Milli Gazete columnist Siyami Akyel writes on Sola Scriptura, Seculerism and Deism. Here is the full article;
The emergence of anti-religious ideas along with the Enlightenment in the West is related to the integration of the distorted Christianity into the pagan culture and the orientation of "Irrationalism". Disturbed beliefs such as "the domination of the church, the faith of three gods, the original sin" have led to new quests in the Christian Western world. In this quest, in addition to the integration of Christianity into pagan culture, the direction of irrationalization and the domination of the church, the influence of the Westernization and secularization through colonialism can not be denied.
The birth of capitalism, the non-limitative ambition of capitalist understanding, the drive to control every field, has also manifested itself in the religious arena, in the industrialized West, by processing the sources of income that have been obtained from almost every part of the world through colonialism. The concept of "Sola Scriptura / holy book (biblical)," which began in the West towards the end of the 16th century with the question of the religion of the clergy and the clergy on religion, was the subject of "The Qur'an, the Ehl-i Kur" an and the Islam of the Qur'an "in the name of the Islamic world.
Sola Scriptura, the so-called "Holy Book," rejects all items in Christian culture in the West, and this process, in which the Bible is accepted as a sole proprietorship, will soon be relied upon from social, political, and legal aspects of religion and will fill this space according to its own desires "Secularism" has emerged. According to secularism, religion should be imprisoned between social life, state administration and political hatred, between creator and individual. In fact, the slogan "Left Scripture / Holy Scripture Bible" was uttered only to dismiss the church. Because secularism, which came to follow, confined religion to the creator's individuality and made it withdraw from the social, political and legal fields, instead of replacing it with sanctity, the human authority in these areas was to become a judge. So religion will only deal with affairs related to the affairs, not to interfere with world affairs.
The third leg of this process is "Deism". According to this teaching, the universe was designed by God, the movement was initiated from the outside and left alone. God's duty is to create, not to intervene in the next process. The process after creation is the man, who keeps it in mind. According to the deism, there is no prophecy, no sacred book, no heaven and no belief in hell. In short, there is no religion ... In fact Deism, Atheism is a shy and cowardly state ... It denies the creator like atheism indirectly but indirectly. Deism, which denies the whole religion as well as the denials of religious things such as prophets, angels, books, does not stop here, and limits the creator. The Creator accepts creation, does not accept intervention. If atheism advocates how the universe exists on its own, Deism advocates that the world continues on its own.
Sola Scriptura/holy book only (biblical), secularism and finally Deism ... All these developments are the emergence of Christianity as a pagan culture, that is, after the destruction of the right of religion. However, these new trends, which have emerged with the purpose of eliminating the church's repression, have not functioned further than disruption of corrupted Christianity.
Deism, which borders the creator, claims that the Creator has pulled to the side of the world after he created the universe, has left man unrestrained, can attribute infiniteness to the created human being. However, in the Qur'an Allah says;
"Does man think that he will be left neglected?" (Surah Al-Qiyamah 36.)
The "Deists" claim that the Creator rests after he creates the world, claiming that, like the Jews, God has made the world after that he gone to rest. In the Qur'an Allah says;
"Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and earth and did not fail in their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes. Indeed, He is over all things competent." (Al-Ahqaf 33.)