Growing up in a dominant traditionalist family, I was raised to be a morally good Hindu man, similar to the rest of my family. However, Whilst cogitating about my relatively short 17-year life, I’ve realized how many issues I have had with the societal norm of being a devout follower. Albeit, I do not consider myself to be Agnostic or Atheistic, I do not believe myself to be as pious as the average follower. My main issue with my religion and all religions, as a matter of fact, is not the concept of religion itself, as I do believe there is a God. Instead, I have qualms about the lifestyle of being more concerned with prayers than that of one’s fellow man. It is this issue that sparked my eventual departure from being unduly religious. This was not always the case, however, as when I was younger and blind to the ways of mankind, I was fixated on the religious prayers, mantras, and stories spoken and practiced by my family and those who also …show more content…
Being my naive self, when my family told me we would see the birthplace of our religion, I thought I would see the preeminent Gods my grandmother had told me about. Distant family members had driven us to monolithic religious structures and buildings still in use after being crafted by other religious followers centuries ago. Instead of gawking at the architectural feats of Instead all I had observed were the crowds of malnourished and injured children of my age begging those around them for food, a majority of whom didn’t even bother glancing down at the poor children. I pondered on why those children were hungry and more importantly why no one was helping them. I asked my uncle why those kids were hungry, and my uncle, getting on one knee to look me in the eye replied, “it's because they have no money, and people won’t give them any because they would rather give it to the