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This is 1/2 true only. The author cherry picks his examples.
Yesterday’s article from the same sourcen was all about how Generation Z is amazingly secular, non religious, and atheist.
I think that’s correct.
The author also doesn’t name any real atheist p philosophers. In the recent past we had “the four horseman of the new atheism” - Dawkins. Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and the late Christopher Hitchrns.
They all explicitly reject and oppose roll- your-own mysticism.
Where there are no external Gods, one finds and experiences the true God within themselves.
John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
Luke 24:32
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
John 14:
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Luke 17:
20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, 21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”
I so pray that people understand these scriptures. You can only find and experience Jesus and God by searching WITHIN YOU.
I’ve noticed a surge in occult books and Facebook forums. I hangout on the angel forums. I find occultists to be much more spiritual with deeper faith than those who congregate. Lots of mental health issues that I now believe to be spiritually based. Like many of us, they’re noticing unusual sudden deaths in society. For a group that supposedly has many “seers,” some seemed alarmed they didn’t see it coming. And right around the same time, I noticed prominent people on an occult forum go back to their Catholic faith. Many, many posts about the Virgin Mary popping up in forums that were originally created by occultists. I find it amusing. (And no, they’re not try to pervert her. Nothing but respect for Our Lady.) Just some observations, but it feels like a great change is coming.
Materialism rejects free-will, self-awareness as evidence of a self, right and wrong thoughts and behaviors, meaning, purpose, beauty, and love. People claim materialism, but hardly ever practice it. Perhaps a few psychopaths, with no conception of right and wrong, may actually live up to the materialist label.
Scientific reasoning is reasoning with a reliance on hypothesis testing.
“Scientific materialism” is a marketing term. It’s materialism (philosophy) claiming the prestige of science. Scientific materialism is taught to all, including those in the sciences.
There are two extremes that are easy to articulate but not credible. One is that every event is purposeful. The other is that no event is purposeful.
I think he’s describing hopes rather than beliefs
Gnosticism is big in the world today. Small groups of elite people have special, advanced knowledge which allows them to realize that evils that defy the natural law, sodomy, abortion, etc, are actually advanced, superior, “progressive” ways of life. Gnosticism is shaking the Catholic Church with Francis allowing blessings on sodomy and Holy Communion for adulterers.
Very interesting beliefs info on those scientists and philosophers. I’m amazed.