Though you may know what faith and fact exactly mean, yet for few friends who are new to these terms, for my satisfaction and conformation, let me brief it.
Faith is a term that sometimes, it really mystifies me, as I really do
not know how deeply intertwined with once psychology. As in my opinion it
becomes the ground to our morals and ethics to be built upon which we call it
as core personality, plus logic and reasoning are the two other factors
somehow, that cements, this Faith in us, while we are growing, at a very early
age. However, most of the part remains hazy but we tend to digest it either
unconsciously or by saying that the concept of GOD, or His Philosophy is beyond
the reach of mind and speech and then the contemplation begins.
Fact, firstly I would like to thank all those great people who made it
possible for us, the coming generations, where one can freely speak about it,
without any threat to lives. Ok so now, if you pick any dictionary and try to find
the meaning of the word “Fact”, you would find more or less similar or exactly
same one. “A truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true:” and if you are still confused
try to find another word called “Science”. More or less, you would get the same
meaning: “A branch of knowledge or study dealing with abody of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.”
For
example:
Earth
is spherical in shape but not a flat surface, Heliocentric but not geocentric.
So
now, we have a common ground where we know what is Fact and Faith means, as far
as our subject matter is related.
Let us scrutinize the thin line between these two.
One being systematically arranged truths, actual experience or
observation, and the other, which has to be believed irrespective of the truth
or as such, if we talk about the existence of ‘God’ for example, because in no
way it can be proved, and there are mysteries that are unsolved at the both
ends or Questions that cannot be answered easily, upon that mistakes or
atrocities that have had been committed upon each other at times are
unforgivable.
There is an old saying in the “mythical witchcraft”, that ‘nothing is
free as you shall give back something dear in order to get something that you
desire (sacrifice) from nature or from some higher power’. Does it ring any
bells in your ears, if not let me clear, probably it might. We dig earth to get
iron, steel, and other materials to prepare cement, to build our houses. Digging
for oil to fuel our broomsticks., Thus making our planet more warmer and
punching holes into ozone layer by releasing carbon dioxide.
We never thought of the ill consequences of our inventions. We cannot
cross the boundaries of nature, we cannot device instruments beyond the order
of nature but we can become an instrument if we have to.
Now if we blindly believe in something without any proper insight into..,
is obviously harmful. We cannot expect a viral fever to be warded off just by a
wash of holy water and prayers.
Massacre of people in the name of witchcraft, sorcery and becoming the right
hand of Satan “a camouflage of God”. Waging wars, just to show the superiority of
one ideology over the other, in the name of “Holy God” is actually Satan camouflaged
himself as higher authority, follower of the right path of spirituality.
Having abundant faith upon God will never change the order of nature. Lightning
bolt striking upon you but you believes that nothing can happen to you because
of your faith is foolishness it will fry you instantly.
The knowledge that we have been inheriting, is diluted
with ignorance and segregated with unmindful dogmas and misbelieves.
As these separations got deeper and wider, our perception
got narrowed and shallow. As a result, we have grown apart from each
other and thrown ourselves in to this dilemma, whether to follow the
path of faith or to get along with the path of laws and formulas where there
was a time, they were tagged as Hershey, Witchcraft, and later, today it
is known as science.
Once upon a time, this was the dilemma of few then it
became conflict, later split in to communities and now it
is a battle in every individual. The long unforgettable
& unforgivable battle between fact and faith in our human minds is
still elusive and hazy. Though, we were determined and drawn lines in all
possible dimensions to comfort
ourselves, and we presume that the battle is over, or
at the most never thought it to be one. Not realizing that
it continuous and spreading under the thick blanket of our
ignorance. It never struck to our
impeccable human minds that those two paths are interrelated.
Both leads to the same Goal, but with a clause and that
is, not individually, but both together and those few who preferred
both together never been able to congregate them on a common platform.
But, then, who tried they got slaughtered by the dogmas, politics, wars, and
what not, for the few mean powerful people’s want, for
their benefits of misbelieves and unmindful dogmas.
As if a cycle, where once, Blind folded Faith dominated the world
and its order, now the opposite, Facts rule the fate of that Faith.
