Atheism

Some people I met while my stay in france were just too amazing to be followed. This guy was from Russia but he didn't want to go back as its too cold during that season. I wanted to go there because I never experienced subzero to such extent. For me, its a new experience. For him, it was harsh reality, the routine. I personally was quite interested in knowing many things about russia as it has been great soviet union, USSR before fall of berlin wall. The incident that resulted in many unforeseen results like expanse of globalisation, free trade, more market and what not. Americans and western europeans were very happy about the event. They quoted USSR as 'russia ruling other soviets as colonies'. For them, it was shear freedom. They promoted non-red activists in all the soviets, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Czech and many more. But after all, fall of USSR was detrimental for Russia. Its power got diminshed. Rouble could no more remain stable currency.

Those were two schools of thoughts. Neither was true. I wanted to hear something from the common russian, who doesn't care much about politics but his daily affairs. I asked him about how does fall of USSR affect life of common russian. He looked puzzled and gave the expression of indifference. He was not much interested in politics but as a foreigner was asking his opinion on his own country he made the prima facie expression of an aware citizen and replied,' yes certainly it was bad for Russia.' By the terse response and puzzled expression, I reckoned its not worthwhile to pursue that topic any further. I changed the topic and asked that I heard that about half the population of russia is atheist. For this he snickered as if I have been duped by misleading channels. He replied effortlessly that,' For getting jobs in Russia, people out there register themselves as atheist even though they visit church every sunday'. I exclaimed with a big-O.

Communists are officially atheists. But what use is the Marxism or Confucianism, if they couldn't change the minds of hoi polloi. These philosophies have been misused by power hungry people like Stalin, Lenin and Mao to subjugate it from Monarch on some or the other humanitarian grounds. Ideally, Marxism should have been economic system but not the political weapon to seize power. It is neither a spiritual framework. It should have no business per se to infiltrate in person's personal sphere of following any sect, creed or cult. Marxism used equality as a weapon to cut-size the unequal sections of the society. It proved to be a brutal method of implementing humanitarianism for common public. But they could result in rule by public. They resulted in consistent power among few, chosen ones. It was as if one monarch was replaced by many. People lost their voice, their freedom.

Now look at the ultra-liberal countires like Norway, Sweden and Denmark. People out of their own will move toward atheism. There is no positive re-enforcement nor any negative one. But consensus reveal the trend. Voter cards have the column for no-religion. And here in india, our constitution doesn't promote any religion in particular. But it does promote following some or the other religion. There is no column for no-religion. I don't know if its good or bad but it's just not complete.