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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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