Christianity and Islamic Religions: A Blessing or a Curse Part 2

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resulted in the death of innocence. So in a sense religion lead individuals to miss-rank things on their priority list.
The dream of any atheist is the creation of an atheist world, but why? In an atheist people religions and beliefs in supernatural things are absent. In an atheist there would be no God to pray for to make our wishes and dreams come true. Sentences such as “Inchallah” well prevailed among believers would make no sense in an atheist world. Instead of hoping for a miracle to happen and pray for it, atheist would become more realistic and would work harder for their dreams to happen. So by realizing that only they are capable of achieving such, people would become more productive.
In an atheist world science would be the element on which everything is based on. Theology would be absent, so instead of using stories and myths to research the origin of the universe, human beings would use nature surrounding them and search for touchable clues. As such there would be no place for doubt and only one truth would exist. For we know that in our current religious world many stories exist for the sequence of events that led to the creation of the universe and Human beings as well. In many religious countries, church or mosque leaders are considered as scientists by the believers. This is completely nonsense for over the history and until recently religious teaching opposed scientific breakthroughs. This science and religion conflict began in the 17th century when Galileo was condemned by the church after his discovery that the earth was turning around the sun rather the opposite as the Church was preaching at that time. In the end Galileo was forced and threatened to declare his ideas as being false. Years later proved his th...

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... like blaming a country with specific laws permitting the presence of a safe and healthy society for the existence of criminals. History is full of evidence supporting this. Many are the example of reformers who fought for the rights of their community in a very peaceful way and who were religious. Such examples include “Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, and Mahatma Gandhi” (Habermas, 2008, P.816). Also history is

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