From A Seenager’s Corner _ Let Us Walk The Walk _ Part Three

Welcome to our part three of, “Let Us Walk The Walk.” In this part, we shall appreciate our religious ignorance and discuss how to handle it. They say creation is over four billion years old. Therefore religion is about that old too. And they say religion is too complex to be discussed. But I say that can’t be entirely true, if one is broadminded and tolerant. After all, religion being just an afterthought of man, his action is predominantly based on his environment and his personal ambition to prove that he has something better to offer. This in itself isn’t a bad idea. What is bad is the rubbishing act of his predecessor’s ideas. What moral right can anyone have to rubbish the ideas and achievements of his predecessor? And since series of religions were being born from time to time in all the nations for over four billion years, and all claiming to be worshipping God without God objecting, how can anyone claim in the last two thousand years that God suddenly decided to anoint only his religion? At this point, I wish to digress for just a moment and ask, “Why are we so insensitive? A Romanian Minister just quit, over corruption allegations. And here we are, shamelessly basking in corruption, sitting tight and sadly being celebrated.”

And back to our topic. Before the advent of modern religions, we had thousands of religions otherwise known as traditional religions, and they all co-existed harmoniously. They are our traditional religions and relevant to our people, just as these modern and foreign religions are traditional and relevant to their people in their various places of origin. Ask any very senior Seenageer, and you will be to told how every tribe in our nation respected the Gods of her neighbouring tribes; just as the Indians who have over thirty three thousand Gods do. They celebrate each others’ faiths. And in all four billion years plus, God never told any tribe that He was being worshipped wrongly. Why should we continue to celebrate our ignorance? Just as we don’t know and will never ever know how and why God created Himself, we shall never ever know why He created us so differently. Why can’t we appreciate that our problem is greed, ignorance and intolerance? Let us work on it.

I have always said that in the beginning, every tribe of the world knew their creator and called Him by different names according to their different tribes and ethnicity. And they had their varied cultures too; for whatever reasons only the Creator is privileged to know. Creation took care of everything for our individual benefits. There is a place for every being and everything in creation. Take the soil for example. You have soil everywhere, but the mango tree does not grow in all the soils. Just as the fish that comes to my fresh water river, will not go to all and every other fresh water river. It is my considered opinion that if we spend half the amount of time and energy that we spend in knowing the creation and culture of just one tribe of the world, on our own creation and culture, we shall be better for it. May we be granted the courage to appreciate that if God wanted us to all be the same, He wouldn’t have created us so differently. In Part Four, we shall discuss how to gather the funds to effectively have, “The Change We Need.”