Religion, Problem or Solution? (Saddam Husain)

Source: Charles Kimball, when religion becomes evil.

            Looking back to long history 4000 BC when people defined something as God, which was the time where people created religion and sacrificed many things to satisfy the God.  People’s perceptions about god evolve time and time and it causes many conflicts in the world. In this case, religion becomes a problem that frightens people to live together. But history has also proved that religion is a solution of human’s problems.

            In postmodern era, there are some experts of atheism who claim religion as a problem and criticize religion in their books, such as Richard Dawkins (the god delusion, 2006), Sam Harris (the end of faith, 2004 ), and Christopher Hitchens ( god is not great, 2007). They claim that material is the only reality that exists in the world, there is no abstract things like soul, spirit, love, and even god that believed as a creator of universe. Moreover, religion promises peacefulness but the fact is nonsense. Human tragedies which are done in the name of God have slammed human rights. For example sectarian conflict in middle east, holy war, and  11^th September 2001 tragedy that killed many innocent people in U.S. and other tragedies caused by religion.

                 But some experts like Huston smith the author of “The World’s religions” and Kenneth miller dispute those claims. They argue what atheists claims are the weakness of science. They think that the main crisis we face in 21^st century is the crisis of spirituality. Science that atheist offer as the way for better world precisely is not solution because we may see holocaust as the real example and some other anti – Semitism movements which kill many people such as in soviets and china. Otherwise, religion opens a way out to regulate the world through its teaching about love and compassion.

            Essentially, religion with its holiness is undisputed  truth but human make it complicated by mixing it with their own interests. Thus religion appears like a problem that causes many conflicts and disaster for people.