God the Endorser

I hate Coke and Pepsi and Mirinda and a lot of other products because of one reason. They taste crappy! I don’t think there is one person who drinks it without wondering why he is drinking it! Or maybe our brains have become so numb that they atop triggering distress signals when you drink them! They are probably in strike.’ This guy does not listen to our warnings so why warn at all?’ So why do i hate them? I thought we cleared that up! They are crappy! Give me a reason why we should drink it? They are carbonated drinks and are not good for us and the calories are not going to flatter our waist nor is it going to help us in our Mission 6 pack. And why are we even discussing this? Good you are paying attention! If there is nothing good about them how come celebrities are lining up to endorse for them? How come people who go to the movies buy it even though water is available that too for a cheaper rate? It is a vicious circle! Celebrities endorse it! We try it! We use it! We hate it! We see another celebrity endorsing it! We hope something will be different! We try it! We use it! In short celebrities endorse a product which they probably avoid for more reason than one while we are throwing our money in the hope to look cool, happening and elite!

I dare you to watch an advertisement for a soft drink next time! Each one of them definitely has the celebrity gulping down the drink with a pet bottle in slow motion! Next time pay close attention! The law of conservation of mass says that if the drink is being emptied into the throat of the celebrity then the bottle should be getting emptied even if it is for a very small amount! But you won’t see that happening! Because they are not drinking it! They are getting paid to not drink it while we pay money to drink the same stuff! See the irony?

So again where exactly am I going with this? I am coming to that. The role that celebrities play in our life is also aped by a very important entity which everybody revere! Ya you guessed it!

God!

What? How exactly?

This is how I see it! Today religion is a product which is being sold to us!

If your son is on the wrong path we seek god! If your father is sick you seek god! If you have not done your exams well you seek god! We try to pay him off with money, special dharshans and special offerings! Gold, silver and what not! Little do we realize all this money was created by us for transactions and barters! God does not need it! What is he going to buy if at all he does take it? Once inside the holy place we keep our rationalities outside! We do not think where our offerings go. We do not care.

Where can we find the most number of sinners in any given day? The pub? Jail you say? I don’t think any of it correct! I would say tirupathi! Because that is where paying off of God, who is the ultimate judge of us all, is the maximum! Lord Venkatesh is the highest paid official in religious India! And what is he if not an endorser for the farce that is religion and the most successful business enterprise in modern times! Evangelists, Godmen, Ashrams, and Holy abode wherever religion has spread material corruption and flawed humanity is also prevalent!

And like that is not enough TTDC holds special functions outside Thirumala wherever they wish and the Hundi spreads its branches everywhere! More money and more money and that alone can wash your sins off and that alone can get you a shortcut to view the Lord because that’s what equality is!

If I am to go by the stories my granny told me God is supposed to be a nice person! He does not rob you! In fact if you are good to people he gives you nice things! So by that reckoning Lord Venkatesh is not God! I don’t think whatever we perceive as God today would not be! If God is really the person he is made out to be he would have packed his stuff and left temples, churches and other such place centuries back ! So God in today’s world is just a marketing ploy like those celebrities who sell cola!

In fact I am not so sure about the ‘he’ part! Maybe we should say IT. So It probably is everywhere or maybe It has left Earth! Maybe it does not like to be referred to as God anymore! So its not such a bad thing to be an atheist or to be agnostic! And that makes me feel better knowing that I am not causing anybody any trouble and not paying off anybody to hide my sins!

I am krawida and I am not religious!