God Arises
Review
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the Orientalist’s contentions to be totally fallacious.
The theories of the anti-religionists are no better.
Just as in the above example, an attempt has been
made to make a show of ‘scientific’ reasoning by a
willful misinterpretation of the presence of certain
ancient stones, similarly, by presenting certain half-
truths and a large number of irrelevant facts viewed
from a distorted angle, the enemies of religion claim
that their so-called scientific method of study has
actually done away with religion. On the contrary,
if the factual data on the subject is studied in its
entirety and from the correct angle, an entirely
opposite conclusion will most certainly be arrived
at.
Indeed, the veracity of religion is proved by the fact
that even the most intelligent of thinkers begin to
talk nonsense when they refuse to make any
reference to religion. Do away with religion and
you do away with the essential framework within
which your problems may be discussed and solved.
Most of the scholars whose names figure on the list
of anti-religionists are very intelligent and learned
persons. These geniuses have entered the arena of
religious debate, equipped with the most valuable
