Did you choose your religion?
Two little kids were playing in a kiddie swimming
pool. One of them was a Hindu and the other – you guessed it – a Muslim. The
children were also conscious of their being incompatible with each other. This
incompatibility awareness is in the DNA of people. We all want to prove that we
are better than the others. So we make systems like caste, gender, religion,
political parties… Blacks and Whites and Brownies… Chinkies and Pinkies and Cookies…
The kids in the DLF Paradise
Apartment kiddie pool also carried in their veins the inescapable DNA inherited
from their parents as well as a nationalism that had gone juvenile just when
they were being conceived – not too later than 2014.
It was purely by chance that the
shorts of one of the kids slipped. Wardrobe malfunction, you could call it. But
that malfunction led to an enlightenment for the kids. The other kid lowered
its shorts too to say that there’s something wrong. Something different, it
was. But children don’t understand differences. Variety is for adults. Children
love uniformity. Homogeneity. Like One Nation One Religion and so on.
With their knickers down from where
they should have been, the children saw life from an enlightened perspective.
This is the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim.
They are children. We can forgive the
immaturity of their enlightenment. What about us, adults?
You are an adult, aren’t’ you? Where
did you get your religion from? Just the same source as your gender, right? You
were born with a gender and a religion. You didn’t choose your religion any
more than you did your gender.
Your religion is an imposition on
you. As much as your gender is.
I’m kidding.
Because I’m writing this for
Indispire Edition 464
A little boy and
a little girl, one Hindu and the other Muslim, are in a children's pool where
they happen to see each other's genitals quite by chance. Oh! This is the
Hindu- Muslim difference! #Learning
But you aren't really kidding are you? Facts are facts😂
ReplyDeleteIsn't it safer to pretend? 😅
DeleteYou are effortlessly funny.Bet you got lot of admirers back in your young days.
ReplyDeleteNot really. People always belonged to one sect or another. And i didn't know where i belonged. So i was kinda syupid 😊
DeleteReligion is something you're born with? Wow. No wonder I'm doing it wrong.
ReplyDeleteHaha... Yeah, Liz, some of us just don't get it right.
DeleteSatirical, Yet Awesome 😊
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThat was the basis on which so many lost their lives! With their shorts down!
ReplyDeleteYes and tragically so!
DeleteReligions are man made but gender is not. In the matter of faith we can move either or more sides. Although religions have so many draw backs I feel it is an inevitable matter in the society. So let it be.
ReplyDeleteI let it be. But they don't let others be. That's the problem.
DeleteI often think that The Creator is up there lamenting the fact they spend so long to give us Brains that we have no intention of using!
ReplyDeleteOr as Nietzsche said, the Creator must have died laughing at what we are doing.
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