Religion, a word shrouded in mystery, confusion and complexity. For some, it's the answer to everything, a path to direction and hope. For others, it is the reason for all evil or simply a human-made phenomenon for those who refuse to understand that everything happens for a scientific reason. Regardless, this is a fairly controversial and much-debated topic among scientists, cultural theorists, and conspiracy theorists. Religion plays a major role in the functioning and shaping of the social and psychological behavior of a society. This is more related to the emotional side of a person and everyone has their own perspective on this. Religion has therefore become an important part of human identity. Perhaps the reason religion is attacked so much is because some religious people abuse religion and violate the rules and regulations of religion for personal gain. Some even impose religion on others so that when the other accepts their religion, they can be praised in society. Saadat Hasan Manto, Munshi Premchand and Rabindranath Tagore, with their short stories, provide insight into certain types of people and the psychological and social impact of religion on society. In A Man of God, Manto writes about how a person with a religious personality has authority over society. The story is about a Maulvi who visits the house of recently divorced Chaudhry Maujoo. He regrets having divorced his wife and is immediately ashamed of it. Looking at Maujoo’s condition, the maulvi is taking advantage of the situation for personal gains. Manto leads the way in a village where religion is generally misunderstood and few people have adequate knowledge of it. Likewise Maujoo is not a religious...... middle of paper ......e. “Then I’ll come down immediately, right here.” I can't take a mathor in the car – haridom, I might have understood, but a mathor! » Similar discrimination can also be seen in other religions. In Pakistani society, the greatest discrimination manifests itself in the treatment of religious minorities. In some homes, people tend not to eat food from a Christian or Hindu family and, in some extreme cases, not even from a Shia family. In conclusion, whether religion leads to conservatism and violence or whether people use religion for personal gain depends solely on how they are taught religion. There are very religious but very modern people, like Sheikh Hamza Yousuf, the Dalai Lama or Pope Francis. It all depends on human psychology and with proper knowledge of the subject, religion can surely exist with science and modernism..