Right from our childhood our mind is conditioned to believe that “be at your best behavior or else god will punish you by piercing your eyes etc.” This indeed forces us as kids to be at our best behavior i.e. not to demand toys, ice-creams, not to tell lies etc. Indeed, as a kid I was afraid of huge pic of kaali dangling her tongue out – it was a red dcm calendar and couple of year back I found the same calendar in circulation. My five year old cousin, krish, got his first lesson.
While playing with two more kids at his house, the cell-phone became untraceable and when search was launched, he put the blame on a small girl saying that, “she has stolen the phone ma!”. His mother was horrified to hear this allegation. The serials were showing the effect. The little girl started crying as a measure of protest. Eventually the phone was found behind the sofa. This was not the end. His mother was preparing aaloo-puri and little krish rushed to gobble up the hot pooris and ended up with almost burnt lips. The little girl replied, “see! The god has punished you for lying”.
Elsewhere, young men and women are recruited to spread terror in the name of securing place in jannat. Do we need an external motivation in form of god and religion to do and not to do certain acts?
Good post. There is often a fine line between religion inspiring terror, and inspiring terrorism.
ReplyDelete