Short Essay on Religion in Our Daily Life

Religion has been a part and parcel of human life since time immemorial. Religion represents a great system of human thought. Religion is the predominant influence over the conduct of our lives.

Religion attempts to search for a deeper meaning to life, to find facts about the universe, about the laws of nature; Religion has been in our flesh and blood since antiquity. Though science has flourished today, and science is directly opposed to religion, even so religion has not lost its significance, because science is beyond the comprehension of many, and religious trends are easy to convince, to be comprehended.

Humans are fundamentally religious even in the industrialized West, religion moulds human nature. Religion has been institution­alized. Constitutional zed and politicized today. It has been channeled into violent conflict, barbaric cruelty.

The bloodstained history of religious conflict provide us a clue detest the traditional religions that are morally bankrupt, corrupt. Religion has hindered the philosophy of universal fraternity. Religion has caused many classes, races, wars. One group of a religion opposes another. Therefore, there is Catholicism and Protestantism. Religion has lost its drive today. It kills the decent behavior of humans today.

Throughout history religion has been used as means to justify actions and to control people. The two earliest examples are Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. The time frames that will be discussed will be the reign of Cyrus, 521 to 486 BCE, and India from 1500 to 500 BCE, before the Persians had a direct effect on India. The Persian religion is thought to be Zoroastrianism or a derivative of it, called Achaemenian. (For this paper the Persian’s religion will be referred to as Zoroastrianism.) However, Cyrus did not strive to spread his religion he introduced his self into other religions as a divine figure. Hinduism is a religion whose origins are unknown but are speculated