Belief Divides People

J.Krishnamurti

Through lack of intelligence we accept the idea of a super-intelligence which we call “God” ; but this ‘God’, this super intelligence, is not going to give us a better life. Why? Because belief divides people: there is the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Christian, the Moslem, the communist, the socialist, the capitalist and so on… Belief, idea, divides; it never brings people together. You all believe in differents ways, but your belief has no reality whatsoever. Reality is what you are, what you do, what you think, and your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, and cruel life. ‘God’ is the unknown, and your believe or non-belief in the unknown is merely a self projection and therefore not real.

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