Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 62
62 For instance, at the time when the god of the Christians was still alive, they were in a much better state, but as soon as he was overtaken by death—which is known as the Atone- ment—Satan took control of them in an amazing manner, and countless doors of sin, transgression and egotism were opened for them. The Christians themselves acknowledge this * fact. Reverend Pfander, author of M i z a nul H aq , says unsteadily with a bottle of beer. I saw many decent and respectable people lying drunk in the drains. Thanks to alcoholism, so many sui- cides take place in London every year that they have become a virtual epidemic. ( Rahbar-e-Hind , Lahore, 1st February, 1883). Another gentleman has similarly mentioned that adultery is so common in London that over seventy thousand illegitimate children are born in that city every year. He has written such things about the immorality of those people, that I find it impossible to go into their details. Some others have written that, in Europe, out of ten cultured and edu- cated people, nine will be found to be atheists. They have totally freed themselves of religious restrictions, and do not believe in God, nor con- sider themselves accountable to Him. Day by day, atheism continues to spread in Europe like a disease. And the British Government, because of its liberal stand, does not feel at all averse to its spread, so much so, that some confirmed atheists have found seats in the Parliament, and no one seems to care. In modern European civilization, it is not only considered lawful for strangers to kiss young women, but is even seen as something com- mendable. No one can say with certainty if there is a single woman in England who, in her very youth, has not been kissed by some young man who is unrelated to her. Materialism has reached such proportions that Alexander Russell Webb has written in one of his letters (to me) that, in his view, there is not one among the civilized and educated peo- ple of that country who cares for the hereafter, and everyone of them is totally given to material-worship. It becomes clear from all these state- ments that all the blessings of Jesus’ Atonement, which Christian Contd…