Religion and Science
9. A Last Word
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nation or race. But in terms of religious absolutes,
this is an absurdity: the truth is that an individual
or group following divine revelation will be consi-
dered ‘chosen’ in the eves of God irrespective of
family,
race
or
nationality.
The
former
interpretation of religion, from the religious point of
view, is little better than a denial of religion. A
religion which does not base itself upon the concept
of rewards and punishments justly meted out, and
reduces itself simply to a personal undertaking with
no relation to other human beings, recognizing as
its fountainhead not a living and conscious God,
but man’s own mind and consciousness, (or even
the unconscious) can only be described as fallacious
and a pure matter of expediency. It is unacceptable
to mankind, for adherence to such creed is
tantamount to saying, “there is no God but man,”
rather than “There is no god but God.”
1.
Man the Unknown,
p. 130.
2. An Historian’s Approach to Religion,
p. 123.
3.
Ibid.,
pp. 250-51
4.
lbid.,
p. 135
