Tuesday, April 29, 2008

God, Godlessness and Freedom

God is freedom. God is the one main factor of freedom. Religion, in fact, is freedom.

I never saw anyone with greater freedom than people who believe with the deepest submission to their religion. Look at the tabligh followers with full beard and weird scent, aren't they as free as birds? Migrating from one place to another, living with no specific routine. It's like camping, except they do it everyday. And I think camping is liberating, letting go of all our beloved routine which we cling so much to and stay in a foreign land with bare necessities.

How can tabligh people survive this daily camping? How can they even want to be there in the first place? I can only see that religion is the only reason for these behaviours, and the belief should be really, really, really deep.

And these Buddhist monks with deep orange drape, don't their feet ache going slipperless and aren't they feel a little naked walking around without the undergarments? I mean, who could do that unless you really believe in their God/s.

But this guy from Fight Club says, 'Losing all hope was freedom'. They all are nihilists, aren't they? They say existence is senseless and godlessness rules, and they claim they have found freedom. And I do think they found freedom of some sort.
Come to think of it, their freedom can equalise the freedom we see from the bearded men and the monks, the freedom is otherworldly in some sense, weird for the outsiders like us but it's like second skin to them.
Probably it is not God who makes these people do what they do, probably it is just belief, either the belief in God or belief in godlessness. These beliefs ought to be so strong and powerful to get the result of freedom, no question asked, godly or nihilistic, the belief should be rock solid. So, to claim your freedom. God or no God? It's your call...

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