Do we need to look like our God to become better human beings? Do we need to look like our icons to become better followers of our religion?
Do we need to pray in a particular way for it to get accepted by the power above?
Do we need to pray a fixed number of times every day, that too at fixed times?
Do we need to pray in any particular direction after proclaiming loud and clear that God made all sides of each direction?
Do we need to believe every breath that we take and every work that we do is part of a religious obligation?
Do we have to forsake every argument, every shred of natural dynamism to be known as exemplary followers of our religion?
Do we have to believe that every other religion and all its tenets are obviously wrong for us to be better followers?
Do we have to positively believe that everything our religious books tell us has to be right?
Do we have to be idiots when it comes to religion?
Is a cult masquerading as a religion any religion at all?
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well said, i have this take on sikhs feeling discriminated for not being allowed to carry kirpan in schools. Imagine me an absolute arsehole starting a religion tomorrow where i make mandatory that my followers should carry bazookas where ever they go. so after i die tomorrow my mad followers would be insisting that they shoud be allowed to carry a bazooka- Religion is supposed to uplift us, but we fall while embracing religion
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