The history of humanity is shaped by a wide range of philosophical schools and ideologies. From early cultures through antiquity to the modern age, these ideas have influenced our worldview and continue to affect us today. A detailed overview sheds light on the major movements and their evolution over millennia.
Does science contradict religion or complement it? With each new discovery, the boundary of the unknown shifts. The role of religion seems to shrink as science advances further. Is this a natural progression, or will humanity one day find that there are questions even science cannot answer?
Religious criticism has evolved from early attempts in antiquity, through profound philosophical debates in the Enlightenment, to radical socio-critical and psychological analyses in the 19th and 20th centuries. Critics like Deschner and Ibn Warraq have expanded the debate to Christianity and Islam, while the New Atheist movement challenges the role of religion in a scientifically oriented world. This development shows the increasing willingness to treat religious beliefs as subjects of rational and ethical criticism.
Christianity is not the universal truth it claims to be. It ignores the diversity of religions and worldviews while asserting its own exclusive claim to truth. Religion is always embedded in time and space, and none is universal to all of humanity. Christianity spreads like a cancer in poor countries, financed by questionable methods. Even when it presents itself as charity,
there is often self-interest behind it. Can an omnipotent, good God truly be responsible for the suffering in the world?