'I AM'.

Do we need 'God'? 

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Question :
The problem with religion and cults of all kinds is that people claim to know too much, they are not willing to live in the light of ignorance and in the absence of closure to reach the edges of reality and reveal one's own insight'...
My Answer :
There is no problem with religion or cults, because they all are collective efforts to achieve some imagined 'ideal', and they do harm every individual who is earnestly seeking light, trying to understand meaning of existence. He is not trying to gain 'knowledge', but the meaning only. While a religion is ridden with beliefs, concepts, and 'faith' mostly 'irrational'. And a common logic helps us to understand this trick religion plays with the human-lot. So applying this logic at once lets us free from those irrational religions which exploit human beings either through sentiments, authority, fear, or dogma.
Most religions are based on the 'thought' of God. One or many. And no one tells us why we need this 'God', which is so alien a concept to us. And why we can't live happily without knowing this 'God' - 'in the light of ignorance'? There are seekers of happiness only everywhere One tries to do what one feels makes him happy. Or, removes the sorrow, pain, misery, disease. 'Death' too, because though no one could ever 'experience' death in an ontological way,one sees others 'die', and imagines one's own death like-wise. Though one never knows what this means. And then religions and cult instill all rubbish about heaven and hell and that man-made 'God' sitting there above 7 clouds and makes us dance upon his whimsical tunes, which all 'religions' and 'cults' claim to know and so force upon other less intelligent men. But if we find out in our 'light of ignorance', which tells us 'I don't know' , and which also tells us 'I am' we can carefully proceed towards understanding what exactly 'I am' means. And NO, don't seek help from those religions which claim to interpret or explain this to you through scriptures. For that would be a diversion from the direct instruction you got from your own being, where 'I am' stands eternally.
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