Wednesday, September 29, 2010

An agnostic's FB reply to his fundamentalist school-friend

"And coming to the point of there being a mosque or not, I think I made it very clear in my status msg that I believe having a temple or a mosque over there is going to be equally useless (or even a church, a synagogue or a fire-temple for that matter). And I have never understood this concept of your god and my god - Greek and Latin might be more comprehensible to me. What Rajiv Gandhi did then and what Manmohan Singh and the Supreme Court do now is none of my concern, because I am content in my (human) life and don't need to worry about what happens on a little piece of land somewhere in UP - It will be like worrying about "who will be staying in my house 200 years from now". Obviously I do not care about the history (Thanks for the offer though).

"The only thing I know for sure is that the Universe (or the Multiverse if that appeals more) existed far before man and his temples / mosques / churches, and it is going to exist till eternity long after the last man is destroyed, and not a trace is left of any of his 'achievements', including religion. For the brief period of time that man lives, if he is keen to divide his race on the basis of the name that he wants to assign to the Universe and its Creator, then I am not interested in being a part of any such division. For holding this belief, I have been cursed and criticised too often, but an agnostic never really cared about others' opinions, did he?"