Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00180)

At 07:28 AM 4/23/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/22/99 10:01:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>ramadoss@eden.com writes:
>
><< Religions have caused such huge suffering over thousands of years, one
> wonders it is not time for some of us who can see the suffering cannot
> raise above the organized religions and work for the elimination of the
> suffering. At the present rate, these kinds of horrors are likely to
> continue for ever unless the average man/woman starts thinking clearly so
> that we also do not fall into the "religious" trap.
> 
> Theosophy should help. >>
>
>Doss,
>
>In my opinion, religion is not really the problem here, the unequal 
>distribution of wealth is. It lies at the bottom of every social dilemma the 
>world has ever known. Religion becomes an opiate for the masses' when the 
>"mass" is poor, hungry and suffering. Religions are organized nurtured and 
>grow by giving hope and charity to the weak and the hopeless. They are the 
>ones who keep religions alive and strong. Blind faith in a certain belief 
>system is the only choice that ignorance can make. Meanwhile, the struggle 
>for power and more wealth that goes on at the top of the pecking order has 
>nothing to do with religion, only as it serves the purpose of those who are 
>expanding their greed and selfishness. 
>
>Louis

Dear Louis: 

What you say may be partially true. There have been horrors committed
during the partition of British India into present India and Pakistan. Many
are the stories of people belonging to hindu and moslem faith, many highly
educated turning into violence against neighbors with whom they have lived
for scores of years. There seems to come a point when people are possessed
by the blind passions flamed by the politicians and clerics. 

mkr



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