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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

of the Soviet Union, then on the citizens of China, Cambodia, Vietnam,
North Korea, Cuba and various African and Latin American countries,
unparalleled savagery. A total of 120 million people were killed by com-
munist regimes or organizations. It is also evident that the Western brand
of humanism (capitalist systems) has not succeeded in bringing peace and
happiness to their own societies or to other areas of the world.
The collapse of humanism's argument on religion has also been man-

ifested in the field of psychology. The Freudian myth, a corner-stone of
the atheist dogma since early twentieth century, has been invalidated by
empirical data. Patrick Glynn, of the George Washington University, ex-
plains this fact in his book titled God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of
Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World :
The last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psy-
choanalytic vision. Most significant has been the exposure of Freud's
views of religion (not to mention a host of other matters) as entirely fal-
lacious. Ironically enough, scientific research in psychology over the
past twenty-five years has demonstrated that, far from being a neurosis
or source of neuroses as Freud and his disciples claimed, religious belief
is one of the most consistent correlates of overall mental health and hap-
piness. Study after study has shown a pow-
erful relationship between religious belief
and practice, on the one hand, and healthy
behaviors with regard to such problems as
suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, divorce,
depression, even, perhaps surprisingly,
levels of sexual satisfaction in marriage, on
the other hand. 37
In short, the supposed scientific justifica-
tion behind humanism has been proven in-
valid and its promises vain. Nevertheless,
humanists have not abandoned their philoso-

phy, but rather, in fact, have tried to spread it

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