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Swords and religions

 Swords or guns can’t bring in large scale cult build ups.


Like we see people recently metamorphosing into new social order destroyers, due to some political favour or indoctrination they are showered with, people have been changing their faiths or adopting new opinion about gods for thousands of years regularly and repeatedly on some impulse. No one used to hold others differently on social scale due to that change in faith.

There had never been any anti defection law anywhere in the world in human history before foolishness descended upon our generation. Rigidity of faiths as we see presently is new phenomenon.

What path people followed spiritually had always been very fluid and they kept moving from one opinion about god and rituals to another depending on which preacher in neighbourhood influenced them. Some faiths were more widespread and we call those religions now. Swords had little sporadic role in that. It would be foolish to believe that super powerful Ghanzez Khan’s and Helago’s mangol decedents were brought into islam by some sword while they were successfully destroying the geographies themselves?

It’s not possible to change faith en masse unless indoctrinating powerfully or tempting appealingly those people who are intuitively submissive and weak. Only few of those directly under a gun or a sword would submit to a new faith permanently. Not millions or billions of ordinary public as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism brought in at different times with community indoctrination of their respective views about god and associated rituals.

BTW, All religions are curated myths bringing some false order into society or providing power and aura to some preacher or cunning ruler who themselves or their followers, wanted world to remember them as god’s images. These faiths always have limited utility for progress of the humanity the kind of what we achieved. Kings merely used faiths to rule and suppress masses as rulers are doing now.

Digital payments need review

‪In its present form digital payment system may be at core of widespread thuggery we are facing from smarter crooks who are tricking us into emptying our bank accounts in seconds. No where such blatant ease is offered to people for  transecting and transferring money without much restrictions and validations that it becomes equally easy for cheats to get into our accounts in seconds. This is not to disrespect Govt and hope hopping citizenry for having so much faith on this so called convenience of digital payment revolution which people claim is globally unique and is a fintech trophy only India could hold. It is not that such system is sort of unique technical achievement which no other country could evolve.  It is rather a decision to go for it or not. Most of the  advance nations have yet not decided on that. People there prefer to use physical card or mobile phone which is equally convenient but more secure. That ‘on the  go’ kind UPI  is excellent as currency less system but needs systemic background strengthening so that cheats can’t use bots and just a four digit pin to clean sweep our bank accounts.