We all know the word ”god” and we know how dedicated we are toward our belief or faith system. In spite of all logic and reasoning which we apply in day-to-day life, we are totally deprived of it when it comes to understanding God. The word “God” has spread widely and has resulted in many problems on this planet, so I coined the term ‘God Virus”.
The Life Cycle of a God Virus
1.The God Virus attaches to a host (common people like us) cell. This is called the process of adsorption (Dissolves the surface of our cells).
2.The God Virus injects its DNA or RNA into the host cell (common people like us) called an entry.
3.The invading DNA or RNA takes over the cell and recruits the host’s enzymes.
4.The cellular enzymes start making new God Virus particles (replication).
5.The particles of the God Virus created by the cell come together to form new God Viruses. This is called an assembly.
6.The newly formed God Viruses kill the natural cells so that they may break free and search for a new host cell. This is called release.
7.This God Virus spreads very systematically via carriers called priests, mullahs, pundits, Acharyas etc.
8.The God Virus creates anti-bodies which fight against any exterior thought, logic and reasoning as a defense.
9.God Virus creates an escape route in the human brain that as soon as any thought becomes too strong to invade the defense mechanism, it creates a flight or fight response, thus overtaking other organism or running the host from its place and thus protecting its survival.
10.People with lower intelligence illiterates, poverty-stricken, sick, and aggressive, or those who are afraid of nature are a major target of this virus. Thus 90% of earth's population is in danger or has already been impacted by this God Virus.
11.After a struggle, if it leaves the host body, it immediately looks for a new host.
The above is a very short explanation of the virus attack cycle. One virus has been creating havoc on this planet for the last 2500 year. It is called God Virus. The current chapter helps us in understanding this virus, and Chapter 2 of this book is the anti-virus for this virus. This virus works exceptionally well via tools called religions which people practice. I request all my brothers and sisters not to take this book as criticism; this is an endeavor as a student to find answers to some unknown mysteries by using simple logic and reasoning. I am talking about religions and not about dharma. It is important to understand the difference between two.
Religion can be started from a book or a man, or can be a cult which people follow with no logic and reasoning. Anything followed without logic and reasoning is called faith or belief and once it surpasses logic and reasoning, it is no more a faith or belief but is transformed into Truth. Religion, faith and belief are something which cannot stand the test of natural laws, They get torn apart when logically discussed. Dharma is a set of laws which teach us how to live with nature, with all species in such a way that all can live happily.
In this chapter, we will explore how religions impact us and our world. Have you ever pondered what makes religion so powerful? What makes people kill thousands of people, rape women, and kill innocent children, consider one part of the world as Kaffir or Pagan, teaching enmity against them? What can make people circumcise themselves or take a dip in water to change their mind? What can be behind mass killing of Hindus by Mughal rulers or why is a cry made in every war for someone whom no one has seen? Why were holy wars or holy crusades required in Europe and Middle East few centuries back? Why were so many Jews killed?
What makes people blind to logic and reasoning? What is it that makes people irrational? Why do people get upset when you talk about religion, and why do they spend so much time in front of dead idols? If these questions have ever struck your brain, then enjoy this book. For the last 3500 years, a few religions have penetrated deep into the society and have been working hard to wipe out one another by converting as many people as possible. There has been a long history of mass killings. Those who attempted to question were either persecuted or punished hard. The best examples are Galileo Galilee and Copernicus, punished by the Church because they challenged Christianity.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect intended for us to forgo their use. [Galileo Galilee (1564-1642)]
This is what he said and he was right, though persecuted. God has given us intellect and reason and there is the purpose behind this. The purpose is that he wants us to understand him and recognize him, otherwise we would all have been animals. Some religions are against logic and reasoning and if you argue, then the most dangerous virus, called the God Virus, overtakes the cells of the host and sends a shock wave throughout their body which makes them kill people or fight. The current world is proof of this fundamentalist approach. In every corner of the world, we can see people of specific belief blaming others for their viral infections. They are spreading across the world, but still keep harping about the rights of their own faith, always blaming others for their economic or social deprivation. If they are oppressed by others, their population and expansion should have stopped. In reality, the trend is reversed.
In modern days, we have an army of Priests, Mullahs, Acharyas and Pundits who spread the belief that disease and your problems are due to Satan and evil spirits. If you spill water, perform Havan or donate to a particular house of worship, or recite some stanzas, verses and mantras, everything will be cured. The only requirement is that on the back of everything, keep the God Virus in your brain and the rest will happen automatically. These preachers or carriers of the God Virus have not seen God themselves, but still they impart the virus into common people. This virus works best under circumstances of fear and this book will teach you how to come out of fear and become a perfect anti-virus of the God Virus.
It is astonishing to see the way this God Virus is creating religious zombies. Because of the world becoming fanatics, I was instructed by God in my soul to write this book for all of us. Soon we will find that the God who instructed me is different from the one prevalent in modern society.
The violence and intolerance expressed by fundamentalists and cults throughout the world bring an urgency of understanding religion and its power. Some of the most dangerous people are preaching hatred and intolerance against most peaceful people on earth and that is done by injecting the God Virus from early childhood. this virus is strengthened by continual recitation and reading of scriptures without allowing children to question and challenge these scriptures, thus making the virus so strong that it overtakes acumen. By the time the children grow up, such an injection takes them to a level much lower than animals where they kill each other by detonating themselves. Even animals will not kill themselves unless they go crazy or mad. Imagine the kind of virus this is…
Read this from one of the great preachers:
“We-with God’s help-call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslims ulema, leaders, youths and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan (U.S troops) and the devil’s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.” [Osama Bin Laden]
We can see how God has been called to ignite hate, intolerance and a call for revenge is made by invoking the God Virus. This virus might be dormant inside people, but with such provocative thoughts it gets invoked at a tremendous pace.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is. Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code” [Mark Twain].
Humans are religious animals; humans are the only living species that has true religion, several of them. Is he not the only species that loves his neighbors as himself and cuts their