"Non-Mysterious Answers"

We live in this world where everything is very “HI-FI”, where Science is the answer for every question. So why do we need religion? I mean really why? Science is giving the answers to all the doubtful areas of life, that once where the domain of religion and belief. Does this not prove that religion is merely an empire of ignorance and fools who wish to believe in stories purely based on what they refer to as "Faith"? However their bewilderment towards why educated people still believe in religion has rather non-mysterious answers.


One of the main answers being, what essentially is called as the sense of security, and a sense of certainty in this uncertain world. No matter how intelligent, how intellectual or how developed our thinking is, our mind is still rooted to the very essence of religion. When we have an absolute faith in something, no matter for what practical reason, we always believe its, True. And it is this faith that keeps the light of religion alive within us.

The difficulty in dislodging a person's "faith" has to do with how often a person's religion is tied deeply into their culture, family, and place. Religion is an important means through which many people form an identity within their society. Your faith in, you and your religion give you this inner peace and satisfaction, which you will get from nowhere.

What we call the ‘religious attitude’ is the natural outcome of human’s intellectual and biological constitution. Humans are unable to explain to themselves the mystery of life, the mystery of birth and death, the mystery of infinity and eternity. Their reasoning stops before impregnable walls. When we come to the end of all our doubts and we are still left with no answer that’s when our belief in religion becomes deeper.

The human being, with all the intricate mechanism of his soul, with all his desires and fears, his feelings and his speculative uncertainties, sees himself faced by a nature in which bounty and cruelty, danger and security are mixed in a wondrous, inexplicable way and apparently work on lines entirely different from the methods and the structure of the human mind.

Never has purely intellectual philosophy or experimental science been able to solve this conflict. This exactly is the point where religion steps in. Finally there is the simple fact that none of us knows with 100% certainty what will happen to our consciousness after we die. Religion offers hope that this life is but one stage of existence.

If all these sounds like a bunch of romantic nonsense and self-delusion, then indeed perhaps it is. But for those of us who believe in a religion like me, they provide us with a feeling of contentment and hope that nothing else in this world provides. For that reason, I don't see religion disappearing anytime soon.