. Pythogoras-believed in rebirth, transmigration of soul recarnation, immortality of soul Heraclitus-everything is flux & everchanging Epedocles-fire earth water & air are the basic elements which can explain universe.
Buddha says-How can you see things which does not exist. People are just running behind in search of God like mirage, from his birth child is nursed with thoughts which are written on his mind like lines on stone & he believes what is taught to him/her.
Right faith is firm belief which diverts the attention of mind from worldly affairs to spiritual progress & diversion from vices to virtues, ignorance to wisdom, passions to compassion & to attain success faith, knowledge & action are necessary. Faith based on wisdom is never blind it develops horizons, widens & nourishes action derives strength
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