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Over half a century ago, said Alexander Soljjjnitsyn.

While I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following

explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia.

Men have forgotten God.

That's why all this has happened.

Is secularization a sign of social progress?

Is belief in God a superstition that is no longer warranted in a civilization as advanced as ours?

In this video we explore the phenomenon of religion, the concept of God, and whether a religious

revival could heal many of the ills that plague modern society.

The five major religions of history, be it Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam, all have lifespans

that far exceed any secular social movement, dynasty, empire, or state. Religion has played an

important role in every society we know of, and even though its popularity waxes and wanes,

the majority of men and women from all time periods and

across all regions of the globe have believed in some form of God and practiced some form of

religion. But what is religion? Religion is a multifaceted phenomenon, but at its essence

it is the attempt to connect man with the divine. Religious rituals,

forms of worship, ceremonies, moral codes, and belief systems help bring us into harmony with

the supernatural. One can find religious thinkers from both East and West in agreement on this

point. The great Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda said that,

The end of all religions is the realizing of God and the soul. That is the one universal religion.

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