Before Leaving… This is my penultimate post. May be.., slightly lengthy one. Those who are busy may please stop reading further. Six months back, I read a story in which a village girl child gets attached to a goat and cries a lot when that goat is taken for a sacrifice. ‘keda vettu’ in Tamil. Her mother convinces the child stating that it is for the God she is doing. Then finally the child asks, ‘if it is for the God, will you sacrifice me too?’ and the story ends. In November, I was discussing about this story with my cab driver on the way to Tirunelveli. He told that there are people who even sacrifice own children for this religious purpose. I could not believe it. I checked up with some reliable friends, who confirmed that these things are happening even now. They told… “it may not be their own children.., but these things are 100% happening.” I was shocked. I am a non-believer for nearly 30 years. My friends, Gopi (Singanallur) and Krishnan (Air Force) know how much I was strong in that view even at the age of 18. Also my family is well aware of that. But normally, I don’t interfere in other’s sentiments. Only at times, I show disrespect to the beliefs of my close friends and family members. Even though I am a non-believer and do not follow any religion, the same things - whatever happens to others - happen to me too… some good things and some bad things… some good days and some bad days… Nothing very special for being non-religious. My life is as normal as others. But, as you can expect, people tell the bad things as the punishments given to me by God. When a lady told me that my autistic son is the result of my non belief in God, I told her clearly, “I am sure there is no God to make my child like that. But taken for instance that you are right.., then.., if your omni-potent God punishes my child for the reason I don’t salute him, I further disrespect your God to the core and I will spit on his face”….. I know several religious people with autistic children. For quite some time, I kept my thoughts with me and my family; and I never thought about the society. But this information about child sacrifices was very disturbing. I could not believe it. Whether belief can influence that much? Is it not sheer madness?? Then I decided to come out of the shell. I should not confine myself with my family. The people of our villages must be educated. The facebook friends are not my target audience. I have to go to the villages. I realized. I decided to dedicate my rest of life for a cause. So, in December, I thought of coming out of many activities including facebook and do some spade work for my mission. But one thing was really a question for me. Whether belief has that much power to kill small children?? I decided to test it in facebook and hence I continued it. I started putting non-religious posts in my page. Most of them did not receive any response. But I could realize; people started slowly avoiding me. Even no likes for my normal posts. I was becoming notorious. People might be thinking, “What happened to this fellow??” But since the facebook account holders are normally above average people, they did not attack me directly. But it was evident, when it comes between their belief and Rajaram, they prefer to stick to their beliefs and forego Rajaram. I further did the same study with my close friends in the office, neighbourhood and family members. It was very clear; they were willing to cut my relationship for safeguarding their beliefs. Now it is nothing but sacrificing me for their beliefs…. And the question is… do they know whether the beliefs are really correct?? You are killing or spoiling the relationship for one belief… A woman killing a child for one belief… And at the first place, whether that belief is absolutely right? Ram lovers fighting with Jesus lovers; Jesus lovers fighting with Allah lovers… And how long it will go on like this. Apart from this, at every level, people cheat innocent people in the name of God. How many swamijis and astrologers are misusing village people of India? So I am now convinced. 1. People can sacrifice people for their beliefs. 2. If the fundamental belief system is to be broken, non-believers can only do. 3. Roughly non-believers to believers proportion is not more than 1:10000. 4. There are lakhs of religious people having livelihood on these beliefs and hence they will not allow beliefs to subside. 5. If the small number of non-believers do not rise up, these things will not have any opposition. So, it is my responsibility to do something now before I die… And the date of my death is not known… I don’t want to write further. With this, abruptly I am ending my post. After this, there will be only one post from my end; an album containing 10 photos. Till the month end, ie., for 4 days including today, these posts will remain open. And on 31st March, I shall deactivate my facebook account. Good-bye.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:22:14 +0000
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