Faith, doubt and Religion.

Mutation of the Mind.

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The man who is but one of the many creatures, evolved into a being through millennia, one who has developed a language which enabled him in associating spoken words with outward objects and then remember the word and associate the word with yet another word so as to develop this further into spoken language. This way, then he could transform the object(s) into an idea.

The congregation of such a multiplicity of ideas further evolved and developed into a complex faculty of thinking where he could relate an idea with any or many other such ideas.

Before the arrival of this skill on the part of his mind / brain, man might be having a memory of the same kind as all other creatures might had. We can say, all those creatures followed  their experiences in the audio-visual forms only, without associating a spoken word or a meaning in terms of a word, which they could associate further with another.

In a way, this memory of an experience, without giving it a name was kind of photographic one. Then the creatures might have related such many memories with an object that could help them behave in such a way, so as to solve their that particular problem.

For example, the relation of the needs like thirst, hunger, the survival and such, and how it could be met successfully. This was prompted by the very experience which then became their habit, and they could live on in a machinical way, face the usual challenges of life, moment to moment.

All this was very simple for them, and they might have kept improving their skills on and on. 

But all this remained at the level where only a glimpse of the past that happened, and of the future that might come, could be there in their mind. 

While in the case of the man, because he could  think in words, and then visualize a picture as well, he could imagine the supposed past event and anticipate a possible future one, in detail.  Not only this, he could further envisage a 'time-interval' so as to think of history of an infinity of such events.

Likewise, he could project and even plan such a future as well. He began to think in terms of the certainty and how he could achieve any certain result of any of his actions.

He became a dreamer and perhaps a visionary as well. Instead he chose to create a middle path, which others could follow. He became the leader, guide, teacher and he had now a mission as well.

In a nutshell, this all was his ambition only.

Others either followed him, accompanied him,  or turned against him.

He invented 'God', defined this 'God' in such a way, so as to suit to his ambition, and as much perfect as he could imagine.

Because of fear and insecurity, greed and hope, others followed this religion.

There might be the doubt, but they couldn't dare, to define this doubt, nor see. Confusion, and fear simmered underneath, and though the guide himself was not sure, the faith arrived on one or the other pretext, and then arrived the tradition.

Then the doubt lurking in the mind of the man, persisted, transformed into various theories and  philosophies, questioning the very existence of such a God, there were many such masters and teachers again, who claimed to be the final and the ultimate.

This all resulted into all these religions and their sects, spread all over the whole world.

Wars were, and are fought even today, between all these different followers of these so many religions and we can't even hope or say, if and when, how all this could come to end.

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