It has never ceased to amaze me how people all over the world could fight and quarrel not only over religion, but over God too.
Is God a phenomenon, a mere fabrication of the minds of millions over the ages? Or is God really a supernatural being that most of these millions make Him(Her) out to be?
Well, lets look at how people have analyzed God over the ages (not talking about history here, so please wait a bit more before yawning!).
The question that bugs me the most is that the most obtuse thing that i have found is that people, including myself, have found from time to time that they cannot distinguish between faith and belief. What really is the difference? Here is my take on it.
Belief is that which takes form out of sometimes tangible/believable things that happen to us in life. Faith is a completley different thing. It is inherent in us. Let me make that clearer. I believe that people believe for a reason, or for that part, many reasons. They can believe in a lot of things. They can believe in God, love, death, friendship, trust. They can even believe in you or me.
However faith is really something that comes not from our experiences, but from within us all to varying degrees. It does not depend on age, nor does it depend on character. I find it wrong to say that i have faith in someone. I feel that this is closely related to the a sort of control over fate/destiny(whatever you call it. More on fate and destiny later).
It is really not all that difficult to build up belief(am not saying it is easy), and this is essentially what religions try to do most of the time. They build one’s belief in something that unbelievably seems to out of the grasp of the normal human being’s ordinary mind!!! But i have joy in the fact that religions have often tended to succeed more often than not over the ages. But faith is not something that springs out when someone performs religious rituals. It is something that people take years, sometimes a lifetime to learn.(Sadly, some of us may not learn it even then).
Now, the most interesting aspect here is that religion is not directly the bond between humanity and happiness. I believe that faith is that bond. Be it faith in God, or faith in ourselves, or faith insomething that is worth it. Whatever one might think, faith is what keeps us steady in the roughest of weathers.
So then, why habe people not woken up to the fact that faith is what takes us through life? Well, if only it were that easy! It is only the most resolute who can cling to their faith when all else fails. For faith does not conjure up tangible miracles or visible realms. It is at its simplest, a feeling. Of protection. Of warmth. Of life.
(The views portrayed here are entirly my own. Please do not be offended. I beg your pardon, if I have offended anyone.)
Have faith. Take life by its reins.
Prayers are a human’s way to redemption. Pray for each other, so that our lives may be slightly better. Help each other, so that others’ lives may be slightly better.