Faith and Humanity

Not a philosopher just a normal human being. Not an atheist just a normal believer of an omnipresent. But certainly a staunch supporter of good for the humanity.

As a child, I was raised in the church. Baptized while I was a wee kid, went to all the Sunday school classes, sang hymns and lyrics in choir, attended all the Sunday masses and as for all Christian kids, communion was the path of righteousness. This has been one of the causes for my conscience during all of my teenager years as well as all through knowingly or unknowingly. To see the good at it’s face value and to take the bad with it’s ugly face. To differentiate the rights and the wrongs. To speak up my mind and to keep my peace. To be who I am rather than who others wanted me to be.

To say the least, I had grown emotionally and mentally even before my teens turned twenties. Life experiences and decisions were thrown at me or rather taken up intentionally so that I could be the way that ‘God’ wanted me to be. To be good. To be happy. To know the reality. To take decisions that was right even though it was not mentioned in any book or guide or even considered easy by anyone. To understand, to stand and defend my inner voice. It has been not an easy path and I never expected it to be. But to be my own version of good is a motivation that encouraged me then and now.

Having said that, there are many life stories that can be shared from then and now. But today I just wanted to write about an article that was sent across by a friend while having an in depth conversation about Divorce. Of how the words, ‘What god has joined together let no man put asunder’ was just thrown in to justify the need to not get out of an unhealthy relationship. Of how having less faith than the husband, the wife left him to pursue another relationship. This is an old news article about one of my favorite singers, Amy Grant. Am not a relationship expert, but the way the article portrayed how you should have stayed in the relationship because it is God’s will, just did not make any sense to me. Am not tagging the link as this is my personal opinion. As some people do not understand where to draw the line where a life becomes dark, to just impose the ‘written word’ on a decision taken by human beings and ‘authorized’ by the church, and to term it as God’s will.

I believe in the almighty, of the goodness of his heart to create all the living beings. However, when blindly followed there are lives at stake, there is sanity of human beings at stake and to quote ‘companionship’ is at stake. There are various levels of interpretations and facts that can be made out of this. But when you see a life clearly being on the verge of giving up on it’s own, how would or could you just tie it to the simple sentence of the wedding vows uttered by the priest? We are human at the end of the day and as leeway God’s son died on the cross to atone for our sins. As lightly as I have put it across, that does not mean it is a pass to do something which we know is wrong in our minds.

True, these days the divorce rates are going unprecedentedly high. And as companionship goes, it is the lives of the humans in it. Most of the times, the root cause of the failure comes back to the society (collection of human beings just like you and me) which has not grown with fast pace changes of today’s world. If we try to claw back the times and methods used, you are never going to find solace in the age old foundation of being a family (companionship), which is the crux of the matter. Let that be a church, a religion, caste, creed, sexual preference, skin colour or any human factors. And to deem it as God’s will that would be highest of all hypocrisies.