Our God — Page xiv
Foreword to the Present Edition In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), who coined the phrase ‘God is dead’, and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), who postulated that God and religious teachings are illusions to accommodate for human psychological and social needs, led a nascent movement promoting atheist beliefs. When Christian clerics were unable to reconcile their beliefs regarding God in light of scientific discov- eries, people began to fall away from belief altogether. Gradually, the misperception that science somehow contradicted religion became widespread, infecting members of every revealed religion, including Islam. The Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as (1835–1908), taught that the laws of nature and the laws of religion emanate from the same Source—God—and can never be in contradiction. Thus, the works of God and the words of God are always in harmony with