Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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who can think and perceive beyond such phenomenal values. The question concerns that of fully knowing and executing the essentials of their faiths into appropriate action, thus making a precedent before they preach.
In the dawn of a new age, religions have to play a vital role. But the followers of religions can't do anything by remaining aloof from the totality. Mere affiliation to any religion is not enough but they have to probe the existing reality and make their evaluation accordingly. In the next decades when new discoveries in cosmology, genetics and brain functioning and so on are going to challenge still more, and disprove the age-old faiths which the followers of religions are holding, they need to make a great beginning in recreating and reformulating their basic values.
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