The question asked in a report by the BBC was: why do thousands of Muslims visit Mecca every year?

And my answer to the above question is based on critical thinking. Some religious people will probably label it as misguided and lack comprehension of the nature of god, however I stand by these words. Without fear or favour. I would like to point our that I'm not a religious person but I do believe in some of the messages being taught in all the major and minor religions of the world.

Without going any further my answer to their above question is, they were groomed up to believe what they believe, god is not s person he/she cannot occupy one portion of the globe an neglect others. The parents had influence the n their children and the society too. They where made to believe that there is a god that commands worship from them. of course this is an incorrect assumption if we are to think critically about this matter.

god can not be a human being with human attributes, that is to say I do not expect god to have feelings such a jealousy, envy, desire for power. we tend to look at god in anthropomorphic terms and this is incorrect. those are han attributes that shows our weakness as human beings. so in that case this was a way for the prophet, Muhammad to consolidate his power as a religious figure. to do this he had to centralise Islam around one place, his place of birth in Mecca.

According to Donald Goldman, the bible is not a book for children. Why is that so? This is because children are at either the concrete stage of cognitive development. One can not expect a child to read the bible in an abstract way. They are at that point in their lives where they take everything literally or give it nonsystematic interpretation. However, I believe this scholar also failed to mention that people of certain IQ score shouldn't be allowed either. How do you rationalize killing thousands of people all in the new of religion but this is what terrorists groups justify terror activities, they take Qur'an interpretation literally like children in their pre-operational phase of moral development. Further, how just is the issue of enriching pastors by poor congregants. This issue is so prevalent these days.

Religion just like any other substructure of the society is no t a perfect system. One needs to pick what is important while discarding what is dangerous to han existence.