EVEN A DULL RIVER HAS A DEEP RELIGION
"This dull river has a deep religion of its own." - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I n matters of our religious faith, all of us are encouraged to ‘believe’, mostly, without questioning. And, hence, we call ourselves - ‘believers'! This is true of all religious faiths… As a Christian (Catholic), to me, Mother Mary will, always, remain a ‘Virgin Mary’, even though she gave birth to Jesus. I shall, always, believe, that she was ‘physically’ taken up into Heaven, by God’s angels, at the end of her earthly life… I shall, always, believe, that Jesus rose to life on the third day from his death… I shall, always, believe in the simple theory of how God created this Universe, including Adam and Eve… I am a 'faithful' Christian, if I accept all these myths and stories as ‘truths’… Yes, if I question less. And, that’s how it is in every religion. The other day, I was at one of my friends’ place. They were Sikhs. Wh...