An Empty Something

All right, I was reading Half-Blood Prince the other day(dumbledore :( ) A particular scene suddenly became very poignant and meaningful to me. its the quidditch scene, when Ron, who is having a bad case of nerves, just before a must-win match. so Harry pretends to put Felix, the luck potion in Ron's pumpkin juice. Ron believes that he is lucky and, needless to say, goes on to perform very well.

At the end of it all, it boiled down to faith. Ron only performed excellently  when he believed that he would. Man becomes a superman, only when he believes he is a superman. Our own Indian freedom struggles is a testament to the fact. i believe that its a natural order as well. the effects of adrenaline for an example. 

Maybe faith is like this adrenaline, like the pretended bottle of luck. It gives man  the courage to  do stuff, which is otherwise considered impossible. Eons ago, man looked at himself with the faith to  do  things. However, in recent times, man  became tired of the responsibility. Deeds that were actually due to their strength of will and character were otherwise attributed to God.

God became that liquid luck. Nothing was difficult to God.  He gave the courage to do things. Consequently, the Indian revolution,  the discovery of the periodic table , and other truly  historic deeds were carried out in  the name of God.

God may not exist, like the empty vial. However, when we believe in him,  we receive the much-needed courage to do our duty. Maybe that's the purpose of a God...

(I started thinking of this after I read Angels and Demons the other day.)

    and so...

No religion, no sacred text, comes even close to  describing something as God. Maybe that's  because God, does not exist. Maybe because  he is just an empty bottle.