Coffee Vs Religion

Choosing between tea or coffee is like adopting traditional or scientific beliefs; I choose coffee. My zeal toward science is like mitochondria in the cell. It is not easy to bring a change in the world unless one takes the initiative to challenge conservative ideas. The sluggishness of denouncing a belief is stated in a statement by E.O. Wilson, “Changes will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.” My journey of being astute began when my grandmother took me to a saint. My grandmother held orthodox beliefs as whatever will happen in the world is because the saint wanted it to. My grandmother will look at a blank page with the hope of a miracle to occur if a saint says so. I look at things …show more content…
I was lost in the crowd trying to figure out the significance of that place; I realized that it is a camp of the saint. Throngs of people came there to see a saint as if he was a celebrity. I was too young to understand the mythology of the saint, but I realized that there is something cynical about that saint. Devotees gathered in a room like leaves in a storm. A person with brown piercing eyes amidst an unshaven beard in baggy clothes entered the room and started enchanting holy words, captivating the attention of the crowd - he was the saint. People bowed before him. It was a little uncomfortable for me as I have always been taught to bow only before God, and not someone who claims himself as God. His followers were ready to do whatever he says with the exception of me. There was a battle between me and the conservative beliefs of the followers like the endless battle between thermodynamics and gravity. I believe that ignorance can lead to the end of absoluteness which will put us in the world of darkness. A single spark of light can be enough to cease that ignorance and I became that spark of light to eradicate darkness generated by the lack of