Not quite three weeks ago we posted Socialism vs. Capitalism. It’s a hot topic, not to mention important, and the post has garnered lots of hits. So we are advancing the release of the video version in an effort to harness this interest and push the message out even further.
A new fascism is on the rise in the West. A pluralistic framework will not create a pluralistic social and political order. As we have written before, social and political pluralism rests on the nonpluralistic foundation of Judeo-Christian Theism. In other words, because of Judeo-Christian influence, people are free to
We are living in a time when the implications of the worldview shift from modernism to postmodernism are becoming evident in daily life. What are the ideological roots driving postmodernism? Judeo-Christian Theism replaced ancient pagan ideologies and led to the rise of Western civilization. This was the premodern era; people
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has become famous. Seventeen students and adults were killed by a crazed gunman using a semi-automatic weapon. This was not the first such horror, nor will it be the last, because we are failing to address the core problem. Modern school-shooting
There can be no doubt that race relations in America have deteriorated in recent years. I’ve reflected deeply on what has led to this tragic situation, and the answer I’ve come to is worldview. The basic worldview assumptions that animated the Civil Rights movement—assumptions that led to incredibly positive changes,
Darwin is dead, and so is Darwinism. One little organism demonstrates it. Charles Darwin thought that all of life descended from a common origin through a process of “natural selection,” aka survival of the fittest. In 1856 Darwin wrote to his friend Asa Gray that there were only two possibilities
Last week, Everett Piper wrote a prophetic piece in the Washington Times on the current flood of sexual assault allegations making headlines daily. His comment about what’s behind this torrent hits the nail on the head. Ideas always have consequences and lecherous behavior will always be the inevitable consequence of
Almost everyone knows Karl Marx. Very few have heard of Antonio Gramsci—including me until about two years ago. Even as a student of intellectual history in college, I was unaware of Gramsci or his theories. Yet, even more than Marx, Gramsci’s ideas have shaped the West by laying the ideological
In the previous post I suggested that the most influential “prophets” whose creative thinking gave birth to the toxic new religion—were Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci. Both were products of Western culture, so to speak, but were solidly in the atheistic stream. Their ideological forebears included the continental philosophers Rene
Mike and Karen Pence, photo by Gage Skidmore “To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their conscience are defiled,” Titus 1:15 ESV. The polluted conscience of an unbelieving mind defiles even what is innocent and pure.
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