Why did I Pay When It Was Free? Are we in a (religious) super market?

Shopping gradually becomes a data driven decision making. Companies analyse our interests, expectations, preferences etc. 

Does religion become such marketisation? 

How do the Malls attract people so do the Hero prophetism..

Window-shopping, cafeteria, flash-mobs, make a try ...

Are there parallels?

Mind it, there is no exchange offer nor replacement in religious market. While the time one realises the product is not worth, the vendors will have disappeared. 

Though the longing could take different faces, the worth thing that one looks for in a human journey is a life with God. Before someone could analyse our data, let us try to understand it fully, or get help of someone who could genuinely help us to do it. Remember at the sales counter they told us that we must buy 'it' and we bought what they said to be the best. Instead we are left with bags of sparkling wrappers. Did that make our journey well? 

If we have not made our choices well, and chose to believe what fascinated us, we are carrying broken pots. Shocking it is that we take pride in these pots we carry. Sometime we decorate it, some time we dance around it, and sometime we worship it. 

Instead of doing a data analysis and making 'itself' applicable, if religions could understand the human situation in cultural and social changes, we could see the signs where god was part of the journey.

But, how could we believe when they said we must 'spend' for it? The thing that we really needed would be 'given' to us if we knew who we were! 

Imagine the payment methods we tried ........

Owner was very happy, big crowd in the shop and lot of money

the manager has applied some crowd pulling strategies...

Owner was shocked another day, the shop is empty

people found that they were given cheap products, they just neglected the shop.

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Perhaps we have believed hero prophets without any reflection. 

Did they connect us with God, or ordered do's and don'ts that favours the god imageries they presented?

Did we search for what was worth, or stopped our search when we were given 'wonderful' offers?

If we realise we made wrong choice, why don't we dare to make the real choice, breaking our bonds with powerful pillars of the Malls, because it is not about finance, it is the worth of our life.

If these things were not appealing, let us just think that the above things are about others, not the prophets whom we might like. But let us also reflect, what is the usual emphasis our preferred prophet make?

A Malayalam version വിശ്വാസിയോ ആത്മീയ ഉപഭോക്താവോ?