RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 412 ~ that freedom was the greatest of human values. Since the time of the French revolution till today, this new concept of freedom has held sway. But the undeniably negative end-results have now brought scholars to the point of declaring this concept meaningless. Professor B.F. Skinner, the wellknown American psychologist, who developed the theory of programmed and social learning based on conditioning, is now of the view that “we can’t afford freedom.” Contrary to the opinion of 18th and 19th century thinkers, Skinner says that freedom is not the summum bonum. What man needs is not unlimited freedom, but “a disciplined culture.” This reversal in human thought is an indirect admission of the eternal character of revealed laws. Much heated controversy centres nowadays on the status of women vis-à-vis men. The emergence of women from their homes in order to seek equality has led to severe clashes in many fields and very often to their own degradation. A great deal of stress and strain could be avoided by simply bowing to revealed law, which assigns men and women different and separate spheres in practical