God and religion are two separate identities.

If we look at the genesis of religion, there was no God; instead, humans introduced Him or Her much later.

In principle and virtually, religion is a code of conduct for a civil society. It all started from here.

As society progressed, the code of conduct also evolved, resulting in its expansion, formalization, and application.

When civilization started taking root, the management of society began.

A significant part of human evolution reveals and explains the origin of religion. Ancient religious orders were a set of regulations and principles for an emerging civil society’s acceptable and restrained behaviour.

Later, all aspects of human cultures, including presumptions, myths, and overwhelming elements of nature, were covered in one order.

Social unity and coherence were advancing society’s natural needs and dependencies in all these developments.

An organized collection of beliefs, behaviours, and sets of ideas started pouring into this social construction.

At this stage, the assemblage was sanctified by adding man’s most intuitive conception or imagination when the Supreme Being was introduced or realized.

How and why was the idea of God conceived, or did He descend into man’s mind by Himself?

History does not reveal it.

Philosophers, thinkers, and even scientists cannot provide logical answers, and no studies have examined the conception of God.

But all the world’s faiths tie up firmly with God under different names, which are called religions.

From its genesis, if religion is a code of conduct for society, then does it need the concept of God in its functioning.

Of course, atheists would say no.

However, for the rest, who perceive God through their faiths, the God-religion relationship needs to be reviewed in the contemporary environment of reasoning and questioning.

-Promod Puri