1 st. Post: Religious and Cultural Divides.

Worldviews or the way we see the world and the basic beliefs about the world are in conflict. The world is not necessarily divided by geographic boundaries but by religious and cultural traditions.

Will Durant in Ch 3 Worldviews in Conflict said, " From barbarism to civilization requires a century but from civilization to barbarism needs but one day."

WE all are religious creatures and our lives are defined by our ultimate beliefs more sharply than by any other factor. So the culture wars in the West are actually being orchestrated by great Belief Systems. This clash is more important than what is happening in Islam or Asia or the political scene. It is exactly what is dominating the whole globe at the present time.

The Information Age has transported across barriers of geography and national border the ideas of the West. Even Asian and Islamic societies have been flooded with Western books , movies, videos and culture. People around the world are wrestling with the same issues that are being thrown at the western societies in our day. These issues are not always good nor wanted but are flooding across the borders because of cellphones, computers and the Internet.

Read Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey, "HOW NOW SHALL WE LIVE? Marshall and Pickering, London

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No 26. Salvation through Sex

National Women's Hall of Fame Mary Steichen Calderone Mary Calderone sees the problem with the world is the human nature is not evolving as quickly as technology; therefore we must remould human nature itself to the modern, every changing world. She says that a new change is breaking across the Horizon and the task of Educators is to prepare children to step into this new world. To do this they must pry children away from old views and values especially from Biblical and other traditional forms of sexual morality for "religious laws and rules about sex were made on the basis of ignorance. " Family Book about Sexuality" Calderone and Johnston p. 171 Notes from Colson and Pearcey p.242 When we trace the history of ideas about sexuality, it becomes clear that the founders of sex education never did seek simply to transmit a collection of facts about how our bodies work. Rather, they were evangelists for the utopian worldview, a religion , in which a "sci...

No.23. Einstein and the Clergymen

"A God who did not abolish suffering - worse, a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering - is a scandal to the modern mind. " Peter Kreeft. C. Colson and N. Pearcey p.203 ranker.com He ate grasshoppers just to troll his friends The year was 1942, and the scene was the crowded front parlour of Albert Einstein's home, where the famous physicist had arranged a tea party for three clergymen: a young orthodox rabbi named Dov Hertzen, a middle-aged Catholic Priest named Brian McNaughton and a liberal Protestant Theologian named Mark Hartman. Albert Einstein's Out of my Latter years and The World as I see it. "Rabbi Hertzen here 'provoked' this little party," Einstein began, as soon as the men had sampled the tea and cookies. " He congratulated me on my open-mindedness when I dropped my belief in a static Universe. Not long ago, I observed Hubble's red-shifts for myself at Cal Tech." Einstein leaned back in his chair and ...

Post No.4 Christian Ethic and Moral Relativism

¡ Christian Ethics is the study of what ought to be , not what is. It describes normative behaviour, what we should do in a particular situation according to the Word of God . ¡ ”. Ethics comes from the Greek word meaning a stall for horses, a place of stability and permanence. ¡ “ morality ” comes from “mores” which describes the shifting patterns of behaviour in society. ¡ a Biblical worldview . (Seeing the World Through Biblical Eyes) ¡ Many do not act like Christians because they do not ‘think like Christians’. ¡ It is thinking according to the Bible. BioLogos by the Barna Group ¡ Behaviour comes from Values and beliefs. comes Thinking Biblically about the Issues of life’ ultimately result in our living Biblically within our society . ¡ As a Man Thinks in his heart so is he [so He will live]. Moral Relativism IN Morality, naturalism results in Moral relativism. If nature is all that there is, then there is no ...

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