Gods must be crazy In Quote

It is encouraging in the interests of common sense and peaceful co-existence to read David Brown’s Nov 24 letter “Throwing off the shackles”, and the subsequent relating letters from Kuldeep Nagi and Col in Tak.

The three main religions were all conceived in the Middle East when knowledge of the world was limited and superstition rife. The fundamental failing of each belief is the claimed creators only spoke Arabic and Yiddish. The world at large was not addressed and each religion has its own god. Three separate gods were invented by three separate men all in the Middle East and all three gods are at loggerheads. Were there one god he would have announced himself to the whole of his creation.

A god/creator became the cause and reason for everything, the substitute for scientific enlightenment. God became sacrosanct as did anything claimed to be perpetrated in his name.

And so it remains to this day as Paris recently reminded us.

Buddha, 2,500 years ago, taught enlightenment of reality. Even today he is referred to as “an early scientist” while at the same time his teachings have become distorted into a pseudo-religion.

Religion fulfills mankind’s insatiable appetite for fantasy. Living with reality is common to us all: It’s better to stick with that and stop dreaming ourselves into deep trouble.

JC WILCOX