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Marxism
A well-developed atheistic worldview is that of
Marxism/Leninism. Marxism sees religion and God as manmade institutions
invented to ease emotional pain and explain life and death.
Karl Marx
called religion the...
"opiate of the
masses,"
in that it deadened the desire
for social change in the present with a hope of heaven.
Many Christian groups have
combined their Christianity with Marxism, sometimes referred to as the
"Christian Left." The World Council of Churches has been described as "an
instrument of Soviet policy since 1966." In America, the Maryknoll priests, the
liberation theologians, Episcopal and Methodist groups and Jesuits have been
active on the side of communist insurrection. [David A. Noebel,
Understanding the Times, 1991.]
A Marxist cultural revolution is
taking place today in American universities where Marxism is alive and well.
U.S. News and World Report reported that there are ten thousand Marxist
professors on America's campuses. Georgie Anne Geyer says that "the percentage
of Marxist faculty numbers can range from an estimated 90 percent in some
midwestern universities." ["Marxism Thrives on Campus," The
Denver Post, Aug. 29, 1989]
The field of American history
has come to be dominated by Marxists and feminists according to Dr. Arnold
Beichman and Professor John P. Diggens. [Accuracy in
Academia Campus Report, July/August 1987] Self-declared Marxist
historians, Eugene Genovese and William A. Williams were elected president of
the Organization of American Historians in successive elections, and Louis
Kampf, a radical with Marxist predilections, was elected president of the
Modern Language Association. [Herbert London, "Marxism Thriving
on American Cmpuses," The World and I, January
1987]
Time magazine's Man of the Decade for the 1980s,
Mikhail Gorbachev, remains a staunch Marxist/Leninist: "The works of Lenin, and
his ideals of socialism remain for us an inexhaustible source of dialectical
creative thought, theoretical wealth and political sacacity," Gorbechev said.
[Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country
and the World, 1987] "Those in the West who expect us to give up
socialism will be disappointed.... I ... hold a firm trust in socialist
democracy and socialist humanism." ["In His Words," U.S.
News and World Report, Nov. 9, 1987.]
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The Major
World Views
Agnosticism
Holds that truth is "unknowable."
Rationalism
Sees all of nature as rational and the making of proper
deductions is essential to achieving knowledge.
Pragmatism
Is
more concerned with what 'works' than with what's true.
Monism
Everything is an undifferentiated oneness or
unity.
Henotheism
One supreme god, not necessarily to the exclusion of
other lesser gods.
Liberalism/Modernism
We must rethink and adapt our concept of God and truth
to fit with modern culture and modes of thinking.
Pantheism/Naturalism
Everything is god.
Polytheism
There are many gods.
Atheism
There is no God.
Monotheism
There is only one God.
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Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:
“Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as
I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found
an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as
something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
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17:22-23] |
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