ISLAM

48 ISLAM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY
in his Cross in the Crucible very truly says that : "A
religion which belittles knowledge and magnifies
faith will not rank high amongst the religions of the
world in point of culture. Morality is intimately
associated with culture. Civilisation is ethical,
morality is its foundation. But Christianity has
allied itself with ignorance." But in Christendom,
as the Nineteenth Century Review states,
intellectualism
is regarded as the enemy of faith."
Christianity would keep its adherents permanently
in the dark and would not allow them to be cultured
and reasonable ;
on the contrary, it will foster ignorance
and superstition among the masses if it can only
to preserve the "spiritual prestige of mediaeval
Christendom." This Christian spirit will sound
ludicrous, if notakwardly humorous, to every heathen r
be he a Muslim, Hindu or a Budhist.
Another thing that can not but amuse a heathen
is the Christian belief in the infallibility of the Bible.
"To deny the authority of the Bible is in Christendom
tantamount to heresy, for which the law provides the
severest penalty." Every Christian has to believe
willingly or unwillingly that
"
"Scripture is a fountain
of infallible truth, and exempt from all errors ; every
word of it is absolutely true, whether expressive of
dogma, of morality or of history." The question that
naturally arises here is whether the Bible is as true as
the Divine parentage of Christ or of the story of the
resurrection and if both are true, which of between
these two, is more true.