What is the importance of religion? (part-3)

Extremist nationalism, like organized religion, is terrible. Even if we take the argument that most people no longer believe in conventional religions (20 to 30 percent of people in the world today do not believe in any other conventional religion), will the frenzy of violence from the world stop? As far as is known from history, the number of people who have lost their lives in this world due to strong nationalism and hegemony is not so much due to religious violence. Millions of people have been killed during the First and Second World Wars alone, fueled by fierce nationalism and hegemony. That is not to say that fewer people have died because of religious divisions. The people of the Indian subcontinent have been the victims of religious expansionism the most. During the partition of 1947 or the great liberation war of 1971, millions of people of this Bangladesh lost their lives due to religious division. That scar is still bearing the innumerable people of Bengal. There is no language to condemn or hate the way a fierce white nationalist recently killed innocent people praying in the Holy Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. The whole world is shocked by the horror of this murder. The world has been witnessing such senseless killings for ages. The reason behind this is mostly bigotry or extremist nationalism. Preliminary investigations have revealed that a white extremist from Australia carried out the atrocity in retaliation for a murder that took place in Europe five years ago. But those who were murdered in Christchurch, New Zealand, may not be aware of the incident in Europe. In this way, ordinary people may be killed by pressing Udor Pindi Budo on the neck. The world, too, witnessed in amazement the fierce fanaticism and frenzy of fierce nationalism. But these two kinds of extremism are nothing but a great curse for human civilization. Extremist nationalism unites one ethnic group under the pretext of annihilating others and dominating itself, making it extremist and insane. Strong fanaticism also incites a religious group to violence in various ways.

Peace and humanity have been spoken of in almost all conventional religions. However, he does not testify to the past history of any religion. Almost all the traditional religions have been propagated and spread with power and desire for revenge. However, in most cases, religion has been used to save the interests of groups or individuals.

That historic act of annihilating other believers by one believer is still going on. It may go on as long as it is not possible to free religion from sectarianism and bring it down to a level of personal belief or disbelief. So what is the way out of this frenzy of violence? Honestly, there is no easy way out of the current frenzy of violence and division. Yet we must rely on the good intellect of the people. The rule of law will be established in the future; As the practice of free-thinking and science-based knowledge grows; As much as human values ​​will be practiced, nurtured and nurtured in human beings; The less the influence of extremist bigotry and extremist nationalism among the people, the less it will be; The walls of mutual division will get weaker and weaker. Maybe one day the wall of division will rise. On that day, people will see people as human beings, not in the guise of any particular religion, tribe or caste. A few hundred years ago, Baru Chandidas, a medieval Bengali poet, said, "Man is above all truth, not above him." Sheikh Fazlul Karim, another Bengali poet, said in simple words just a hundred years ago, let the universal human values ​​wake up forever in space-time-space. Everyone is expecting people to grow up with bigotry and extremist nationalism, only to see people grow up.