A rare anti-clerical text by an Egyptian Cypriot from 1935 comes to light again through the Lux Orbis Book Series.
ΤIn 1935, the publication of a book causes a disturbance in the Greek community of Egypt. The Scientific God by the essayist Antonis Christodoulou carries out a fierce attack against Christianity and its representatives, at the same time exalting the role of science and the progress it brings about in the evolution of human civilization. The author's pen is sharp and stormy. He deals with the conflict between Hellenism and Christianity during the first post-Christian centuries, searches for a meaning behind the teachings of the biblical texts that could benefit modern man, highlights the rapid developments in various scientific branches of his time and tries to make a prediction for a future religion of science.
The complaint addressed to the Patriarchate of Alexandria and asking for the banning of the book, fortunately is not heard. Despite all this, the work promoted for its time remains for nine, almost, decades in the oblivion of Greek Cypriot letters. The Lux Orbis Book Series proudly brings the pioneering thought of Antonis Christodoulou, a Cypriot cosmopolitan thinker of the 1930s, a worthy successor to the ideas of the radical neo-Greek Enlightenment, to the present.
"I refer to the cold-hearted and disinterested thinkers, those who make up the rational part of the people and who
if they explore their subconscious, it is impossible not to find there some penetrating doubt about what others have been taught until now about God".
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