Source: ET
Next year will mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, when one man’s protest changed Christianity in Europe. I was reminded of that by two stories published recently in India on the same day. On May 25, in Andhra Pradesh, it was reported that theincome of temples has grown by 27 per cent. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu attributed this rise to “growing sins”. He said, “People are committing sins and to get rid of them they are going to temples and offering money.” That same day, another story, from Udaipur, was published with the headline, “A holy dip and Rs11 is all it takes to be certified free of sins”. The report said that priests at a Shiva temple in Rajasthan were offering a certificate for being ‘paap-mukt’, or sin-free, to those who paid Rs11. Of this money, a part would also ensure the ‘dosh-nivaran’, meaning the removal of future obstacles.
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It reminds me Indian film Oh my God (OMG) wherein psychology of human being explained in following words. As long human beings live in fear state of God the financial contributions to get sins pardoned will continue. The day human beings start loving their Creator this will finish.
Achievement of love of Creator easy to say but very difficult to achieve. So the transnational nature of religion will continue