AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT ABOUT JUDAISM, ZIONISM AND FREEMASONRY
AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT ABOUT JUDAISM, ZIONISM AND FREEMASONRY
This website considers the actions and plans for the future of certain Jews under the influence of some superstitious traditions or of radical, atheist Zionist ideology. People affected by these superstitious views from time to time also infiltrate the Israeli deep state and are even sometimes able to assume a defining role in Israel’s domestic and foreign policy. However, it will be useful to clarify certain issues in order to avoid various misunderstandings because of the information in this site.
The first matter needing to be clarified is that the information in this site does not involve all Jews. The great majority of Jews are unaware of the activities in question, what takes place behind them and their true objectives, and the great majority frequently state that they are opposed to such measures. Therefore, it is not Jewish society as a whole that is criticized in the relevant sections of this website.
The subject of criticism is superstitious traditions that seek to supposedly legitimize violence and ruthlessness by misinterpreting the Bible and a radical world view that regards other people as second class and considers it perfectly normal to inflict oppression and injustice on them on the basis of those traditions. In other words, it is radical, atheist Zionism, a social Darwinist and occupying ideology. Zionism emerged in the 19th century as an ideology that espoused a homeland for the Jews who were then without one. As time passed, however, Zionism underwent a process of degeneration, as happens with many ideologies, and that legitimate demand turned into a radical and irreligious conception that resorted to violence and terror in practice and formed alliances with extremist forces.
There are two varieties of Zionism today. The first of these is the Zionist conception of the devout Jewish people, who wish to live in peace and security in Israel alongside Muslims, seeking peace and wishing to worship in the lands of their forefathers and engage in business. Muslims are not opposed to Zionism in that sense. For devout Jews to live in peace and security in the lands holy to them, to remember Allah and worship in their synagogues, to occupy themselves with science and business, in short, to live and settle freely in those lands, is not something to alarm any Muslim. Indeed, it is a good thing that Muslims would rejoice at. Throughout the course of history it has always been Muslims who have enabled the Jews to survive the hardships and sufferings they have experienced, and who have sheltered and protected them.
The Zionist belief held by a devout Jew and, as described above, based on the Torah does not conflict with Islam. It is revealed in the Qur’an that Allah has settled the Children of Israel in that region:
Remember when Moses said to his people, “My people! Remember Allah’s blessing to you when He appointed prophets among you and appointed kings for you, and gave you what He had not given to anyone else in all the worlds! My people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has ordained for you. Do not turn back in your tracks and so become transformed into losers.” (Surat al-Ma’ida: 20-21)
Jews therefore have the right to live freely in these lands, but that right also applies to Muslims, and of course Christians, who have also lived in them for hundreds of years and believe in the sacred character of the region. These blessed lands are sufficiently broad, lovely and fertile for all faiths and communities to live together in peace. The right to life of one does not disqualify others from enjoying the same right.
To summarize, it is the “irreligious, Godless Zionism” that we condemn and regard as a threat to all mankind. These atheist Zionists, who do not defend the existence and oneness of Allah, but, on the contrary, encourage a Darwinist, materialist perspective and thus engage in irreligious propaganda, are also a threat to devout Jews and devout Christians. Atheistic Zionism is today engaged in a struggle against peace, security and moral virtue, and constantly produces strife and confusion and the shedding of blood. Muslims and devout Jews and Christians must join forces to oppose this Godless Zionism and encourage belief in Allah.
Relations between sincere and devout Jews and Muslims must exist within a framework of affection, respect and compassion. That is because this is the moral values and behavior that Allah reveals to Muslims in the Noble Qur’an and that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) shows us through his own life.
The People of the Book in the Qur’an
In the Qur'an, Allah presents Jews and Christians as the People of the Book, as well as explaining to Muslims in detail how their attitude towards them should be. The People of the Book are aware of the lawful and the forbidden, and base their moral practices on Divine inspiration from Allah. According to the morality preached in the Qur'an, and the practices of our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), it is required that Muslims treat believing Jews and Christians with love, care, compassion, and respect. The call of Muslims to Jews and Christians is revealed thus in the Qur'an:
"We believe in what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you. Our God and your God are One and we submit to Him." (Surat al-‘Ankabut: 46)
This call makes it very clear what Muslims' point of view towards the People of the Book is: We live according to the moral principles professed in our holy books by respecting the limits set by Allah, by loving and respecting the messengers sent by our Lord, and by having faith in one Allah. Which is why we are beholden to treat each other with care, understanding, respect, and love.
We All Love and Respect the Same Prophets
Muslims have faith in all of the prophets which have been sent. They believe in the books sent to prophets in the past. This is explained in one verse of the Qur'an as follows:
Say, "We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and what Moses and Jesus and all the prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him." (Surah Al ‘Imran: 84)
The Prophets Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Aaron, David, Solomon, John, Jesus, and Moses (peace be upon them all) are as important to Muslims as they are to Jews and Christians.
The respect of Jews for the Prophet Moses (pbuh), who is also a Prophet of ours, and their close bonds with him over thousands of years are very important to sincere Muslims. The great love of Christians for the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and their heartfelt attachment to him is of similar importance to Muslims. Of course those who feel love and respect for the Prophets Jacob, Isaac, Ishmael, Abraham, Lot, Ayyub, Moses, Jesus and John (peace be upon them all) are people for whom naturally Muslims will feel love and affection, and approach with understanding and compassion. Anything opposing this is not possible.
Allah reveals the moral values of those of the People of the Book who genuinely believe as follows in the Qur’an:
They are not all the same. There is a community among the People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah’s signs throughout the night, and they prostrate. They believe in Allah and the Last Day, enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the righteous. (Surah Al ‘Imran: 113-114)
The duty of devout Muslims is to embrace people who live by such moral virtues with affection and compassion, and to show them love and understanding. To reiterate, therefore, the Muslim attitude toward the Jews is based on the moral values revealed in the Qur’an and implemented by our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). The revelation of the errors of irreligious, Godless Zionism or various superstitious traditions incompatible with the morality of true faith and the criticism of mistaken practices do not alter that fact.
Not All Masons Should Be Held Responsible for Atheistic Masonic Activities
In the same way that is a violation of good conscience to hold the entire Jewish people responsible for the actions of a few atheist Zionists, so the blame for the actions of atheist freemasons cannot be laid at the door of all masons. There are people within freemasonry who believe in the One Allah, who oppose the oppression implemented by and known to stem from senior masons in certain lodges, and who seek peace and good among all people. These people are trying to turn freemasonry from being an organization that stirs up disorder and acts against religious moral values to being one that strives to spread moral virtue. This work is exceedingly important and essential. And this situation should not be ignored as the negative activities of freemasonry are identified and criticized.
As one reads the other pages of the website, it must not be forgotten that it is atheist freemasonry that is being criticized. All these criticisms are aimed at the atheist aspect of freemasonry, ideas opposed to religious moral values and the oppression that this aspect causes. And the aim behind this criticism, as well as to enable people to see where the danger really comes from, is to spur freemasons, who are unaware of this aspect or who wish to change it, into intellectual action. A readjustment from within freemasonry and a movement for change along the lines of religious moral values will be highly effective and beneficial. Atheist freemasonry has been carrying out sinister activities all over the world for hundreds of years and has striven to bring about the global dominion of irreligion. However, the century we are living in is one when the corruption in question from atheist freemasonry over the centuries will finally come to an end and be vanquished. In this century, when Allah illuminates the world with His light, and by His leave, and with help from devout masons who believe in Him, freemasonry will turn into an organization that seeks to serve the spread of religious moral values.
PART II
POLITICS IDEOLOGIES AND SOCIETY
THE FALL OF ATHEISM AND THE
RISE
OF FAITH
Almost
everyone who has studied human history, particularly its
philosophical
and social aspects, will agree that the nineteenth century was
an important
period, for it was during those years that the first steps
were taken
toward the future spiritual collapse. Its most important
characteristic
was the growth of atheism (i.e., rejecting God's Existence) as
opposed
to theistic beliefs and religion, which had been generally
dominant
in the world until then.
Although atheism has existed from ancient times, the rise of
this
idea actually began in eighteenth-century Europe, with the
spread
and political effect of the philosophy of some
anti-religious thinkers.
Materialists such as Denis Diderot (1713-84) and Baron
d'Holbach (1723-89)
proposed that the universe was a conglomeration of matter
that had
existed forever and that only matter existed. In the
nineteenth century,
atheism spread even further afield. Such thinkers as Ludwig
Feuerbach
(1804-72), Karl Marx (1818-83), Friedrich Engels (1820-95),
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1884-1900), Emile Durkheim (1859-1917), and
Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939) applied atheist thinking to different fields of
science
and philosophy.
The greatest support for atheism came from Charles Darwin
(1809-82),
who rejected the idea of creation and proposed the theory of
evolution,
which gave a supposedly scientific answer to the question
that had
baffled atheists for centuries: How did human beings and
living things
come to be?
This theory convinced a great many people that there was a
mechanism
in nature that animated lifeless matter and produced
millions of different
living species from it.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, atheists
formulated a worldview
that "explained" everything: The universe had not been
created,
for it had no beginning and had existed forever. They
claimed that
it had no purpose, that its order and balance were the
result of chance,
and that Darwin's theory of evolution explained how human
beings and
other living things came into being. They believed that Marx
and Durkheim
had explained history and sociology, and that Freud had
explained
psychology on the basis of atheist assumptions. However,
twentieth-century
scientific, political, and social developments disproved
these views,
for ongoing discoveries in astronomy, biology, psychology,
and social
sciences nullified the bases of atheist suppositions.
In his book God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith
and Reason
in a Postsecular World, American scholar Patrick Glynn of
the George
Washington University writes:
The past two decades of research have overturned nearly all the important assumptions and predictions of an earlier generation of modern secular and atheist thinkers relating to the issue of God. Modern thinkers assumed that science would reveal the universe to be ever more random and mechanical; instead it has discovered unexpected new layers of intricate order that bespeak an almost unimaginably vast master design.1
In short, atheism suffered a sudden collapse in the last quarter of the twentieth century at the hands of the very scientific and sociological concepts from which its adherents had hoped to receive the most support. In this article, we will look at its collapse in the areas of cosmology, biology, psychology, medicine, and sociology.
Cosmology: The
Collapse of The
Concept of An Eternal Universe and The Discovery of Creation
The
first blow to atheism from twentieth-century science was in
the field
of cosmology. The idea that the universe had existed forever
was discounted,
for scientists discovered that it had a beginning. In other
words, they
proved scientifically that the universe had been created from
nothing.
This idea of an eternal universe came to the Western world,
along with
materialist philosophy, from classical Greek civilization. It
stated
that only matter exists, and that the universe comes from
eternity and
goes to eternity. In the Middle Ages, when the Catholic church
dominated
Western thought, materialism was forgotten. However, in the
modern period
Western scientists and philosophers became consumed with
curiosity about
these classical Greek origins and revived an interest in
materialism.
With the coming of the nineteenth century, it became widely
accepted
that the universe had no beginning and that there had been no
moment
of creation. Adopted passionately by such dialectical
materialists as
Marx and Engels, this idea found its way into the twentieth
century.
This idea has always been compatible with atheism, for
accepting that
the universe had a beginning would mean that God had created
it. Thus
the only way to counter this idea was to claim that the
universe was
eternal, even though science did not support such a claim.
Georges Politzer
(1903-42), a dogged proponent of this claim, became widely
known as
a supporter of materialism and Marxism in the first half of
the twentieth
century through his book Principes Fondamentaux de Philosophie
(The
Fundamental Principles of Philosophy).
By supporting the idea of an eternal universe, Politzer
thought that
science was on his side. However, very soon thereafter, the
fact that
he had alluded to by saying "if it is so, we must accept the
existence
of a Creator," that is, that the universe had a beginning, was
proven. This proof came as a result of the "Big Bang" theory,
perhaps the most important concept of twentieth-century
astronomy.
The Big Bang theory was formulated after a series of
discoveries. In
1929, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) noticed
that
the galaxies were continually moving away from each other and
that the
universe was expanding. If the flow of time in an expanding
universe
were reversed, the whole universe must have come from a single
point.
While assessing the validity of Hubble's discovery,
astronomers were
faced with the fact that this single point was a
"metaphysical"
state of reality in which there was an infinite gravitational
attraction
with no mass. Matter and time came into being through the
explosion
of this mass-less point. In other words, the universe was
created from
nothing.
In
their observations made in the 1960s, Arno Penzias and Robert
Wilson
detected radioactive remains of the explosion (cosmic
background radiation).
These observations were verified in the 1990s by the COBE
(Cosmic Background
Explorer) satellite.
Confronted with all of these facts, atheists have been
squeezed into
a corner.
An example of the atheists' reaction to the
Big Bang
theory is seen in a 1989 article by John Maddox, editor of
Nature, one
of the best-known materialist-scientific journals. In his
article, entitled
"Down with the Big Bang," Maddox wrote that the Big Bang is
"philosophically unacceptable," because "creationists
and those of similar persuasions … have ample justification in
the doctrine of the Big Bang." He also predicted that it "is
unlikely to survive the decade ahead."2
However, despite Maddox' hopes, the Big Bang theory continues
to gain
credence, and new discoveries continue to prove that the
universe was
created.
Thus, modern astronomy proves and states that time and matter
were brought
into being by an eternally powerful Creator, Who is
independent of both
of them. The eternal power that created the universe in which
we live
is God, the possessor of infinite might, knowledge, and
wisdom.
Physics And
Astronomy: The
Collapse of The Idea of A Random Universe and The Discovery
of The
Anthropic Principle
A second atheist dogma rendered invalid by twentieth-century
discoveries
in astronomy is the idea of a random universe. The view that
all matter
in the universe, the heavenly bodies, and the laws that
determine
the relationships among them is no more than the purposeless
result
of chance has been undermined dramatically.
For the first time since the 1970s, scientists have begun to
recognize
that the universe's physical balance is adjusted delicately
in favor
of human life. Advances in research have enabled scientists
to discover
that the universe's physical, chemical, and biological laws,
as well
as such basic forces as gravity and electro-magnetism and
even the
very structures of atoms and elements, are all ordered
exactly as
they have to be for human life. Western scientists have
called this
extraordinary design the "anthropic principle": Every aspect
of the universe is designed with a view to human life.
We may summarize its basic characteristics as follows:
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The speed of the universe's first expansion (the force of the Big Bang explosion) was exactly the velocity that it had to be. According to scientists' calculations, if the expansion rate had differed from its actual value by more than one part in a billion billion, the universe either would have recollapsed before reaching its present size or splattered in every direction in a manner that it could never be reunited. In other words, even at the first moment of its existence there was a fine calculation of the accuracy of a billion billionth.
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The universe's four physical forces (i.e., gravitational force, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, and electromagnetic force) are all at the necessary levels for an ordered universe to emerge and for life to exist. Even the tiniest variations in these forces (e.g., one in 1039 or one in 1028; that is-crudely calculated-one in a billion billion billion billion), the universe either would be composed only of radiation or of hydrogen.
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Many other delicate adjustments make Earth ideal for human life: the size of the Sun, its distance from Earth, water's unique physical and chemical properties, the wavelength of the sun's rays, the way that Earth's atmosphere contains the gases necessary for respiration, and Earth's magnetic field being ideally suited to human life. (For more information on this topic, see Harun Yahya's The Creation of the Universe, Al-Attique Publishers, 2001)
This delicate balance is among the most striking discoveries of modern astrophysics. Paul Davies, the well-known astronomer, writes in the last paragraph of his The Cosmic Blueprint:
The impression of Design is overwhelming.3
In short, the idea of a random universe, perhaps atheism's most basic pillar, has been proved invalid. Scientists now openly speak of materialism's collapse.4 God reveals the falsity of this idea in the Qur'an: "We did not create heaven and Earth and everything between them to no purpose. That is the opinion of those who disbelieve…" (Qur'an, 38: 27), and science confirmed that truth in the 1970s.
Quantum Physics and
The Discovery
of Divine Wisdom
One area of science that shatters the materialist myth and
gives positive
evidence for theism is quantum physics.
Quantum physics deals with matter's tiniest particles, also
called
the "sub-atomic realm." In school, everyone learns that
matter is composed of atoms. Atoms are made up of a nucleus
and several
electrons spinning around it. One strange fact is that all
of these
particles take up only some 0.0001 percent of the atoms. In
other
words, an atom is something that is 99.9999 percent "empty."
Even more interestingly, further examination shows that the
nuclei
and electrons are made up of much smaller particles called
"quarks,"
which are not even particles in the physical sense; rather,
they are
simply energy. This discovery broke the classical
distinction between
matter and energy. It now appears that only energy exists in
the material
universe, and that matter is just "frozen energy."
There is a still more intriguing fact: Quarks, those packets
of energy,
act in such a way that they may be described as "conscious."
Physicist Freeman Dyson, when accepting the Templeton Prize
for Progress
in Religion (2000), stated that:
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.5
In other words, there is information
behind matter,
information that precedes the material realm.
John Archibald Wheeler, professor of physics
at Princeton
University and recipient of the Einstein Award (2003),
explained the
same fact when he said that the "bit" (the binary digit)
of information gives rise to the "it," the substance of
matter.6
According to Schroeder,
this has a "profound meaning":
The matter/energy relationships, the quantum wave functions, have profound meaning. Science may be approaching the realization that the entire universe is an expression of information, wisdom, an idea, just as atoms are tangible expressions of something as ethereal as energy.7
This wisdom is such an omniscient thing that it covers the whole universe:
A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of science, those that search the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved us to the brink of a startling realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then condensed into the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human, appears to represent a level of information, of wisdom.8
This means that the
material universe
is not a purposeless and chaotic heap of atoms, as the
atheist/materialist
dogma assumes, but instead is a manifestation of a wisdom
that existed
before the universe and that has absolute sovereignty over
everything
that exists. In Schroeder's words, it is "as if a
metaphysical
substrate was impressed upon the physical."9
This discovery shatters the whole materialist myth and
reveals that
the visible material universe is just a shadow of a
transcendent Absolute
Being.
Quantum is really the point at which science and theology
meet. The
fact that the whole universe is pervaded by a wisdom was
revealed
in the Qur'an fourteen centuries ago. One verse reads:
Your god is God alone, there is no god but Him. He encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Qur'an, 20:98)
The Natural Sciences:
The Collapse
of Darwinism And The Victory of "Intelligent Design"
As stated earlier, one of the main supports for atheism's
rise to
its zenith in the nineteenth century was Darwin's theory of
evolution.
By asserting that the origin of human beings and all other
living
things lay in unconscious natural mechanisms, Darwinism gave
atheists
the scientific guise they had been seeking for centuries.
That time's
most passionate atheists adopted his theory, and such
atheist thinkers
as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels made its elucidation the
basis of
their philosophy. The relationship between Darwinism and
atheism born
at that point in time has continued until our own time.
But, at the same time, this core belief of atheism is the very
one that
has received the greatest blow from twentieth-century science.
Discoveries
in paleontology, biochemistry, anatomy, genetics, and other
scientific
fields have shattered the theory of evolution (See Harun
Yahya's Darwinism Refuted). We have dealt with this
fact
in far more detail elsewhere. However, in short, we can say
the following:
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Paleontology: Darwin's theory rests on the assumptions that all species come from a single common ancestor and that they diverged from one another over a long period of time by means of small gradual changes. Supposedly, the required proofs would be discovered in the fossil record or the petrified remains of living things. But fossil research conducted during the twentieth century presents a totally different picture, for no fossil of a single undoubted intermediate species, one that would substantiate this theory of gradual evolution among species, has been found. Moreover, every taxon (an animal or plant group having natural relations) appears suddenly in the fossil record, and no trace has ever been found of any previous ancestors. The phenomenon known as the Cambrian Explosion, which scientists classify as a period of time that occurred 540 to 490 million years ago, is especially interesting. In that early geological period, nearly all of the animal kingdom's phyla (major groups with significantly different body structures) appeared suddenly. The sudden emergence of many different categories of living things with totally different body structures and extremely complex organs and systems (e.g., mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and, as recently discovered, even vertebrates) rendered the theory of evolution invalid and proved creation, for as evolutionists also agree, a taxon's sudden emergence implies purposeful design, and this means creation.
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Biological Observations: Darwin elaborated on his theory by relying upon examples of how animal breeders produced different dog or horse varieties. He extrapolated the limited changes he observed to the whole natural world, and proposed that every living thing could have come from a common ancestor. But Darwin made this claim in the nineteenth century, when the level of scientific sophistication was low. In the twentieth century, things changed greatly. Decades of observation and experimentation on various animal species have shown that variation in living things has never gone beyond a certain genetic boundary. Darwin's assertions, like: "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale"10 actually demonstrates his great ignorance. On the other hand, observations and experiments show that mutations defined by Neo-Darwinism as an evolutionary mechanism add no new genetic information to living creatures.
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The Origin of Life: Darwin spoke about a common ancestor, but never mentioned how this person came to be. His only conjecture was that the first cell could have formed as a result of random chemical reactions "in some small warm little pond."11 But those evolutionary biochemists who sought to close this hole in Darwinism were frustrated by the fact that all of their observations and experiments showed that no living cell could arise within inanimate matter by means of random chemical reactions. Even the English atheist astronomer Fred Hoyle expressed that such a scenario "is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein."12
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Intelligent Design: Scientists who study cells and their molecules, along with the cells' remarkable organization within the body, and the bodily organs' delicate order and plan are faced with proof that evolutionists strongly wish to reject: The world of living things is permeated by designs too complex to be found in any technological equipment. Intricate examples of design, including our eyes that are far superior to any camera, the wings of birds that have inspired flight technology, the complexly integrated system of the cells of living things, and the remarkable information stored in DNA have vitiated the theory of evolution, which regards living things as the product of blind chance.
By the end of the twentieth century, all of these facts had squeezed Darwinism into a corner. Today, in the United States and other Western countries, the theory of intelligent design is gaining ever-increasing acceptance among scientists. Those who defend it say that Darwinism has been a great error in the history of science, and that it came to be so by imposing materialist philosophy on the scientific paradigm. Scientific discoveries show that there is a design in living things, which proves creation. In short, science proves once more that God created all living things.
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| The most important branch of science for shedding light on the origin of life on earth is paleontology, the study of fossils. Fossil beds, studied with great intensity for the last two hundred years, reveal a picture totally at odds with Darwin's theory. Species did not emerge through small cumulative changes, they appeared quite suddenly, and fully-formed. |
Psychology: The Collapse of
Freudianism and
The Acceptance of Faith
The
representative of nineteenth-century atheism in psychology was
the Austrian
psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud's greatest
assault was
against religion. In his The Future of an Illusion, originally
published
in 1927, Freud proposed that religious faith was a kind of
mental illness
(neurosis) that would disappear completely as humanity
progressed. Due
to the primitive scientific conditions of the time, his theory
was proposed
without either the requisite research and investigation or any
scholarly
literature or possibility of comparison. Therefore, its claims
were
extremely deficient.
After Freud, psychology developed on an
atheist foundation.
Moreover, the founders of other schools of psychology were
passionate
atheists. A 1972 poll among the members of the American
Psychological
Association revealed that only 1.1 percent of psychologists in
the country
had any religious beliefs.13
But most psychologists who fell into this great deception were
undone
by their own psychological investigations. The basic
suppositions of
Freudianism were shown to have almost no scientific support.
Moreover,
religion was shown not to be a mental illness, as Freud and
some other
psychological theorists declared, but rather a basic element
of mental
health.
As Glynn says, "modern
psychology
at the close of the twentieth century seems to be
reacquainting itself
with religion,"14 and
"a
purely secular view of human mental life has been shown to
fail not
just at the theoretical, but also at the practical, level."15
In other words, psychology also has routed atheism.
Medicine: The Discovery of How "Hearts
Find Peace"
Another branch of science affected by the
collapse
of atheist suppositions was medicine.
In comprehensive research on the
relationship between
religious belief and physical health, Dr. Herbert Benson of
the Harvard
Medical School came up with some interesting results.
Although he
has no religious faith, Benson concluded that faith in God
and worship
had a far more positive effect on human health than could be
observed
in anything else. Benson concludes that he has "found that
faith
quiets the mind like no other form of belief."16
Why is there such a special relation among
faith,
the human spirit, and the body? Benson, a secular
researcher, stated
that the human mind and body are "wired for God."17
This fact, which the medical world is slowly beginning to
notice,
is a secret revealed in the Qur'an:
Only in the remembrance of God can the heart find peace. (Qur'an, 13:28)
The reason why those who believe in God, pray to Him and trust in Him are physically and mentally healthier than others is that they behave in harmony with their nature. Philosophical systems opposed to human nature always bring pain, sorrow, anxiety, and depression in their wake.The basic source of religious people's peace is that they act in order to gain God's approval. In other words, this peace is the natural result of listening to the voice of one's conscience. People who live the morality of religion simply "to be more at peace" or "to be healthier" cannot live according to the morality of religion; those who act with this intention cannot find peace in its true sense. God well knows what people store in their hearts and what they reveal. Peace of mind comes only by being sincere and attempting to gain God's approval. God commands:
So set your face firmly toward the [true] religion, as a pure natural believer, God's natural pattern on which He made mankind. There is no changing God's creation. That is the true religion-but most people do not know it. (Qur'an, 30:30)
In light of these discoveries, modern medicine is starting to become aware of this truth. As Patrick Glynn says, "contemporary medicine is clearly moving in the direction of acknowledging dimensions of healing beyond the purely material."18
Society: The Fall of Communism, Fascism, and The Hippie
Dream
The collapse of atheism did not occur only in astrophysics,
biology,
psychology, and medicine; it also happened in politics and
social
morality.
The collapse of communism may be considered one of the most
important
examples of this. Communism may be considered the most
important political
result of nineteenth-century atheism. The founders of this
ideology,
Marx, Engels, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Leon Trotsky
(1879-1940),
or Mao Zedong (1893-1976), all adopted atheism as a basic
principle.
A primary goal of all communist regimes was to produce
atheistic societies
and destroy religious belief. Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's
Communist
China, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Albania, and some Eastern bloc
countries
applied immense pressure on Muslims and other religious
people, sometimes
to the point of committing mass murder.
Yet, amazingly, at the end of the 1980s, this bloody atheist
system
collapsed. When we examine the reasons for this dramatic
fall, we
see that what collapsed was actually atheism. Patrick Glynn
writes:
To be sure, secular historians would say that the greatest mistake of Communism was to attempt to defy the laws of economics. But other laws, too, came into play … Moreover, as historians penetrate the circumstances of the Communist collapse, it is becoming clearer that the Soviet elite was itself in the throes of an atheistic "crisis of faith." Having lived under an atheistic ideology-one that consisted of lies and that was based on a "Big Lie"- the Soviet system suffered a radical demoralization, in every sense of that term. People, including the ruling elite, lost all sense of morality and all sense of hope.19
The
twentieth century documented not only the fall of communism,
but also
that of fascism, another fruit of nineteenth-century
anti-religious
philosophy. Fascism is the outcome of a philosophy that may be
called
a mixture of atheism and paganism, and is intensely hostile to
theist
religions. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), who may be called
the father
of fascism, extolled the morality of barbarous idolatrous
societies,
attacked Christianity and other monotheistic religions, and
even called
himself the "Anti-Christ." His disciple, Martin Heidegger
(1889-1976), was an avid Nazi supporter, and the ideas of
these two
atheist thinkers gave impetus to the terrifying savagery of
Nazi Germany.
The Second World War, which caused the death of 55 million
people, is
another example of the calamity that such atheist ideologies
as fascism
and communism have brought upon humanity.
At this point, we must recall Social
Darwinism, another
atheist ideology that helped cause both world wars. In his
Europe Since
1870, Harvard history professor James Joll states that behind
each of
the two world wars lay the philosophical views of Social
Darwinist European
leaders who believed in the myth that war was a biological
necessity
and that nations developed through conflict.20
Another social consequence of atheism appeared in Western
democracies.
In the present day, there is a tendency to regard the West as
the "Christian
world." However, since the nineteenth century, a quickly
growing
atheist culture has held sway with Christian culture, and
today there
is a conflict between them in what we call Western
civilization. And
this atheist element was the true cause of Western
imperialism, moral
degeneration, despotism, and other negative manifestations.
Glynn notes that attempts to turn America
into an atheist
country also have harmed society. The fact that the sexual
revolution,
for example, that spread during the 1960s and 1970s caused
immense social
damage in terms of traditional moral values is accepted even
by secular
historians.21
The hippie movement was a demonstration of this social damage.
A world
without religion actually brought them to an unhappy end. The
hippy
leaders of the 1960s either killed themselves or died from
drug-induced
comas in the early 1970s. Many other young hippies shared a
similar
fate.
Members of the same generation who turned to violence found
themselves
on the receiving end of violence. The 1968 generation, which
turned
its back on God and religion and imagined they could find
salvation
in such concepts as revolution or selfish Epicureanism, ruined
both
themselves and their own societies.
The Movement Toward
Religious
Morality
The facts given above clearly show that atheism is undergoing
an inevitable
collapse. In other words, humanity is-and will be-turning
toward God,
and not only in the scientific and political communities. From
prominent
statesmen to movie stars and pop artists, those who influence
opinion
in the West are far more religious than they used to be. Many
people
have seen the truth and come to believe in God after having
lived for
years as atheists.
Interestingly, the developments contributing
to this
result also began in the second half of the 1970s. The
anthropic principle
first appeared in the 1970s, and scientific criticism of
Darwinism started
to be loudly voiced at the same time. The turning point
against Freud's
atheist dogma was M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. For
this reason,
Glynn, in the 1997 edition of his book, writes that "over the
past
twenty years, a significant body of evidence has emerged,
shattering
the foundations of the long-dominant modern secular
worldview."22
Surely, the fact that the atheist worldview has been shaken
means that
another worldview is rising, which is belief in God. Since the
end of
the 1970s (or, from the beginning of the fourteenth century
according
to the Muslim calendar), the world has seen a rise in
religious values.
Like other social processes, because this develops over a long
period
of time instead of all at once, a majority of people may not
notice
it. However, those who evaluate the development a little more
carefully
see that the world is at a major turning point in the realm of
ideas.
Conclusion
We are living at an important time. Atheism, which people have
tried
for hundreds of years to portray as the "way of reason and
science,"
is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. Materialist
philosophy,
which sought to use science for its own ends, has been
defeated by science.
A world rescuing itself from atheism will turn to God and
religion.
But, to what religion will it turn? With God's permission,
that religion
will be Islam.
The time is fast approaching when many people who are living
in ignorance
with no knowledge of religious morality will be graced by
faith in the
impending post-atheist world.
1 Patrick Glynn, God:
The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a
Postsecular
World , Prima Publishing, California, 1997, pp.19-20
2 John Maddox, "Down with the Big Bang", Nature, vol.
340, 1989, p. 378
3 Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint, London: Penguin
Books, 1987,
p. 203
4 Paul Davies and John Gribbin, The Matter Myth, Simon
& Schuster,
New York, 1992, p. 10
5 As quoted in Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God,
Touchstone,
New York, 2001, p. 7
6 Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, Touchstone,
New York,
2001, p. 8
7 Ibid., p. 28
8 Ibid., p. xi
9 Ibid., p. 48
10 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of
the First
Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 184
11 Charles Darwin, Life and Letter of Charles Darwin,
vol. II,
From Charles Darwin to J. Do Hooker, March 29, 1863
12 "Hoyle on Evolution", Nature,
vol. 294, November 12, 1981, p. 105
13 Edwin R. Wallace IV, "Psychiatry and Religion: A
Dialogue",
in Joseph H. Smith and Susan A. Handelman, eds.,
Psychoanalysis
andReligion, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,
1990, p.
1005
14 Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation
of Faith
and Reason in a Postsecular World , Prima Publishing,
California,
1997, p.69
15 Ibid., p.78
16 Herbert Benson, Mark Stark, Timeless Healing, Simon
& Schuste,
New York, 1996, p. 203
17 Ibid., p.193
18 Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation
of Faith
and Reason in a Postsecular World , Prima Publishing,
California,
1997, p.94
19 Ibid., p.161-162
20 James Joll, Europe Since 1870: An International
History, Penguin
Books, Middlesex, 1990, p.102-103
21 Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation
of Faith
and Reason in a Postsecular World , Prima Publishing,
California,
1997, p.163
22 Ibid., p.2
