Religion

When we human developed the sign of intelligence, a suffering came along with it - Curiosity. Our ancestor developed many things because of this curiosity and yeah many of them would have died in their journey to develop these things. The landmark event in the human history was the development of agriculture nearly 10,000 years ago. This development changed everything for humans, we started developing huge settlements because of this. Which ultimately brought the concept of land.

Why I mentioned curiosity as suffering?                                                                      Its because curiosity forced us to question. One who could answer these questions made us a believer in it. Now the brain which can answer question was given the duty to decide how things should be followed. How system should work and things like that. Our history tell us about great interpreter like Kautilya whose wisdom in running state still helps us. And there were people who answered the cosmological questions in their own way to satisfy the curiosity of other minds as they could interpret. People started following and worshiping these people because they had answers to their problems. Ultimately giving rise to Religion.

Each religion tackled the problem in their own way but all had the same motive to reach the truth. There are books like Veds, Bible, Guru Granth Sahib, Quran etc. which tells us what they use to believe but with time these knowledge lost it's true sense because of greed of humans which is also a cause of curiosity. People started preaching knowledge in their own ways some advancing it and some moulding it for their own good ultimately greed overshadowed the good. This lead to most inhuman things in the human population. It gave rise to inequality. I belong to a Hindu family so I would explain for my religion. The caste system was never there in the foundation of Hinduism. There was mention of Varns which tells one's duty but in course of time greed eroded this as well. Varn system was converted to Caste system and the holder of those knowledge brought injustice to a large population classifying them inferior on the basis of work. In Varn system no work is considered any less than other. 

Later situation started to worsen. When land holding and superiority got connected human brain found way to feed it's animal roots. They created a system where land mattered more than the dignity of one. Most of those acts were quite known to us like Female Genital Mutilation, Self Flagellation, Baby tossing and many such evil practice in the name of religion which actually were to feed the animal they had within themselves.

But today with all these advancements in knowledge and all these technologies and with these discoveries many of things which were believed to be true in ancient times are no longer can be hold true but many moral knowledge in them still have importance and if these morals acquired by the human society, The world surely be a better place.   

Today Science is also a kind of religion because it answers most of questions and makes our life easier. Now assume if some another discipline develops and change everything we assumed as wrong or an alien life comes to earth and answer the unanswered mysteries which exist in today's world, we will start follow them what they tell us. The knowledge we currently have will advance over time and truths which we hold true today will no longer be accepted.

What if we didn't take a step ahead in the matter of knowledge, What than?            Than subject science will be withdrawn, there will be issues of trust because of static nature as happened to the religion. The society will be transferred in the hand of those animal humans again.