Religions are primarily based on the belief in the Creator. Proving or disproving the existence of such a creator empirically is not plausible as one who has created everything should be literally beyond everything as well. When someone decides to believe, does so because he or she feels about the idea as plausible. Those that feel about the same implausible, decline to believe. In both, rationality is ultimately led by feelings. A feeling is always a very personal choice, both in religious and non-religious instances. Those that believe and follow practically, claim to find their transcendental journey in it. Again, such an experience is too subjective to be judged by others in the outside world. However, it’s also understandable that not every believer has the same experience; even, some may even not have any! Often, religion is a way for them to avoid the negatives in their unconscious. In a nutshell, they primarily perceive religion through the ritualistic behaviors in the system and not through the core belief itself. As a result, “ritualism” plays the role of powerhouse for them in place of “the feelings of core faith and understanding”. Think about those that are ritualistically very active in religion but lie on daily basis; anyone enlightened with the belief in an active universal Creator would never lie like that. However, it is still happening as ritualism the primary center of their religiousness and not the belief in them.

According to Wikipedia, religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. This is predominantly from the viewpoint of an observer of religion who does not necessarily follow or believe in it. However, according to intrinsic views of religions, individual religiousness proceeds through thoughtfulness, query, knowledge, and wisdom leading to the choice to believe and obey an ultimate authority. Most of the key persons to major religions were neither believer nor disbeliever in their early life. They felt the need to understand and eventually ended up believing after they received support through information. Again, this information is always known as from beyond, that is, from the Creator himself – therefore not based on empirical proof or disproof.  Ultimately, it was their thoughtfulness and knowledge that guided them in their choice. Therefore, the followers of a religion can be of two distinctive types. One group starts with curious constructive thinking, ends up believing, and thereby follow the guidelines from religion in personal life; the other group starts in ritualistic behavior according to the religious guidelines because of the decision to believe and then tries to take their understanding towards maturity as they go. The second group can be easily biased by several distractions including their wants. As a result, some of them reach their mature realization and understanding in course of time, others may not reach there ever or even lose their minds and souls in limited ritualism because of their desire, thereby, defensive acts of their minds. These lost souls can be the key to extremism and fanaticism in the name of religion in our society.

A simple example can exemplify and add to the views described above. Think about a person who is alive and conscious enough to believe but unable to follow any ritualistic pattern of activity due to physical limitations. From the viewpoint of intrinsic religious philosophy, that person can be 100% religious as religiousness starts with curious thoughts leading to belief and activity within the limit of his capability; however, those that prefer to identify religiousness, primarily, as having a specific ritualistic pattern of practical life due to personal choice to believe, might hesitate to agree to that.

Now, let us focus on the philosophical aspect that might help create a blurry vision of issues like religion in world society. It is important for both – those who are trying to live with the philosophy and those who are trying to do without it or even opposing it. Any such confusion in either or both the groups can create disharmony in society leading to terrorism or mismanagement of it. When some religious institution or personality starts making some mistake (like, misusing religion, crossing the normal limit, ignoring humanity, or disrespecting subjective needs or decisions) the society tends to limit them inside a definite realm for them to keep functioning but only for the sake of religious ritualism and nothing else. What actually would help in such a situation is the fellow followers of the same philosophy to try to understand the situation in depth and stop anything unwanted from occurring. Though the ultimate religious belief comes from a person’s intrinsic feelings, the processes leading to or involved with it are always rational – at least, that is a fact from the viewpoint of core religious philosophy. However, when a religious group is nothing but blind followers, they do not speak up when someone in the religious community is wrong about understanding the rationality stemmed from the religion itself. As a result, very understandably, isolation of the religious institution or figure under that misleading authority becomes the only way for society to keep the problem at bay. Nevertheless, this process gives birth to the idea that it is normal to have something unacceptable/ irrational in a certain area of life but not in other areas, though it is the same life of the same person or group of persons. It cannot be right. Something that is truly unacceptable is usually unacceptable everywhere in the same time-space. Inequity in such reasoning can encourage the survival of misunderstanding or misuse of religion in society. This stability has to be accomplished by the people attached to a specific philosophy, not by those from outside it. The idea that “as a religious philosophy comes from the Creator himself therefore no scope for adjustment” can be an obstacle in this process. However, as it is also correct as per religions that one who Creates and nurtures all does not need or depend on anything, it is His creation for whom the religion is produced and needed. Therefore, any “religion from the Creator” shall always naturally have respect for the true needs of its users. The Creator is the key understanding of religions. Someone identifying the Creator in a “not so helpful” way can always end up interpreting the religion the same way. Therefore, when it comes to extremism, fanaticism, and terrorism in the name of religion or something similar, we need to educate people further about the central idea so that the problematic part stops permanently until another situation rises. Having faith and being optimistic is vital, just like in any other instance. If we prefer to only isolate a misled figure or group in society, that may only increase the chance of creating something much bigger and more dangerous in course of time.