It is amusing to know the perception of how one is labelled under a religious category. If you are born in the Middle East, you are a Muslim, if you are born in India, you are a Hindu and if you are born in Europe or America, you are a Christian. Looks like religious beliefs are more geographically inclined and not through divine providence. People invoke the argument that "If you were born in X country/region, you'd belong to a particular religion predominant in that area”. I believe the idea behind that argument is that since those who are born in a country belong to a particular religion then majority must belong to that religious identity only. I can admit there is some logic to that, but I find this argument erroneous. The other way of people arriving to such conclusion is based on legends of gods that exist in that geographical region. Hence, the land takes the religious identity. Eventually those born in the country carry the same religious identity. This inadvertently limits gods and religious identity to a particular region and territory.
The problem further escalates when people of a particular religion enforce their faith on people of other faith living there and try to expand their territory. This makes gods less powerful than man as they determine a god’s place of abode and territory. In trying to be an ambassador for their gods, man has turned into a beast. He hurts, kills, destroys people, demolishes worship facilities and promotes by enforcing his idea of who God is and what God wants.
The moral law, meaning a sense of right and wrong has become a dichotomy. Love, peace and harmony are a gamble today. Man is writing the stories of God based on what he wants and how he wants to be treated. People carve God based on their imagination that would give them the liberty to live as one pleases yet be in a miserable state. Religious places and facilities are means to promote their religion and faith. Hardly one wants to probe the true version of who God is and how a God should be. If we were to observe objectively, people live better lives than existing gods. Some stories of gods are limited to man’s imagination and documented under the category of mythology. Some have lived a miserable life and passed away and some left this earth with frustrations.
All religions are not the same as people claim. Superficially they are one but fundamentally different. The protagonist of the story, God, is important to be researched. Most of the stories of gods states they lived for themselves and passed away. But it is not the same in the case of Jesus. He lived a holy life, claimed He is the way, the truth and the life, He raised people from death, healed the sick, preached about repentance and commanded people to repent of their sins. He confirmed life after death. He proved it by predicting the nature of His death and about His resurrection. Finally, He was resurrected. He never demanded to build Churches but instead asked to preach about repentance, to believe in Him to be saved from sins and have hope of eternal life, a life after death spent in heaven with God. The greatest purpose of man is to know the true God and have a fellowship with him, more importantly a God who rose from dead. Jesus not only resurrected but promised to live in human heart.
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