What's the use of having a religion if you do it anyway??

(WARNING: this writing is purely self reflection)


What's the use of praying to God if we kill?

What's the use of praise God's name if we committed crime and corruption?

What's the use of coming to the House of God if we cheat, lie and make others suffering?

What's the use of reading God's words if we don't let pregnant woman and old people to stand up in the crowded bus or trian while we sit comfortably?

What's the use of telling the world that we have religion if we throw garbage where you want and smoke in front of non-smokers?

TELL ME!! Somebody tell me...

What's the use of having or believing in a religion if we do it anyway?? If we defy all the good things that religion has telling us to do so??

Religion, some say, is a way of life. To praise the Almighty, to thank for the life we have. Religion give us a guidence on how to live the so-called human short life in a good way. So that at the end of the road, we can be given a ticket to heaven.

So, do we think that having a religion is enough without living the good guidence? Or do we think that interpreting it in our religious way that defy other religion means we gonna get a free pass to heaven?

Do we get a free pass by committing crime, corruption and killing? Do we think we can get the free pass if what we basically do is breaking all the basic rules of human relations??

Oh maybe I'm mistaken in interpreting religion..

I am sorry.. Maybe I should interpret it this way

That God and our religion is a scapegoat! A scapegoat for our guilt and wrong doings. So when we think we did something wrong or harming other human being, all we need to do is praying to God and then we will be forgiven. But then, we do it again and again and again.. And we pray and ask for forgiveness and again and again..

"ah, I'm tired today. Some other young man should give that old lady a seat. Not me"

So we come to God and ask for forgiveness then we wil do it again if we feel tired in a crowded bus.

Oh we must be kidding ourself! We are supposed to praise the God and live the way the religion has said, not making God a scapegoat!

Rather than telling the world we are religious, why don't we just try to use our heart. Ask our heart..

We, human, is Made from blood, flesh, brain and heart. Ask our heart first, learn to listen and use it. Teach ourself to use our heart..

Then i believe we wont make God our scapegoat. Someone from my past said she didnt have a religion just because his parent never introduce her to God. But her kindness to me, her respect to my life and my religion surpass some other people who tell me how to praise God in a good way.

Then i ask myself, how could she be so kind and understanding? While she tells me she didnt even believe in God? Didnt someone once told me that it is the religion teaching that teach us how to be kind to other?

Ah, now i understand.. It is not our religion that teach us how to use our heart and to be kind to other. It is our self! It is our self that learn how to use our heart.

So, stop making excuse in the name of God and religion if we committ crimes to other. It is us, ourself that did it and hold responsible about it. Ask our heart and stop making God and religion our scapegoat.

And i need to remind myself too, that there is no free pass to heaven.

p.s. I would like to ask for deepest forgiveness if you who read this feel that my writing has hurt your feeling. There is no such intention. This writing is purely a reflection to myself.