Sunday musings “... if God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘I command that you be happy in the world, as long as you live.’ What would you do then?” That’s one of the questions that has remained with me ever since I read Richard Bach’s Illusions as a twenty year-old man. It remained somewhere within me without affecting me really in any significant way. Later on, as a teacher, I used it many times in the class for conveying certain messages effectively. Disclaimer: I don’t believe in God. But I don’t question anyone’s faith. What I question is the exploitation of people in the name of gods and faith. I have seen many people drawing the much needed psychological (call it spiritual, if you prefer) sustenance from their religious faith. I’d be the last person to take away such sustenance from anyone. There are times when I felt that religious faith would be a blessing. It can be a free panacea for certain ills that plague mankind in general and indivi
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