It’s hard to say since when I started moving away from the concept of God. But I remember refusing my parents to go to temples anymore in my childhood when I was almost 12-13 years old. I also remember engaging myself in arguments with my dad about it and being called a nastik (atheist). Of course at that age, I was not aware of the ‘concept’ of God, which mankind has formed, but I just stopped believing in idol worship and started believing that God is everywhere. My thoughts were to be transformed with time.
I was always fascinated by science. By science, I mean the general way of approaching things and not just Physics and Chemistry (btw I hated Chemistry in school). But the general way of looking at things from a scientific point of view is what grew within me with time. This also meant that I started questioning the lessons I had learned from my parents and society. We must worship God, we must pray, we must sing songs to please and praise the God, God will punish us etc. I was just not ready to accept these so called truths and norms set by society. But I did nothing to explore the other side of my thoughts, i.e I didn’t try to know if I do not believe in God then what do I believe in? More importantly, is it really important for us to believe in something? Can’t we just do and live without it?
I have read few books and I want to share my learnings from them. I was interested in knowing the parallels between religion and science. The point at which science can’t answer what religion and God claim. How did we come in this universe? How was life formed? Why are we here? God seems to have answered all these questions. But science couldn’t. It is fine with me because I look for evidence before starting to accept a statement as truth and a fact. I came to know that we are all made up of atoms and these are in turn made of tiny particles called neutron, proton and electron. What are these made up of? Quarks. And what are quarks made up of. Honestly, scientists are still finding the answer to that and that’s why they have made huge machines called LHC and other particle accelerators to find the answers. We are still exploring this but that doesn’t mean we start believing in something which doesn’t have any evidence.
I also learnt that the earliest of civilizations used to worship women in particular because women were creator of life and gave birth to new life. Over time mankind started realising the need of having someone they can rely on in case of fear, calamity or for protection. I believe this is how the concept of god originated and eventually developed into what it is today. Today it has become a business and I don’t even want to talk about it which you are all aware of. But it is really sad that people kill in the name of God and religion and this totally contradicts the true purpose of religion and faith in God. Another interesting theory is that our future civilizations on Earth might actually worship the contemporary superheros like Batman, Iron Man and Superman. We have heard almost similar super awesome stories about our gods having super natural powers and their ability to perform miracles, right? Connect it!
We are all made up of same elements, not just humans, but all the objects around us in this country, this world and on this planet. We are all one. Talking about other galactic objects in space, they are also made up of same elements. Hence at the time of Big Bang, when the universe was an extremely dense ball of matter, everything was one. I still like to believe the fact that we are all one and made up of same elements and this is what connects us all. Hence labels like religion, caste, race etc. sound foolish to me and I can never believe in those man made concepts. At least science doesn’t make me discriminate people based on these labels. I am not saying that science has got all the answers, but it is looking for it which is far better than blindly believing some worldly truths just because they have existed for ages. As Richard Feynman said, “I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
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