PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centurytic religions of the world. In ancient timesreligion performed the function of science intrying to explain the phenomena and theircauses. But now, the discoveries of modernscience have shown the errors and mistakeswhich were committed by orthodox theologiansand religious teachers of the various sects ofthe world. Consequently, they have beenleft far behind by the advanced scientificthinkers of the present age.The result of this fight between science andreligion which finally began in the last centuryhas not ended yet. All the existing greatreligions have been shaken to their veryfoundations. Various attempts have been madeto harmonize religion with science but all suchattempts have ended in complete failure. Now,science has become stronger in power than theexisting religions. Sectarian religions arestruggling hard to keep up with the progress ofscience and areobliged to reject those theoriesand beliefs which were based upon tradition14