God Arises
Religion and Society
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that freedom was the greatest of human values.
Since the time of the French revolution till today,
this new concept of freedom has held sway. But the
undeniably negative end-results have now brought
scholars to the point of declaring this concept
meaningless. Professor B.F. Skinner, the well-
known American psychologist, who developed the
theory of programmed and social learning based on
conditioning, is now of the view that “we can’t
afford freedom.” Contrary to the opinion of 18th
and 19th century thinkers, Skinner says that
freedom is not the summum bonum. What man
needs is not unlimited freedom, but “a disciplined
culture.” This reversal in human thought is an
indirect admission of the eternal character of
revealed laws.
Much heated controversy centres nowadays on the
status of women vis-à-vis men. The emergence of
women from their homes in order to seek equality
has led to severe clashes in many fields and very
often to their own degradation. A great deal of
stress and strain could be avoided by simply
bowing to revealed law, which assigns men and
women different and separate spheres in practical
