Swami Vivekananda said: No book ever created a Soul. We must never forget that.+

Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial make no difference to them, because if people have believed a false thing over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it true.

People all over the world in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of the God injected by the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas. The religious beliefs were passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.

Religion causes one to become crippled, Self-mortifying and Self-deprecating is not a religion, but the social system of controlling the populace through psychological deformation and retardation.

Religions place God as diverse ideas and beliefs.  Every religious believer has a different idea of God. Every man has a different idea of the real. 

There is a need to accept and verify the facts about the religious Gods before accepting anything as God.  There is in religion the element of imagination and sentiments. The ordinary man is happy because religion gives him satisfaction, and pleases his taste.

Every sect and creed concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth. 

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion. Belief in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of his practical life within the practical world.

An honest e-seeker of truth says that he has not seen God. He does not know God's capacities, what God can do, and what God cannot do. Therefore any statement he might make about God would only be a lie.

The seeker of truth does not wish to tell a lie. Therefore, he does not accept  God nor deny Him; he simply refuses to make any statement about God because he wants to discover what is supposed to be God in truth. Without verification, he does not want to accept anything as truth. 

Spirituality is a new religion. Advaita is pure Spirituality. Advaita is truth beyond form, time, and space. Advaita is the Spirit.  The Spirit is the universal God and God of the whole humanity.

Do not believe as a God as a separate entity. Realize God is the cause of the existence of the universe in which we exist. God should not be worshipped but realized right in this very life, not in the next life or the next world.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said:~   THE MASSES IN INDIA CRY TO SIXTY MILLION GODS AND STILL DIE LIKE DOGS. WHERE ARE THESE GODS?

Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these gods? ... The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, birthless. Because you are the infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the entire world. Who can help you? - Swami Vivekananda  (Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900) The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II

Vivekananda said: ~Creeds and sects have their parts to play, but they are for children, they last but temporarily. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must never forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. We must never forget that. -Talk given at Unity Hall, Hartford (Connecticut), USA, on March 8, 1895, as reported in "Hartford Times" (March 11, 1895). Complete Works, 1.324 

Remember:~ 

Belief in religion, religious God, castes; and sects, have become a cause of concern for humanity. Religion divides humanity and breeds hatred, violence, wars, and terrorism.

Religions, castes, sects, dogmas, creeds, doctrines, and rituals are all hindrances in the path of Truth. The truth is all-pervading and infinite.

Religions are not based on truth and it renders no help to find the truth, which is hidden by the illusion of form, time, and space. Truth belongs does not belong to any religion.

Churches, temples, and mosques have nothing to do with the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space because they are based on blind faith or blind belief. To attain the ultimate Truth, the seeker has to get rid of all obstacles with a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’.

We do not need temples, churches, and mosques but we need more schools to educate the populace on the truth about God and the falsity of the religion.

Religion belongs to the ignorant populace. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion. 

People must get prepared to accept the truth, which was hidden by the religion they belong to. The falsity of the religion has to be exposed so that people will be able to realize the Truth of true existence.

There is no religion as a higher goal other than Self-realization. Self-realization itself is God-realization.

Gurus and yogis provide only a superficial understanding of Advaita; it is dry knowledge. One must realize God by realizing the world in which he exists is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is God.

The shortest, quickest way to the realization of Truth is through to realize the world in which we exist is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman God in truth. :~ Santthosh Kumaar