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    The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion
    The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion
    The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion
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    The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion

    By Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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    Discusses the irreligious, so-called religions of the recent past; in the 20th century, communism, fascism, and other ideologies based on disbelief emerged and spread extensively. This book explains the materialist foundations of the false religions, and the enormous suffering they caused for millions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Publishing
    Release dateJun 30, 2011
    ISBN9786054312269
    The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion
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    Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

    Now writing under the pen-name of HARUN YAHYA, Adnan Oktar was born in Ankara in 1956. Having completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara, he studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, he has published many books on political, scientific, and faith-related issues. Harun Yahya is well-known as the author of important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, their invalid claims, and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and such bloody ideologies as fascism and communism. Harun Yahya's works, translated into 60 different languages, constitute a collection for a total of more than 45,000 pages with 30,000 illustrations. His pen-name is a composite of the names Harun (Aaron) and Yahya (John), in memory of the two esteemed Prophets who fought against their peoples' lack of faith. The Prophet's seal on his books' covers is symbolic and is linked to their contents. It represents the Qur'an (the Final Scripture) and Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), last of the prophets. Under the guidance of the Qur'an and the Sunnah (teachings of the Prophet [may Allah bless him and grant him peace]), the author makes it his purpose to disprove each fundamental tenet of irreligious ideologies and to have the "last word," so as to completely silence the objections raised against religion. He uses the seal of the final Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), who attained ultimate wisdom and moral perfection, as a sign of his intention to offer the last word. All of Harun Yahya's works share one single goal: to convey the Qur'an's message, encourage readers to consider basic faith-related issues such as Allah's existence and unity and the Hereafter; and to expose irreligious systems' feeble foundations and perverted ideologies. Harun Yahya enjoys a wide readership in many countries, from India to America, England to Indonesia, Poland to Bosnia, Spain to Brazil, Malaysia to Italy, France to Bulgaria and Russia. Some of his books are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian, Chinese, Swahili, Hausa, Dhivehi (spoken in Mauritius), Russian, Serbo-Croat (Bosnian), Polish, Malay, Uygur Turkish, Indonesian, Bengali, Danish and Swedish. Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental in many people recovering faith in Allah and gaining deeper insights into their fai...

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      The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion - Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

      THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE RELIGION OF IRRELIGION

      Harun Yahya- Adnan Oktar

      Published by Global Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2011 by Harun Yahya

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

      Website: http: // www.harunyahya.com

      E-mail: [email protected]

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Religions of Irreligion: Materialism and Darwinism

      Defending a Theory Abandoned by Science

      The Significance of Darwinism for Irreligion

      The False Religions Formed by Materialism

      Idolaters of the 20th Century

      The Idolatrous Belief That Dominates Societies of Today

      The False Gods of Evolutionists: Unconscious Atoms

      Worship of the Sun

      The Disease of Materialism and Naturalism

      False Religions Formed by the Materialist and

      Evolutionist Outlook on Life

      Leaders of Irreligion Who Call People to the Fire

      Illustrating the Falsehood of Their Ancestors

      Conclusion

      A Nation Without Religion Cannot Survive

      Terrorists Are a Product of Darwinism

      Methods of Fighting Against the Religion of Irreligion

      Breaking the Idols of Irreligion

      The Method Advised by Bediüzzaman for Opposing

      Disbelief

      The Truth That Defeats the Religions of Irreligion

      The Mystery Behind Matter

      What Exists in the External World?

      Is Our Brain Distinct from the Outside World?

      The Nearest Being to Us Is Allah

      Everything Possessed Is Intrinsically Illusory

      Materialists Have Fallen into the Biggest Trap in History

      Conclusion

      Appendix: The Evolution Misconception

      The First Insurmountable Obstacle: The Origin of Life

      Life Comes from Life

      Inconclusive Efforts in the 20th Century

      The Complex Structure of Life

      Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution

      Lamarck's Impact

      Neo-Darwinism and Mutations

      The Fossil Record: No Sign of Intermediate Forms

      Darwin's Hopes Shattered

      The Tale of Human Evolution

      Technology in the Eye and Ear

      To Whom Does the Consciousness That Sees and Hears

      Within the Brain Belong?

      A Materialist Faith

      References

      INTRODUCTION

      At first glance you may have been puzzled by the title The Religion of Irreligion because religion, as perceived by many, is usually associated with Allah's revelation. Alternatively, there are other beliefs known as false religions, like Buddhism and Hinduism. As the name suggests, irreligion is a concept that rejects religion completely and denies the existence of Allah.¹

      However, there exist today in every corner of the world particular systems of belief adhered to as strictly as religion, yet they are never called religion. In this book such ideologies as materialism, communism, Darwinism (the so-called scientific basis of those ideologies) and other systems based on disbelief are referred to as religions of irreligion. That is simply because they have all evolved over time to become religions in themselves, with a complete system of beliefs and practices. They all have their own idolized leaders and immutable books which their followers learn by heart. False religions spread rapidly and attract many adherents who are committed to making the religion of irreligion prevail and perpetually oppose the just and true religion (i.e., Islam), publishing books and articles to spread propaganda in favor of their manmade religions.

      Among the major obstacles encountered by adherents to irreligion is the Qur’an, the only existing guide to the true path, revealed by Allah. The Qur’an gives a detailed account of the struggle that is to be waged against false religions and entrusts believers with this noble responsibility. At present there is a need for faithful people to undertake the service of showing false religions to be erroneous and to give serious effort to this cause.

      Throughout the 20th century until today the religion of irreligion has, perhaps for the first time in history, spread extensively. In the words of the Qur’an, the followers of irreligion "use falsehood [thinking] to invalidate thereby the truth."² That is why, especially in our age, it is of great importance to take part in the noble struggle mentioned in the Qur’an and refute ideologically all the tenets of irreligion.

      Allah gave important information to His servants who take upon themselves this honorable duty:

      Rather, We dash the truth upon falsehood, and it destroys it, and thereupon it departs.³

      Therefore, we aim to eliminate falsehood by presenting basic truths about matter and about Darwin's theory of evolution, which can be found in the latter part of this book.

      RELIGIONS OF IRRELIGION:MATERIALISM AND DARWINISM

      Materialism is an ideology that has existed since time immemorial and holds that the only absolute being is matter. According to this false belief, matter has existed from the infinite past and will remain forever. The most significant feature of materialism is its rejection of the existence of a Creator and other religious beliefs. There are many movements and ideologies in the world that hold irreligion as their main dogma, and materialism is the foundation of a great majority of them. To put it another way, the most effective influence in irreligion is materialism.

      Since the time of the Sumerians and ancient Greeks, materialist thinking has permeated human history. However, it was mainly in the 19th century that this superstitious belief made its way to a well-established system of thought. But one obstacle to materialist understanding as it gathered momentum was the question, How did the universe and living beings come into existence?

      It was within the same century that the theory of evolution, presented by Charles Darwin, provided an answer (which actually had no scientific validity) that the materialists had sought for so long. According to this baseless theory, lifeless materials came together coincidentally due to random forces to form the first cell. And according to Darwinism, all living beings on the earth subsequently developed thanks to the evolution of that very first cell.

      Through these claims Darwin quickly became the architect of the greatest falsehood in the history of science. His theory, grounded on not a speck of scientific finding, is but fallible reasoning, as he himself admitted. Indeed, Darwin confessed in his book The Origin of Species that the evolution theory was lacking in the face of many important questions.

      Still, he expected that advances in science would make it possible to overcome those difficulties and that new scientific findings would consolidate his theory. He often mentioned this in his book, but contrary to what Darwin hoped, advances in science actually disproved the fundamental assumptions of the theory, one by one. Indeed, in spite of all the evolutionist propaganda, the theory of evolution is, as stated by Michael Denton, an Australian biologist, a theory in crisis.

      Throughout the 19th century scientific facts pertaining to the theory of evolution were totally unknown. Meanwhile, for materialists in search of scientific support, this theory was seized as an unprecedented opportunity since what Charles Darwin presented was denial of the existence of a Creator. At that period the assertion that human beings had developed from inanimate materials by pure chance was exactly what the materialists wanted to hear.

      Phillip Johnson, a professor at the University of Chicago, renowned and well respected in academic circles for his books and criticisms of the theory of evolution, makes clear what the theory represents for irreligious systems of thought:

      ...The triumph of Darwinism implied the rejection of God and set the stage for replacing biblical religion with a new faith based on evolutionary naturalism. That new faith would become the basis not just of science but also of government, law and morality. It would be the established religious philosophy of modernity.⁴

      The words of Phillip Johnson indicate the real aim of the advocates of this philosophy of irreligion. Materialists, driven to form an irreligious society that rejects the existence of Allah and His law, claim that there is no one to whom human beings must feel responsible. The misguided rationale satisfies their desire for a kind of human being who is not accountable to anyone. Their ambition is summed up by one of their scientists as follows:

      Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process, with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible.⁵

      Any person of sound mind and conscience can see, without difficulty, the senseless reasoning inherent in the statements above. The author of these statements, a scientist with a material outlook on life, attributes man's existence to his own success. However, it is obvious that at no stage of this process did man exercise his own faculty of decision-making or authority. It was Allah who created man on earth in perfect form, but the passion for being accountable to no one led materialists to expect that unconscious and mindless matter could form conscious and intelligent beings.

      It

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