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What if your religion is a hoax?

What if one day you find out that the miraculous virgin Mary wasn’t really visited by angel Gabriel? What if Mary was a hermaphrodite (having both sexual organs of the two genders), who impossibly happened to be fertile, and impregnated herself? Then, voila! You have the Son of God who turned water into wine, who died most un-majestically in a cross, and who happens be the road to salvation.

What if our Nirvana man, Buddha didn’t really see the four signs that he sought for but instead feasted on the finest wines and most delicious meat, as any prince would do, sealed a multi-million dollar deal with a public relations agency to spread his greatness and along the way transformed those gullible followers into believers and formed a new religion just for the fun of it?

Well, those stories didn’t really happen that way. I’m no theology expert nor do intend to shame other people’s religions, but all I’m saying is that what if those stories didn’t really happen after all, or didn’t really exactly happen the way we know they happened to be or didn't exactly happen as some people told us they happened to be?

Why rest facts to these people, who are highly able to err, specialized in making mistakes, as you and I would? Another thing is, bias may very likely be present when a person of certain nationality wrote it. Of course, in Spanish history, an Spanish historian would speak of the greatest feats, valiant crusades and noblest tales that they have done. But what about its dark, unflattering parts that shall be left forgotten until someone of truth corrects it? Shall we erase, say for example, the abuses the Spaniards did to our women, family, and country? 

Splash a little creativity written in prose or round up some nice sounding words in a verse, almost everything can be confabulated by the most creative of writers. It somehow scares me, the thought of resting all the knowledge in our history class to these people, presenting to the children these things as facts, only to find out then that it’s all false after deep, extensive researches and fact findings say otherwise. 

Let this be a call to be critical in the information that we find over the new media. 

In doing so, we must learn listen to other viewpoints, evaluate the facts and information received – differentiating a fact from fiction, and apply if you are convinced of it’s veracity.