The Car or the Driver

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

It has been said that sometimes the rules and obligations within organised religion can in fact turn someone away from God.  But without organised religion, there will only be organised materialism.  That is the inadequacy of the people, never the philosophy.  Many people own cars.  Some fancy, some not.  Some drive every day and some drive less often.  It does not mean that they are automatically better drivers with more expensive cars.  Or, that those who drive often have better records or vice versa.  When there are accidents, we blame the driver.  We seldom blame the car unless the car is obviously defective for such a car would cease to be produced.  We are those drivers and religions are cars.  Some religions are not appropriate.  Those defective cars are eventually part of failed production lines.  What are left are the ones we see now: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and so forth.  All are more than a thousand years.  There has not been a distinct major, new faith after Islam.  Religions such as Sikhism and Baha’ism are reactions of Islam and do not have hundreds of millions of followers.  That these major faiths have been around for so long means that there has to be something in them, some truth.  So, people on the highway of life are arguing about who has the better car when they should be more concerned about who is the better driver.