Religious Fanaticism

One of the status meme on FB reads

“2012 gives people false hope. with satellite off track, whatever evacuation plan cannot even be carried out. i'd rather place my hope in Jesus.”

I wonder if the person is confused between ‘believing in god’ and ‘discrediting humanity completely’.

I have seen hindu fanaticism in India. Now, I am in Singapore and I must admit I have never come this close to Christian Fanaticism. Also – I believed the problem could almost be conquered with education and better economic conditions. But no!I think it might have been a naive calculation.

I have this another guy who posted the below video on his profile with message “A true story... Please share this video with your friends or by posting it on your profile”.

Same guy has an album titled ‘Fellowship | Discipleship’ in his Facebook. He’s also running a cell group with all its members under age 21, some non-Christians and we probably know the motive.

I don’t know if you find it disgusting, but I do. I have read and heard of Christian Fanaticism in India and the violence by Hindu groups against churches and Christian organisations that follows.Now, I am so close to it, and have a much wider perspective on the whole subject.

Why can’t people simply follow their religion?Why do they have to manipulate it ?The above cases are just examples from today - SINGLE DAY!

Note : No offense to any particular religion.No offense to any particular person. I am just against 'Religious Fanaticism' as a larger threat to a peaceful society.

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech is being misused in US.

Excerpt :

"Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has requested US President Barack Obama to hold a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks as he believes them to be staged by the Bush government."

On a similar note have a laugh watching the below video :

Those days…

Came across this wonderful summarization of pre-1991 era (in India’s context), from one of Gurcharan Das’s articles :

“Dreaded days prior to 1991 when our government did believe that the way to make a poor person rich is by making the rich poor”

Gurcharan Das almost always impresses me.A lot of my thoughts are reflection of his.

Whats with the statues?

Seriously! What’s with them? Are we unable to rise above statues?

As if Mayawati’s statue-shopping wasn’t enough, we have a real competition going in here.

Excerpts from TOI report :

“Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Sunday described the Congress-NCP government's proposal to erect a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji in the Marine Drive, Mumbai, as "foolish".”

It is indeed “Foolish” and even the Thackeray’s know it, which suddenly makes it all the more "Foolish”!!

“However, Sena chief executive Uddhav Thackeray clarified that Balasaheb was not opposed to the project as such. He told TOI: "The Congress-NCP has been in power for the past 10 years. Why did it not implement the project? It announced it only on the eve of the assembly elections with an eye on votes. It is the non-serious attitude of this government which we find objectionable. It may be recalled that Balasaheb himself had inaugurated a huge statue of Shivaji Maharaj outside the air terminal at Sahar."”

Eye on Votes?? Why do politicians even blame other politicians for doing things “with an eye on vote”??What’s the point?Hmm…They must wanna prove that ‘moron population is in majority’?

Have a look at this ( Heart patients, stop right here! )

“Meanwhile, the politics of statues has taken a new turn with senior NCP leader Vijay Kamble demanding a memorial to Dalit champion Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at Dadar at a cost of Rs 700 crore.”

Even if I was uneducated, why would I vote for some ABC party because it is spending 700 crores on building XYZ’s statues??WTF?

So tell me, what’s with the statues?Are they In-fashion?? I would wanna build one of my own, in my garden, and I swear to vote for you if you give me a 100 crore subsidy, if not finance it completely.After all I am from ‘Blah Blah’ caste, and any denial in releasing the funds will be considered as a contempt of people of my caste!!

Edited to add the below Link provided by 'phase shift'

Cong plans 30 YSR statues in Hyderabad