Everything Stops for London

It's saddening to see the extent humans will go to prove a point: 38 (and counting) deaths and countless injured. What were these people thinking??? Al-qaeda it seems, but whoever the perpetrators are, they are not fit to be called human beings. What more when they claim to be doing all this for their religion/religious beliefs.

This draws up a very serious point. For ages, the struggles on earth was not actually between Man and Man (Country vs. Country). It has actually always been Man vs. God. Throughout the years, and a few thousand years at that, MAN has been trying to define religion their own way. This has led to misrepresentations of the holy scriptures, and until more recently, man has started to come up with their own 'holy scriptures'. It is an incessant trend in modern times where post-modernism is the philosophy of the day. We tend to pick and choose the seemingly 'good points' from religions all over the place and thus, we have no backbone in our beliefs.

Why I say that we do not have a backbone when the logic is that "we are taking all the good points in a religion and eliminating the bad teachings". Let's draw inspiration from the tried and tested religions/faiths that have influenced more than half the world; Judaism, Christianity, Islam and in more recent times, Buddhism

I seriously cannot comprehend the fact that some people out there are drawing inspiration from these 'Big' religions and concocting their own religion out of what they think are the good points of this. What's the issue with these people? Greed for power issit? Cannot make it through the system and be a Chief-Rabbi/Chief-Priest/Ketua-Imam/Head-Monk (sorry for the unsolicited job titles) so you come out and open your own shop issit??? If you can't make it in the real world, then you create your own organisation issit?? This is exactly how cults start off!!!

It is due to the fact that there are such people out there who will come up with their own notion of what religion should be without considering the fact that these major religions are there and have been there since time immemorial. They are here today because they have a certain credibility to them and they have learned from their trials and errors, and their system has been intact for thousands of years. There's a saying 'You know it's good if it's been going on for thousands of years.'

There is a reason why you get to see the good things and bad things about a religion. Because they have been in operation for countless years, they have seen humanity at its worst and have therefore, learnt from it. When you embrace the traditional religions, you are embracing a system of beliefs that have stood the test of time. But when you embrace a new religion, like say the most famous now is 'the church of scientology' which our favourite actor Tom Kurus has been promoting, you are embracing an imperfect collage of what a few people think religion should be. Think for yourself. Think again. Where is the sense in that?

Let's face it. Man has always been struggling with God. We have always been the one who wants to control our own lives. We embrace a faith that is good for us, not because it makes us a better person, it's because we can live with it, it suits our lifestyle, it gives us benefits. It's always about Us, Ourselves, Me, I, Moi!

The war of 'Who is the better religion' is just a side track. In this post-modern world, man is always the centre of the universe. The popular thinking of today is "I choose to believe in what I deem is best for me", see the problem??? How educated are you??? How smart are you?? How much of the world have you seen??? Can your mere 40 years of existing on earth be compared to a system that has been handed down through time??? How much can you learn in your own lifetime?? How easy is it for YOU, a mere speck in the timeline of history, to misread, misrepresent, and mislead people into doing something like the bombing of Central London???

Think again.