And whenever he will feel safe he will not stop at any crime...

And whenever he will feel safe he will not stop at any crime to fulfill his desire, how much heinous that desire may appear to others. Question: Even an atheist may lead a life which is morally as perfect as that of a follower of religion. So what is the need of religion? Answer: It is a fallacy, to think that the moral life of an atheist is without any obligation to religion. Because those moral thoughts have been bestowed upon him by no other factor but religion.

Religious moral teachings have been ingrained in human mind for thousands of years. They have been bestowed from father to son (heredity) and from friend to friend, (environment). These moral values have become inseparable from his conscience. But what is conscience? It is but the religious and moral thoughts which have come to him from his religious forefathers, and now he cannot escape from them. Conscience is based upon the moral teaching of religion.

How can the conscience survive, when those teachings of religion are routed out of the humanity as a whole? Anybody who ponders deeply upon this point will come to the conclusion that no morality can hold is ground, if separated from belief in God and religion. Misunderstandings About Religion Often we hear some patent slogan used against ’’Religion’’ they are nowadays widely used by the communists. They are: (a) Religion is anti-science.

(b) Religion was a drug invented by capitalists to keep the oppressed classes content with their wretched condition. In other words it was opium to make people seep. (c) Religion retards material and intellectual progress. Let us, now examine these allegations. All these statements have been made by the Europeans (from Karl Marx to Bertrand Russell) who had known a particular religion only i.e. Christianity.

They committed the intellectual sin of seeing a particular religion and assuming all religions (Including Islam) must be of the same caliber. It was, to say the least, a fallacy, if not a deliberate deception. To explain the above statement, it is necessary to pint out just in general outline what was the attitude of Christianity towards knowledge and progress. ‘’From the sixteenth century A.D. the conflict between the church and science began.

This most unfortunate struggle was not started by the scientist but by the protagonists of Christianity, who feared that their religion was in dire danger of losing its hold on the masses. Their house of cards was threatening to fall down.