Controversial issue of textbooks-4

3. Do we have the same faith all the time?

Everything in the world is subject to change. So is one's faith. In different phase of life people have different ideas, so their faith is also subject to change. For example most people at the younger age are just believers, but won't do religious exercises or research in religion genuinely at that time. When time pass away and brings experience, then they start to look deeply into religions. Religion in childhood for most people is just for a name sake. They are busy with their careers and other activates and just do rituals and ceremonies for name sake or because they are afraid of punishment or for achieving their desires. I have seen lot of people who turned deeply into religious plane after retirement or unfortunate events, or illness, etc. So we have to admit our faiths are subject to change at different phases in life.

I have seen atheists who transcend to be devotees in the later years and also viceversa. When a devotee is surrounded by many problems from every corner, he ask, is there God? If there is god, then why he gave me so many problems to face? I don't have the intention to say that the devotee has changed to atheist. Only a marginal few will change from devotee to atheist. During that phase, majority of devotees still remain in the religion and their doubts also remains. Some intelligent devotees will find the answer. He gains the insight that- life is like that, God will always test them, so the good and bad luck is God's test, therefore we should remain patient in both. Those devotees who don't find answer, still carry his religious practice without knowing this truth and will wonder again and again why God gave me bad luck?

If the faith can be changed as per times rolls, then why should we make chaos for a religious issue in a text book? When the kid grows up he will acquire the knowledge enough to overcome the ignorance which he got while he was a kid from the textbook. As we said before, most people think seriously about religions at the old age. And they also earn more insight into religion by their own search about religions, not from books they learnt in the past. It is the experience along with the learning capacity which makes one to be pious and religious.

To be Continued...............