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Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

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Nancy Pearcey
Age: 73
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Philosopher
Nancy Randolph Pearcey
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.
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When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.
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Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.
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In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.
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A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
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The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
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In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
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Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
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Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.
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Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
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Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
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For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
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