Rationality?

Read a post titled “God vs God” at one of my friend’s blog. It was something about god being in a position of Dr Jackal and Mr. Hyde my 2 words about similar thing.

When we say the word "God", I guess we r expecting some image, or some thing, which is all-powerful, which doesn’t make mistakes and which may guide us when we are unable to take decisions. We give that image different names according to our beliefs and religions. So in that case, how much valid it becomes to say that it has its own weakness? Like in Mr. Hyde. I am thoroughly confused with these issues for last so many years, so am not making an assertion, but just putting my thoughts about it.

The subject line reminds me of the way people are using it now days. My god vs your god :) I don’t follow my religion the way I am supposed to, and I have no enough knowledge also, but I know that much that no religion will (or at least shouldn’t) say I am better than yours. For me, religion should be something that guides you to do right things and act well, than to follow something blindly which was written or told thousands of years ago. Now “right things” and “well” are so vague terms and people always try to manipulate them according to their convenience.

I believe that whatever was written, was written by humans and not by God. God may have suggested few things, but as humans wrote the text, it was according to the social conventions at that age. Are they still valid? Shall we still follow it just as it is written that way? I don’t think so. Take an example of the movie “Lagaan”. The British fellow (I forgot his name) asks the king (Kulbhooshan Kharbanda) to eat meat if he wants the British to cancel the tax. The King refuses to do so as it was against his religion. Lets put aside the fact that ultimately the tax gets canceled. If at that stage, the only option was to eat meat to cancel tax and probably save hundreds or people’s lives, will it be valid / ethical / logical thing to not to eat meat? What one should do if the choice he/she has is:
1: Go against the religion and probably save lives
2: Stick to the religion and ignore the fact that it might affect others.
I guess I don’t need to answer it. Also, enough of it at this moment. I have other things to do too. Maybe I’ll add few things later as they come in my mind.