It is an underlying fact that the emergence of religion is the outcome of human civilization. The seeds of religion were sown when mankind realized that albeit the same biological cycles like the animals, we are way superior to them. The animals only possess the sensory organs like human. It is we who knows how to control it and use it without creating harm to others. To the numerous founders religion was the hope to create a moral and just society. Religion transforms us from a crude boor to a refined cultured genteel being.
Religion postulates the concept of family, the concept of having one partner at a time. It teaches us to share and respect each other. It instructs to stand for self esteem and to have the strength to forgive. The absence of religion from our lives would make us lame. Religion created the superior power in order to make us realize that there is somebody up there who is seeing our all moves and so we should not defy ourselves.
It is surprising but a true fact that religion that made human to stand upright with bold shoulders is now considered a burden on our shoulders. With the passing of time the seedling of religion has been converted into a big fat tree with hundreds of branches of rules and thousands of sub branches of duties. Maybe due to some less knowledgeable people these rules and duties have out casted the essence of religion.
No matter how complicated and snarled religion has become today we can still rejuvenate its true essence and build a substantial human character. We need to distinguish between the crux of the religion and its extended absurd rules and impositions. Cause if we continue snubbing religion without knowing its core we would somehow become the same set of crude boors that we used to be thousands of years ago.
