From childhood, it’s the Fear element that dominates our lessons; parents and elders at home, teachers in school use this sense of fear to instill discipline - “do this or else”….its always threats with a fear of punishment… not knowing better and more effective ways to win over the young minds.
Besides such instilled fear, there is this natural fear…. fear of monsters, fear of Ghosts….. Well, what is true, is not the existence of a monster out there to catch you, or ghosts out there to scare you, but the sense of Fear…. monsters may not be real, but the fear IS real.
Similarly small minded people use religion to scare and instill fear; bordering on “religious pornography”; Why should a person be God Fearing?? Why can’t one be “God Loving”? Why can’t the religion teach the followers to ‘love’ God rather than ‘fear’ God?? We often attribute acts of nature to God….God is Loving…. but Nature is Blind….
received this as part of shared thoughts from Mr. Mohandas K P
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