Covid-19 Dissects Religious Gene; Exposes Myth: For How Long Can We Hurt Nature?

COVID-19 made people run behind medical authorities for help, to scientists and research men for a new molecule to cure the affected, state machinery for help find food and essentials, they respect and praise them, worship them, and they have no time to think of their favourite demons, deities, monsters with multiple limbs and heads.

- Kks Perera

Are we genetically programmed to be religious? Lord of the gods – Sakkra along with his battalion of Almighties, Brahmas, and the rest of subordinates numbering 330 million deities [number ref Buddhist scripts-thistun kotiyak], have been confined to self-quarantine by the genes of COVID-19. All their abodes, invariably packed with devotees are locked-down indefinitely. Religious narratives speak to human desires that science can’t satisfy. Why there are Gods in every religion? The controversial question often asked if there are gods in Buddhism too.

The short answer is, there are no almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent gods in Buddha Dhamma, but plenty in “Buddhism”, burrowed from other religious beliefs, mainly of Hindu origins. The mysterious existence of heavenly and demonic beings however, we cannot find appropriate answers without first finding a definition for Gods. What do you mean by “gods or deities?” But it’s surely the case that there are all kinds of divine beings called devas populating the early scriptures of ‘Buddhism’. Tantric Vajrayana Buddhism still makes use in its obscure practices. Religious dignitaries of all faiths, including the catholic Archbishop, His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith have appealed to their followers to volunteer in serving the fellow citizens at this crucial juncture.