PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion of The Twentieth Centurybetween religion and science.Thus,when the scientific minds of Europeand America took their stand against supernaturalrevelation and showed its errors byimpartial criticism the ready-witted defendersof the traditional religion tried their best toavoid the conflict between religion andscienceand to support the theological dogmas eitherby taking shelter under history and callingtheir religion historical, or by making it standon faith alone, because faith according to themis above all criticism.But the archeological researches and thehigher cirticisms of the old and new Testamentshave enlightened the minds of thepresent generation by explaining the origin,authorship and the dates of the compositionof each of the canonized books of the ChristianScriptures. If we study the various religiousscriptures of the world, we shall find that onereligion is just as good as any other, and thatone set of scriptural writings which claims to16