In 1978, the Catholic theologian Hans Kung raised a few pertinent questions in his book, Does God Exist? “Has religion any future? Can we not have morality even without religion? Is not science sufficient? Has not religion developed out of magic? Will it not perish in the process of evolution? Is not God from the outset a projection of man (Feuerbach), opium of the people (Marx), resentment of those who have fallen short (Nietzsche), illusion of those who have remained infantile (Freud)? …” The decades that followed proved that the theologian’s anxieties were ill-founded. Religious fundamentalism of all sorts flourished in the 1990s all over the world. The communist USSR collapsed politically as well as ideologically, and people began to flock toward religions perhaps in order to fill the vacuum left by the Marxist ideology that had vanished. Samuel P Huntington says in his book The Clash of Civilizations and the remaking of world order , “In 1994, 30 percent
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