Religious Rebirth of an Individual

An individual is born in a certain religion and he gets his cultural and religious training at the very nascent age. Till the time he gets to an age when he can reason out things, he is already subconsciously following certain habits which is a part of the religion.

In simple terms Religion is the way of life, so the individual has a certain way of life by then.

After that comes the rigorous exclusion and inclusion principles in religion. The laws and codes of daily life has to be abided or else you are out of the religion. 

Example: If you don't have a beard, you are not one of us.

Now if we take into account these nitty-gritties, we will find a very less number of claimants who can actually claim to be doing the things, and of them rarely few will say with confidence that they have not missed anything. So, shall we call them all that they are out of religion ?

An anecdote goes that when it was to be decided that who will be the one to lay the foundation stone of a Masjid in times of Aurangzeb, the emperor asked a question, as to who among us have not missed a single morning must come forward, and none came but the emperor himself to lay the foundation stone.

So, the religion and faith should be a question of individual belief. The moral sanctions, and Kangaroo Court decisions about individuals should be discouraged.

The individual must try to read the scripture of the religion in which he has been born and brought up. He should try to get a rebirth in the religion which he has been professing, or he may choose to follow some other faith or no faith at all.

The rationalist thought process development in the individuals is the basic necessity in the current education system (be it religious or secular education system).

I want to put down an excerpt from the lecture of K N Panikker on "Rationalism and the Critique of Religion" to ponder:-

"One of the charges against Henry Vivian Derozio, the young and popular lecturer of Hindu College and the main inspiration behind the Young Bengal, for his dismissal from Hindu College was that he had propagated atheistic ideas through his classroom lectures. In defence, Derozio denied that he ever preached atheism but had only told the students the doubts the philosophers had about the existence of God."