After reading a blog post of mine ( Legal Lawbreakers ), an ex-colleague of mine sent me a message yesterday that the criminals would be punished by God. She has absolute faith in her God, she wrote. Is there any justification for such faith? Nowhere in the history of mankind do we get any reason to believe that divine intervention has awarded justice to any people at any time. On the contrary, we have infinite examples to show how the wicked flourish and the naive perish. It is easy to delude ourselves with such beliefs as divine justice after death. Hell and heaven, the Judgment Day, Karmic consequences, and other such religious carrots-and-sticks don’t serve any purpose to make human life more equitable on the planet. Religions also offer believers ways to circumvent the stick and secure the carrot: a confession or a bath in the Ganga or some other ritual can wash away your sins. If religion were indeed effective in he...
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