Muhammad Asad Quotes
Its Real Deity, I Saw, Was No Longer Of A Spiritual Kind: It Was Comfort.
No Doubt That There Were Still Many Individuals Who Felt And Thought In Religious Terms And Made The Most Desperate Efforts To Reconcile Their Moral Beliefs With The Spirit Of Their Civilization, But They Were Only Exceptions.
The Average European - Whether Democrat Or Communist, Manual Worker Or Intellectual - Seemed To Know Only One Positive Faith: The Worship Of Material Progress, The Belief That There Could Be No Other Goal In Life Than To Make That Very Life Continually Easier Or, As The Current Expression Went, 'independent Of Nature'.
The Temples Of Faith Were The Gigantic Factories, Cinemas, Chemical Laboratories, Dance Halls, Hydroelectric Works; And Its Priests Were The Bankers, Engineers, Politician, Film Starts, Statisticians, Captains Of Industry, Record Airmen, And Commissars.
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