Worldviews Secular Humanism

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WorldviewsSecular Humanism

• Berea PCA Church
• Fall 2007
• kvworley_at_msn.com

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Only 12 of evangelicals know what worldview is,
and only 4 said they needed to know anything
about it.
Remember!!
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Expressions of Naturalism

• Secular Humanism We are the world, man is
  exalted (optimistic), faith in science progress
  (Modernism).
• Marxism mans problem is economic, continuing
  revolution to exalt the oppressed man leading to
  utopia (optimistic).
• Nihilism Life is meaningless (pessimistic),
  leading to suicide, destruction, power politics,
  whimsy.
• Existentialism Life is meaningless
  (pessimistic), but make your own meaning, mans
  existence precedes his essence, make choices.
• Post-Modernism Truth is fiction.
  Interpretation is the ultimate reality.

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Outline

• How Should We Then Live? (video)
• Francis Schaeffer shows influence of worldview
  on progression of Western Civilization The
  Scientific Age
• Presentation of alternative worldviews
• Secular Humanism