T H E Q. R. CODE.

The Quit Religion Code

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From the very beginning of the civilization, there have been many different traditions of beliefs / faiths, owned and practiced by the many people of the various different places on the earth.

The beliefs, faiths, no doubt are the prerogative of the individual, but are essentially made of the stuff that is thought. The 'Thought', as noun, and also as a verb. Thought is the very fabric of any belief and faith. In the absence of the thought, no belief or faith could ever exist, nor practiced.

This practice of a tradition is what religion is all about. No thought, no belief. Neither faith, nor the practice of the Same.

Consequently over the time, prompted by these different beliefs and faiths, different and many a traditions, and the practice of them, evolved out many religions upon the earth.

A belief or a faith is essentially a 'Thought' or an 'idea' only, in terms of a set of words. Yet  these words originate from a language that facilitates the communication of this or that thought or the idea.

This is because the words do have a meaning and a purpose in the day to day conversation, and its also true that the most useful words are often, of help. Thus we have a set of synonyms and we tend to believe, this is knowledge. Then we have many languages and we try to translate a word of one language into a word of the other.

This gives the illusion that we know.

At the mundane level a society could use many a spoken words and according to convention, it became the language of the kind.

But as soon as man learnt to associate a word with an object, he also began to give names to his feelings.

The feelings were of course of the kind of those like apprehension, desire, fear, hope, joy, sorrow,  jealousy, even attachment, love, passion, and the rest. A sense of the hypothetical "time", in terms of the present, the past and the future. 

Just as we don't have a common world, we also don't have a common past, present, or future.

Then how could we talk about a collective one, which is forced upon us by any religion?

Yet fascinated and bemused by the thought that there exists such a common world and its past, present and future, we keep on striving to attain goals in this hypothetical world, in this assumed future, which differ from person to person.

Then each and every person has a memory that is the storehouse of the incidents pleasant / not so pleasant. This is because every experience helps us in learning how to face the challenges posed by the life, from moment to moment, and how to survive and thrive. No doubt, Knowledge is of utmost importance.

So, only because of our memory, an idea of the past takes place in the mind, and a future too is projected there.

So long as we live in the now and don't translate the past and future in the sense of "time", we do well, and live the life moment to moment in the now / present. This now / present is a moment, which has neither a past nor a future. Yet it's so alive. Subsequently, there is a memory in terms of the assumed past and a hypothetical future.

The memory soon caused a sense and pattern of the "psychological time" which was known to the man in the evolution of the civilization.

So there is an individual time and an individual world for everyone. Still, he somehow started to believe in the existence of a world, common to all, and could not see, there is really no such a world common to all. This world again needs to be ascertained repeatedly moment to moment.

A few powerful then started to force their own thought upon the weak.

This is the very foundation of a tradition, which soon took the form of a religion. No religion is exception to this. 

For living and surviving in a society, one can find a tradition helpful to some extent. But the same becomes a conflict and a burden also, when one comes across yet another, that differs with that, -what one is used to.

A man born in a tradition may find it difficult to comply with and to follow the rigorous and strict discipline imposed upon him by his tradition.

Consequently, there was clash between different traditions, and religion dictated the traditions to use the power and it's till date the same.

All the religions of the past had / have the same story. That is how there were and are rebels who denied the authority of the organised religion.

This could be called the Q. R. Code, where an individual quits the tradition, beliefs, and faith of the tradition, in which he was born and brought up.  And still, may or may not embrace another tradition / religion, because he can see, know, realize for himself that all, and every organised religion is the very cause of conflict only.

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