I once knew a US Military combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. He was a believer, a bit gruff, a faithful husband, a good father and grandfather, and a bit racist against Asians. Think of Clint Eastwood’s character from Gran Torino. This man had become hardened and calloused from his many personal experiences. […]
The Gillette Ad separates men from boys
The self-appointed last line of defense in the “war on boys” has never looked so fragile, after this Gillette ad about acceptable male behavior has triggered high-pitched shrieks of horror from the guardians of manhood. A few have caught themselves in mid-alto shriek and quickly shifted to grunting to compensate. A great push-back piece from […]
In defense of an unsafe justice
In a rather silly display, I’ve seen many “anti-social-justice-warriors” make statements effectively decrying the use of extra-Biblical adjectives. Proclamations along the lines of “we don’t need social-justice because we have justice!” and “the Bible doesn’t qualify justice” are all over blogs and social media. Not only is this bold anti-adjective stance nonsensical, but it is […]
Jihad, war, and the superman: fallout of humanism (part 2)
It would be bad enough if fallacious worldviews stopped merely at theory, but they develop into others areas of covenant and covenant community as well. They affect every area of life, logically, and when followed, practically as well. We have already seen how the foundations of the humanistic / naturalistic worldview are viciously circular, self-contradictory, […]
Fallout of Humanism: relativism and meaninglessness
In the first part of this series, we covered the foundational worldview fallacy of humanism, or naturalism. We saw its inability to escape its own inner contradictions. In this part, we cover points two and three of covenantal thinking: representation and law. Here we will cover the logical fallout of human autonomy in these terms: […]
The Worldview Fallacies of Humanism and Human Autonomy
Worldview fallacies occur when people make false assumptions at the level of ultimate issues. In order to account for and justify all of human experience, we must acknowledge a self-authorizing, self-revealing, self-consistent Creator-God who Himself subsumes both unity and diversity within His own self-order. Human experience involves all of these characteristics, and yet no part […]