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To: Mind-numbed Robot; djf; Alamo-Girl; TXnMA; Texas Songwriter; Matchett-PI; xzins; YHAOS; metmom; ...
Competing world views become so engrained, so personal, that the destruction of a world view destroys the essence of those who hold it. It threatens their very existence. Hegel and his Dialectical Materialism, on which Marx and Engels based their philosophy, must reject Christianity in order to be true. So does Islam. So does scientism. So does atheism. To those who hold those views they are central to their lives.

Oh so very true, dear Mind-numbed Robot!

The one commonality behind all these worldviews is that they make "man the measure" of reality. Thus all are, in a sense, unreal. For finite man cannot be the measure of that of which he is "merely" a very part-time part and participant. In fact, the great German-American philosopher Eric Voegelin has convincingly (to me) argued that all such worldviews are actually examples of alienation from the universal order of the world. They betoken a resistance on the part of man to acceptance of the human condition as it actually is; rather they are projections of their adherent's desires and need for relief from acute existential anxiety....

You suggested that "only those ideas based on the principles explained in the Bible" actually work out in actual reality. You added, "I am not saying that all successful societies were based on the Bible but rather on the principles expressed in the Bible." Truly I agree with you here. On this point, we are not talking about "religion" at all. We are talking about the fundamental structure of reality, of what "works" and "doesn't work" in the universal order — physical and moral — that God made, Alpha to Omega. The Holy Scriptures are God's truthful (but not exhaustive) revelation to us of the order of the world He created. As such, they are preeminent to, and stand quite independently of religious dogmas of all descriptions.

I'll go even further and say that all the doctrines (worldviews) you mention are falsifications of Reality. And being that, they cannot work.

But a man like Richard Dawkins cannot grasp this point — for in his fulminating hatred of God and religion, he prohibits himself from even "going there." He prefers to be "a god" unto himself....

He is a fine example of Heraclitus' "dreamer," who rejects the Logos that is "one and common to all," withdrawing into into his own "private world" as if a man asleep, dreaming his dreams which are "no reality" at all.

Thank you so very much, dear MNR, for your most eloquent and insightful essay/post!

59 posted on 09/25/2011 12:20:43 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop
I'll go even further and say that all the doctrines (worldviews) you mention are falsifications of Reality. And being that, they cannot work.

I agree! Sooner or later reality asserts itself.

As I said, or intended to, it is so easy to just accept reality and live by it. It makes life so simple and rewarding. Yet, for a variety of reasons, usually centered on egotistical fear, many reject it.

For the record, I consider reality to be God's creation in all its forms. That includes everything. His is an ever-present energy that eternally supports, and invites our participation in, His plan. God is the Verb of the Universe. What we see are the Nouns.

61 posted on 09/25/2011 1:51:31 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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