Shantnu Because religion too has been relegated into the backpack and machine is the in-thing now.
Student Dada, machine is not the only one factor which has distanced us from religion; there must be other valid reasons too!
Shantnu It was the fear of religion that actually segregated us apart. A new element of sin and sinners was introduced, which instead of checking evil, spewed hatred. A new class of moralists was born and it took into its hands, with full passion and furry, the reigns of religion and dissected it into as many parts as there are the artificial divisions of the Mother earth.
Angelee Now let us disperse. It is almost dinner time. We shall meet tomorrow if the master permits.
Shantnu You are always welcome.
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Student Dada, today is Sunday, so we would like you to teach us the real significance of religion in our lives
Angelee What is the relevance of Sunday tor religion?
Student Madam, religion is the human holiday from the stress and strain of the mind (karmas).
Angelee You mean it is a mental holiday!
Student Not only a holiday but a luxury that the human brain enjoys.
Angelee Religion was once the backbone of human elevation but to what state it has degenerated, I gauge from your dry humor! Now, the master will tell us more about it.
Shantnu Religion is the mental discipline which helps in tine cultivation of conscientious values (compassion) in the application of 'knowledge'.
Student Dada, by using the word 'help', you have left scope for the atheist too; in their case, what is it that helps in the culmination of conscientious values
Shantnu It is love that inculcates human values, in place of moral-values in a human being
Student Dada, what is difference between these two?
Shantnu Not at all only atheists prefer not to use the word moral, as they associate it with religion along with its associated terminology of virtue and sin (moral/immoral), instead they prefer to use the term of right and wrong.
Student Do theists and atheists have different basis which culminates in them moral/immoral values.
Shantnu These go by the name of sympathy, self-sacrifice, affection, mercy, kindness, compassion and love actually----love is their composite form.
Student Dada, then it is only love, in its maturing form that inculcates emotional richness, and reflects in different shades of human personality. Then why a theist is considered irrational?
Shantnu The facts are otherwise. Rationalists are the most immature species. Their system of logic is based on disbelief, which automatically debars them from knowledge. If you close your mind to all the available channels of options and start from only circumvent of disbelief, you have automatically closed your mind to accept the very fact of the existence of that subject which is the subject matter of a proven theory and only then should make it a subject of our research. We may improve upon the theory or completely disapprove it, is another matter, but initially we must give due weight-age to an established theory. Therefore, the so called rationalists are the irrational minority in themselves, the minority of intellectuals who are rich in emotional content only.
Student Then atheism is the tribe of rationalists, is it not so?
Student Dada, machine is not the only one factor which has distanced us from religion; there must be other valid reasons too!
Shantnu It was the fear of religion that actually segregated us apart. A new element of sin and sinners was introduced, which instead of checking evil, spewed hatred. A new class of moralists was born and it took into its hands, with full passion and furry, the reigns of religion and dissected it into as many parts as there are the artificial divisions of the Mother earth.
Angelee Now let us disperse. It is almost dinner time. We shall meet tomorrow if the master permits.
Shantnu You are always welcome.
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Student Dada, today is Sunday, so we would like you to teach us the real significance of religion in our lives
Angelee What is the relevance of Sunday tor religion?
Student Madam, religion is the human holiday from the stress and strain of the mind (karmas).
Angelee You mean it is a mental holiday!
Student Not only a holiday but a luxury that the human brain enjoys.
Angelee Religion was once the backbone of human elevation but to what state it has degenerated, I gauge from your dry humor! Now, the master will tell us more about it.
Shantnu Religion is the mental discipline which helps in tine cultivation of conscientious values (compassion) in the application of 'knowledge'.
Student Dada, by using the word 'help', you have left scope for the atheist too; in their case, what is it that helps in the culmination of conscientious values
Shantnu It is love that inculcates human values, in place of moral-values in a human being
Student Dada, what is difference between these two?
Shantnu Not at all only atheists prefer not to use the word moral, as they associate it with religion along with its associated terminology of virtue and sin (moral/immoral), instead they prefer to use the term of right and wrong.
Student Do theists and atheists have different basis which culminates in them moral/immoral values.
Shantnu These go by the name of sympathy, self-sacrifice, affection, mercy, kindness, compassion and love actually----love is their composite form.
Student Dada, then it is only love, in its maturing form that inculcates emotional richness, and reflects in different shades of human personality. Then why a theist is considered irrational?
Shantnu The facts are otherwise. Rationalists are the most immature species. Their system of logic is based on disbelief, which automatically debars them from knowledge. If you close your mind to all the available channels of options and start from only circumvent of disbelief, you have automatically closed your mind to accept the very fact of the existence of that subject which is the subject matter of a proven theory and only then should make it a subject of our research. We may improve upon the theory or completely disapprove it, is another matter, but initially we must give due weight-age to an established theory. Therefore, the so called rationalists are the irrational minority in themselves, the minority of intellectuals who are rich in emotional content only.
Student Then atheism is the tribe of rationalists, is it not so?