Christianity and Islamic Religions: A Blessing or a Curse Part 3

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full of atheist regimes and leaders that committed inhuman crimes and massacres that are as bad if not worse than those committed by religious ones. “Atheist and secular regimes in the twentieth century alone have killed well over 100 million people more than one hundred times the total deaths caused by Christians from the Crusades until the present” (Habermas, 2008, P.826) These regimes include the Nazi regime of Hitler, the soviet republic of Lenin and Stalin and the Chinese communism.
Another well-known argument that is often used by atheist is that religion is against science and that believers are illogical human beings due to their beliefs in the existence of God. However, a case study of the relationship that exists between religion and science will once again prove this argument wrong. Dr. Abdulla Galadari wrote an article named “Science vs. Religion: The Debate Ends” (2011) that clarify this relationship. Dr. Galadari holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and has an MSc in Civil Engineering and a MEng in Engineering Management using GIS. Atheist scientists reason using their mind and senses and think that religious people are unreasonable. Freud (1927) is one example of many atheists who consider religion “as neurosis, illusion, poison, intoxicant, and childishness to be overcome.” (Galadari, 2011, P.1) and that one should be hypnotized in order to be religious. To them science describes the physical world, while religion is wrong to give world views because it is uniquely concerned with the spiritual world. We’ll begin by proving wrong all of what has been mentioned. First of all as it was stated in the article “Suppression of science is not part of any of the world religious Scriptures. In all the major religious Scripture...

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...eads to an overall happier life. It doesn’t truly matter whether religions are true or not, their effect on the individual will still be the same. Religious individuals believe in supernatural beings and events such as miracles. Believing in miracles gives hope to people in their time of desperation, when all what they do ends up in failure their belief in God remains and urges them to never give up. It’s a very warm

Works Cited

 Berger, P. L. (2012). Further Thoughts on Religion and Modernity. Springer
 Galadari, A. (2011). Science vs. religion: The debate ends.The International Journal of Science in Society,2(2), Retrieved from http://science-society.com/journal/
 Habermas, G. R. (2008). The plight of the new atheism:a critique. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 813-827.
 Witt, J. (2007). The big picture. (1st Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

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