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MATERIALISM HAS COLLAPSED AND DISAPPEARED

Materialism: The Superstition of an Age

ncient Greek thinkers imagined that all bodies consisted of tiny particles called atoms. They
maintained that these atoms shaped the universe and all living things, without intention or di-
A rection and without being subjected to any conscious intervention. According to this belief,
matter was timeless and eternal, and nothing beyond matter could exist. Supernatural events that inter-
vened in entities’ behavior and altered their structures was sheer superstition, unacceptable. All axioms
and principles were based on the assumption that matter was an absolute reality.

Since matter was eternal, the universe must be eternal as well, and that idea served as the founda-
tion of atheism. If the entire universe had existed for all time, then according to the perversion of mate-
rialist belief, it was impossible for matter and the universe to ever have been created.
According to materialists, the universe was eternal, and therefore, there was no purpose or special

creation in it. Materialists imagined that all the balances, equilibrium, harmony and order in the uni-
verse were solely the results of chance. They claimed that everything came into being as the result of un-
conscious atoms assembling at random. And no matter how much complexity, balance and magnificent
regularity exhibited by the external world, these were still the result of purposeless coincidences.

Materialist minds had held this preconception or idée fixe ever since the days of Ancient Greece. Since
materialism rejected the concepts of “purpose” and “creation” to the universe, it also denied the existence
of a Creator. To be strictly accurate, materialism was a philosphy which had been formulated to reject Al-
lah. Many movements, ideologies and intellectual systems that rejected belief in Allah were, similarly,

rooted in materialism. In other words, materialism was the most influential religion of atheism.

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