Open Religion

Whenever I hear the word “Open” that makes me take a pause. Since, I started as my career as a Java developer I’m happen to listen this word very often but some or other way and most of the time it was “open source”. As a part Java community I’m a fan of open source, open development ideas, open frameworks, best practices and so on. Open source is continuous disciplined process of design, development, upgrades, ideas and frameworks. Doing it collaboratively to make life easier of the developers and reduce cost of product or increase the profit of the organization. And world has become so interdependent collaboration is the way it has to be done, where you can have thousands of idea flowing into the single thing. World best mind working together to make something that they are not paid for. I was always inspired by the fact that how open source phenomenon is working today. Probably, it’s one of the most important invention of our generation where ideas can flow freely, regardless of the place, gender, status, and where your profile doesn’t matter. How successful that communication is though it’s not a one organization. Corporate spends lot of money on the managing the people and training them. Can we say here that people can manage themselves when they are motivated by the common purpose.

I thought how interesting it would be if this paradigm could be applied to the religions. That might sound a wild idea initially but as you go through the post it might makes sense to you. I’m interested in different cultures, naturally religion is one of favorites subjects of my research. What makes me more curious is that how group of people believe in the same discipline and follow it for centuries. There has to be some magic behind it, although when group of people come together magic is something that is supposed to happen. If our ancestor would have had internet all regions would have lot more mature than it is today. They would have created religious scripts in a way where it makes sense to all. And that would have contributed to common thought process. Books and scripts can speak about history, heroic stories, rules and limits. But it would be interesting to see new age technology helping religions to adopt their new Avatars. Nothing has changed the world so radically in the human history like internet which brings people together under the protocol of collaboration. These, new age religion would be very dynamic. They will be composed of changing thoughts, in synchronization with socio-culture, socio-economic approaches and practices.

What world need today is love, common sense, awareness, education, transparent communication and openness. We need to move in the direction of what makes sense.

Didn't the idea of Open Religion really pissed you off?