The University of Basrah organizes a cultural seminar entitled (Religion in the Age of Technology)
On Thursday 7/12/2023, the Educational Guidance and Psychological Guidance Unit at the College of Administration and Economics, in cooperation with the University Communication Association, joined a cultural seminar entitled (Religion in the Age of Technology) delivered by the assist. Lect. Sajjad Nayef. Al-Salhi, teaching at the Oil Training Institute in Basrah, and the assist. Lect. Murtada. Abdul Hussein Muhammad, teaching in the Department of Economics.
The seminar included several axes, including the first axis in which the question was posed: Does modern man need the religion that man needed in ancient times? The second axis discussed alternative intellectual foundations for religion, materialistic modernity as a model, and the reliance on the material mind. The third axis answered the major existential questions (who created man and how Creation, what is the purpose of man’s existence, and where does man go through materialist philosophy, and between the fourth axis and biological and social Darwinism, a real attempt to answer these questions according to modern materialist philosophy, and finally presenting the fifth axis? The real problems produced by materialist philosophy.

The seminar aimed to explain the basic need for religion in all times, any other philosophy cannot be a substitute for religion.