Need for revamping religion

Today I wasted few of my hard earned dollars and of course, time on a movie "Constantine". The movie was based on the Christian concept of heaven and hell. Thinking profoundly on this concept disturbed me about the fact that all the recent religions are based on shallow concept of reward and punishment. The need of the hour is revamping all the religions over the world and making them philosophically strong.

Let me clarify that I am a Hindu by birth and an atheist by practice. How does an atheist practice is a whole new discussion.

The present major religions practiced: Christianity, Islam, Brahmanism, and Buddhism are corrupted by the incompetent incumbent. I refer to the present form of practice of Hindu religion as Brahmanism. The Underlying philosophy is much more extensive and extensible. The philosophy does not demand a certain ritualistic kind of life. It demands the search for ones own “Dharma” and truthful following of it and respect for the dharma of others. Dharma can be conceived, conceptualized as one’s duty or properties. Even non-living things have a dharma of ones own. An iron had a dharma to glow when heated. Similarly each person understands his dharma and duty and performs it with devotion. The fruits of the work are not the goal of your life, but the path itself is. One needs to be satisfied by performing the duty or dharma. The consequence, result of the dharma should not be the aim. Even a Christian by definition is following the Hindu philosophy and so are people of other religions. The respect for the dharma of other people is the main ingredient missing in today’s people.

There is a certain need to disassociate the philosophy with the Hindu religion. Associating it to Hinduism makes people critical and blind to the essence of the philosophy. The philosophy should be accepted as the universal philosophy of mankind.

Strangely even atheist like me has space in this philosophy J:)