Indonesia Banget # 22: A Country With 4 Religions

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WARNING: DO NOT argue about which religion is better and DO NOT mock other religion. This post is merely talking about religions in Indonesia and the relationship amongst the believers. For me, all religions are good, the bad ones are the people who  misused their religion.
I WILL DELETE ANY COMMENT THAT DOESN’T SHOW RESPECT TOWARD OTHER PEOPLE’S RELIGION OR BELIEF.

These sentences made me want to share about religion in my country.

” it’s (Indonesia) a Muslim majority country , so many people covers their face with clothes (he’s talking about women with hijab during the concert ) it was the sight I had never seen before . I’ve seen many kind of people but this is the first time I realize that our music has across religious boundaries”
~Hyde (Vocalist of L’Arc~en~Ciel)

Source: Noi-Himura. Translated from What’s In (a Japanese Magazine)

Hyde was surprised to see so many women in Hijab came to see the concert. It is true that Indonesian is a country which population is mostly consist of Muslim, however we are not Islamic Country. The government has acclaimed 4 major religions in Indonesia. They are Islam, Christian (both Catholic and Protestant), Buddha, and Hindu.

I Believe in You

I believe in You is Stipers’ song, some said that the song is about their belief to God…and that’s why I changed the title of this Article from Does God Really Exist? Into I Believe in You (reason can be found here)

These past few months I’ve been visiting Muselive.com; as we all know…well maybe not everyone knows this…Matt, Dom and Chris are atheist and somehow it triggers a question amongst fans ‘Do we believe in God’s existence?’ Hot arguments in form of long posts have been going on in threads such as Christian Musers, Atheist Musers and sometimes in Muslim Musers.

Those who believe there is no such thing as God are so persistent in asking “if there is God, where is the proof??” they keep on saying that God and religion was made by human in order to control human it self…it was the earliest manifestation of human’s law. Human sometimes are afraid of something they can not see instead of things they can see. By making such nonsense like God and It’s punishment, human will behave and do good things or even bad things in the name of their God. Atheist believe its stupid to believe in something we can not see nor touch, the fact that God can not be proven by any kind of science lead to high doubt about God’s existence. All things in this world or even universe were happening by itself and humans control their own life, there is no such thing as destiny which controlled by God. We are on our own!! And if we die…we simply just die…no life after dead, no judgment day and certainly no God waiting for us up above or down below.

Frankly…I have nothing to oppose their belief (they think atheist is not a belief…coz they obviously don’t believe in God…but I still consider Atheist is a belief…it’s a belief there is no God). I found their arguments quite interesting, I learn so much from Atheist Musers. In some points it is true that we can not prove God’s existence by nowadays science…and yet science can not prove there is No God either!!! Both ways are something humans can not prove!!

Atheists don’t believe in God! Christians believe in Trinity! Buddhists believe in their philosophy! And Muslims believe in One God Allah! All those beliefs (I’m not going to say religion because Atheist is included) are something we believe by heart. None of us…not even me as Muslim…can actually prove the rightness of our beliefs, none of us has been dead and then come back to live to tell everyone that they are right or wrong!! What we have now is HEART, big heart to believe in our belief.

I have not even smallest doubt about Allah being my creator and the One I love most above everything else in this earth. I’m not the most devoted Muslim in this world, coz I do not listen to nothing but Islamic song nor doing all Islamic chores up to the smallest one. I do not remember all Ayats from Holy Koran nor attends all Islamic lectures. I am nothing but an ordinary Muslim. I believe there is One God, Allah and nothing but Allah. If there is no God, then who created us? Who created the world? Who created the universe? Nothing in this world happen in a snap of fingers…everything either created by human or already exists in nature. If we made everything that we wear, read, ride, eat or else…so it’s a simple notion that there must be something creating this world! Our brain controls our body to move, humans control their cars or other machines to move, and God controls this Universe to move. There is always something above something else.

 If God can not be proven simply by saying no one has ever seen God…then has anyone ever seen oxygen?? We believe there is oxygen, we believe that we breathe oxygen every second of our life… but can you see it?? Yet you believe it so much!! If it’s because we can not touch it…can you touch Oxygen?? How do you believe its oxygen that we breathe when we can not even touch it??

Everything that can not be seen nor touched is not always considered as not exist!!!

No matter what they believe or what I believe, none can prove it till the end of time…so let’s live in peace without bothering other people’s belief. Stop pointing our finger to someone else and telling their belief is ridiculous and we have the right one!!! If we want to spread our belief, use the peace way…telling all good things about our belief and never once mention bad things about other’s belief. There is one ayat (I forgot which one coz I’m not so good in memorizing something) saying “do not mock other’s God for you will hate it when they mock your God“

 This is just a piece of my mind.