God Arises
Religion and Society
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totalitarianism left the individual helpless and
suppressed with his material needs uncatered for.
The new man-made laws had certainly not
produced justice for all, and while the latter half of
the twentieth century has seen attempts to reconcile
the demands of the individual and society, this
experiment likewise seems to be leading nowhere.
Indeed, what man so urgently requires is not one
experiment after another, but an eternal law,
applicable to all peoples, all situation and valid for
all times. But human reasoning, when not
underpinned by religion, leads us in exactly the
opposite direction. As Kohler states quite
unequivocally in,
The Philosophy of Law
, “
Here there
is no eternal law. Inevitably, the very law that is
suitable for our age cannot be suitable for another.
All we can do is make an effort to provide every
culture with a suitable legal system. Something
which is beneficial for one culture might be harmful
for another.”
This concept takes away all stability from the
philosophy of law. The idea that people must have
a law which suits their own particular culture is one
that leads human thought to blind relativism. Bereft
