Religion and Science
9. A Last Word
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9. A LAST WORD
Vis-à-vis
the
above-mentioned
modern
interpretation of religion, I quote below what Alexis
Carrel has to say of himself:
He (the writer) realizes that his description of
this aspect of mental activity will please
neither men of science nor men of religion.
Scientists will consider such an attempt as
puerile or insane; ecclesiastics, as improper
and aborted, because mystical phenomena
belong only in an indirect way to the domain
of science.
1
The phraseology Carrel uses to express his concept
of religion is frequently redolent of the religious,
but there the similarity ends, for in actual fact, there
is no real difference between Carrel’s view and a
purely atheistic one.
1. The first thing we have to consider is that
according to this interpretation, religion emerges as
something unreal. It implies that the concepts of
God, life after death and revelation have no basis in
reality, but are miracles wrought by our own
