A World Without religion-Perdition or Paradise

There seem to be an awful lot of people out there who think the world would be better off without religion. I don't mean less religion in politics or schools, I mean none at all. Frued is an example, he says that religion is a kind of nuerosis. A kind of child like condition much like that of a teddy bear that a child sleeps with to keep the boogie man away. Frued predicts that one day mankind, like the child, will finally realise how silly religion is and discard it like a child who no longer needs teddy. He said that we would leave religion, and replace it with reason and science.
There are a couple of problems with this however. Science cannot account for certian things that people must have some kind of answer for. Things like: How was the universe created? What happens when we die? Another thing science and reason cannot do is define the "objective good". What is "good"? When we say something good what do we mean? I would argue that we get our sense of "good" from our respective religions. No matter your faith, almost all religions say essentialy the same thing about how to treat your fellow man and what the difference is between right and wrong. For that matter if we cannot define "good", how can we say something is "better" than something else? Because "better" is the comparative form of "good" and we cannot define the objective good with some kind of transending "good", like we get from God, we would not be able to compare things as "better than" or "worse than" since those ideas would have to be completely subjective to he(or she) who making the comparison. I will argue that without any idea of objective good, man will lose any notion of alltruism and mankind as a whole will fall into a sort of Hobbsian state of nature. Of course in this cas the word "good" would not disappear, it would simply mean "good for me." In which case the entire social contract will change. No longer would you respect others' right live or pursue his or her own happiness, the rule of "might makes right" would envelope the human race and we would inherently lose our humanity. People would become animals, doing only what they must to survive and perpetuate the species.
I know this sounds like an extreme idea but think about it, is it really so so hard to imagine? Look at the wolrd we live in today as apposed to the one your grandparents grew up in. Today material goods, money, and fame are glorified instead of things like, charity, ethics, honesty, hard work, and humility. Now you have to worry about what shoes to buy, what celebrity did what, how can I best benefit myself as apposed to those around me? I would argue that mankind right now is headed down a path that going to a place very dark and hotile. We certainly won't see it, and mostly likely nor will our chilldren, but generations in the future will. We must stop this social decay gripping our nation and world for that matter.

RUCKUS OVER RELIGION

India boasts of being a nation that provides shelter to people of different races and religion . We all know the phrase "Unity in diversity" that has been iterated myriad times in our social studies books during our schooling. But are we really living in peace with people of different religions.This is what i have been introspecting, ever since I had seen namaste london. Akshay enlightens the english men who still feel India is land of snake charmers with some wonderful patriotic dialogues. The dialogue that stands out is "India has a culture where a catholic women steps aside for a sikh to be sworn in as a PM by a Muslim president for a nation of over 80% hindus".
But is there same amount of tolerance amongst the public? That’s the question that needs to be answered. Though we live in peace with people of different cultures and religion, there is every chance for violence to erupt on religious grounds any moment. The religious and chauvinist groups are tightening the noose. The society is becoming increasingly intolerant when it comes to religious issues. Any trespassing is strictly looked down upon. A single instance of disrespect to a particular sect is enough to get the religious and chauvinist groups to get onto the streets and kick of a violent protest. The local administration doesn’t have enough teeth to tackle these issues thanks to the increasing interference of politicians who prefer to keep themselves away from any issues concerning violence on religion. Even the court is unable to play a role as the police in most of the cases fails to make thorough investigation fearing a backlash.
The godhra riots, massacring of Sikhs in the streets of national capital, the large scale violence at Sisar over inter sect issues have all caused large scale damage and left indeliblescars. Each and every time such incident has happened , it went uncontrolled and threatened to spread to other regions. I believe there is still tension among people of different religion. Indians definitely are lot more sentimental but this needs to be controlled or things might turn worse in future. The government needs to be unbiased in situations involving religious clashes. They need to get the vandals of peace to court. This definitely is a problem whose solution can’t be worked out by discussing in closed rooms. It’s a problem whose solution gets tougher as time passes by. We have all lived in harmony all these years. But when someone causes harm to religious beliefs , emotions take over and its almost a reflex action to attack other sects. It’s a problem unique to our country and the society has to come out with a solution.