Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer

Perhaps humanity has not found the line between... Rationality And madness yet, as scientific and cognitive development has led to non-stop debates about modern lifestyles and the disturbances that accompany them, which suggests that there are no decisive answers, especially since the history of the human mind, its development, and its diseases are the subject of a dispute between science, superstition, and literature, and does not carry within it any certainty, according to what is proposed by the book “The Cultural History of Hysteria and Madness; The Other Side of Civilization: How Did We Create Madness?” (Dar al-Kutub, 2026), by Egyptian writer Yasser Thabet. ## Diseases of Happiness The author relies on engaging the reader in reviewing a group of books, most of which have recently been translated into Arabic, to discuss a complex and unsystematic history of the mind, its dreams, ambitions, and diseases, and reviews the most important of what these books have presented. Books, to say that the amount of doubt and uncertainty is great, compared to what people believe they have achieved in terms of achievements in several areas related to individual and social well-being today. The author begins with one of the most important contemporary questions, which is the exploration of happiness, which has become closer to myths than to reality after modernity’s estrangement from its fundamental center, which is the human being, and its tendency toward the market and technological and material progress, and the change in its goals related to well-being, freedoms, and focus on self-development, to a revolution against the goals of humanity itself, according to the book “Diseases of Happiness,” by the French researcher Hugues Lagrange, whose vision is a key to understanding the failure to acknowledge that our era is shirking its problems and diseases. The book follows Lagrange's statement, who believes that this disavowal began in the West, meaning that the transformations in European culture, economics, and science since the eighteenth century are the basis of the problems that accompanied the journey of modern man in his search for happiness and psychological comfort, and made him vulnerable to diseases and dilemmas represented by the devastation that anxiety, tension, and instability produce in the life of the individual and society.