The Purpose of a Religion

What is the purpose of a religion? Is it to encourage its followers to kill those who are not followers? Is it to make humankind intellectually blind? Is it to be used as a tool to judge others according to an individual's point of view and condemn them because they are not like you? It is fair to assume that the purpose of a religion is the opposite of the above and its true purpose is to promote peace not war, love not hatred. However the current interpretation and application of a variety of religions is resulting in hatred, condemnation, slaughter and war The application and interpretation of religions has been attacked as promoting the opposite of its stated objectives. Religion has also been attacked from scientific and logic perspectives. Religions Inability to stand before and defend itself against science and simple logic are inter operated as a weakness within the religion as a concept regardless the massive destruction it causes. While the above may be true... Read More →


The Purpose of the religion

What is the purpose of a religion? Is it to encourage its followers to kill those who are not followers? Is it to make humankind intellectually blind? Is it to be used as a tool to judge others according to an individual's point of view and condemn them because they are not like you? It is fair to assume that the purpose of a religion is the opposite of the above and its true purpose is to promote peace not war, love not hatred. However the current interpretation and application of a variety of religions is resulting in hatred, condemnation, slaughter and war The application and interpretation of religions has been attacked as promoting the opposite of its stated objectives. Religion has also been attacked from scientific and logic perspectives. Religions Inability to stand before and defend itself against science and simple logic are inter operated as a weakness within the religion as a concept regardless the massive destruction it causes. While the above may be true of a variety... Read More →


Buddhism and the idea of a God

Essentially Buddhism does not believe in the idea of a god and there are several reasons for this. Buddha, like many psychologists and theologians saw that many religions and the belief in a god has its origins in human anxiety and fear. Primitive beings found themselves in a dangerous and hostile world with many natural phenomena such as volcanoes and thunder. Without the knowledge of how to explain these incidents, primitive beings created the idea of a god to provide them with some understanding and security. To this day we still find that people become more religious in times of crisis and stress. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears and accept the things we cannot change; he replaced fear with rational understanding not with irrational belief. The second reason that Buddha did not believe in a god is because ether does not seem to be much evidence to support the idea. There are many religions that claim to have the words of god preserved in their scripts. The... Read More →


Thai People

Thai people are often referred to be happy people. Hence Thailand called by the name of “land of smiles”. They always have a smile in their face, well almost. If you go to a shop or a restaurant you will see how welcoming they are. It is very rare to see an angry shop owner when you ask the prices of 1001 goods and then not buy a single thing. If they don’t have what you looking for they will tell you where you can find them. As soon as you go there they will greet you saying “kap koon kap” if it’s a man and kap koon ka if it’s a woman. They will join their hands together and keep it to their heart and bow to greet. Like we Sri Lankans say “Ayubowan” except the bow part. Read More →  Read More →