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Informative Article | Religion | India | Volume 14 Issue 4, April 2025 | Popularity: 5 / 10
Religion, Science and Society - Their Views on Energy Development
T. Harinarayana
Abstract: Religion and Science have been serving the society in many ways in the past. Preaching on good behaviour, good way of living, good manners etc., use to be the main motivation by all the major religions ? Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. Science and technology have done a tremendous service to the society through new innovations that has helped the whole mankind of this world for better living. Unfortunately, in recent years, the religion has taken a different route and concentrated more on commercial aspects and became intolerance to other religions. The so-called heads of these religions have started mis - interpreting the ancient books of these three religions in their own way and misguiding the people. These religion heads are suffering from ego - istic and personality problems and using the weakness of the human beings and their beliefs to their convenience. In fact, they started exploiting the weakness and beliefs of the whole mankind for their own long term benefits to them. All these religions have many commonalities. All the three ancient books never preached hatred of others. Thus, these major religions are doing more bad to the society than good. The time has come now for a change. Although, it is difficult to change the mindset of the present day generation, surely, our younger generation ? the future of this planet Earth ? can change the scenario. They are more intelligent, less corrupt and quick in understanding and realization of the facts. It is likely that younger generation depend more on the science and technology and less on the religious beliefs, superstitions etc. It is likely that the younger generation after 2000 years (around 4014) or so, consider all the present-day churches, mosques and temples as ancient architectural monuments or museums and it will become tourist spots. On energy aspect, from the ancient literature of the three religions, it is stressed on protecting the environment while drawing energy from the Earth resources. It is also said to draw energy from five elements of the matter ?Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Sky. In this article, brief details of the past events, the history of three religions, the commonalities and differences between them are presented and the service rendered by the science and technology to the society is stressed. Through this article it is appealed to all the mankind, especially to the younger generation of the people to concentrate more on the development of the society with friendly environment among all the people with all the benefits of the science of technology for better living. The mankind need to concentrate more on science, technology, arts, music, literature, morals, behaviour etc. and less on religious beliefs (Gods).
Keywords: Religion, Science, Society, younger generation, technology
Edition: Volume 14 Issue 4, April 2025
Pages: 202 - 209
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.21275/SR25331124915
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