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I appreciate this commentary on Postmodernism, and the analogy of the house with two levels was very helpful. I'm not certain if Postmodernism is all that new. I recall Pilate asking Jesus, "And what is truth?" I presume that he was making a statement that truth is neither absolute nor knowable. For Pilate, truth is whatever Rome says it is.

In a sense, we have returned to this idea. Where the founding fathers believed in God (Deism) and moral absolutes or virtues, the current climate has rejected any idea of natural law or what Schaeffer calls universal laws. Basically, we live in a world in which the courts or judges determine what is true and moral. It's true because the courts say it is true. Sometimes it is strictly the opinion of a single judge that issues a ruling on nothing more than how he felt that day.

appreciate this commentary on Postmodernism, and the analogy of the house with two levels was very helpful. I'm not certain if Postmodernism is all that new. I recall Pilate asking Jesus, "And what is truth?" I presume that he was making a statement that truth is neither absolute nor knowable. For Pilate, truth is whatever Rome says it is.

That is because postmodernism is just a new word for paganism. If man is no longer sure about God, then he can be sure of nothing that is not measurable with a tool of some sort. Of course the previous poster tells us even the physical sciences are succumbing to nominalism - the philsophy that says nothing we percieve is real - a decent from Decrates statment "I think therefore I am".