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HARUN YAHYA

commands and prohibitions—which finally resulted in the perversion
of religious belief.

Contamination of Religions in European History

We can see traces of a similar contamination in the beliefs of his-
torical European societies. In his book The Religion of Greece in

Prehistoric Times, Axel W. Persson, a researcher in Ancient Greek pa-
ganism, writes:
. . . there later developed a larger number of more or less significant
figures which we meet with in Greek religious myths. In my opinion,
their multiplying variety depends to a very considerable degree on the
different invocating names of originally one and the same deity. 80
The same traces of alteration can be seen in Italy. An archaeolo-
gist by the name of Irene Rosenzweig, after researching the Iguvine
tables, which date from Etruscan times, concludes that "deities are
distinguished by adjectives, which in their turn emerge as independent di-

vine powers." 81
In short, all of the last century's anthropological and archaeo-
logical evidence indicates that throughout history, societies first be-
lieved in one God but altered this belief with the passage of time. At
first, peoples believed in God Who created everything from nothing,
Who sees and knows all things and Who is Lord of all the worlds.
But in time, the titles of our Lord were wrongly considered as sepa-
rate deities, and people began to worship these false deities. True re-
ligion is the worship of the one and only God. Polytheistic religions
developed from the contamination of the true religion, which our
Lord has revealed to humanity since the time of Adam (pbuh).

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