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Responding to secularism (1), NEW SECULARISM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The government should not run the church...okay...
        
        BUT secularism has changed in meaning in the western world.
        
        It means WITHOUT GOD
        
        Government without God. Education without God.
        Life WITHOUT God!
        
        This leads to DISASTER
        
        Rightousness exults a nation but sin is a reproach to any people Prov. 14:34
        
        This is the state telling the church what to do...what our moral are...
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    - - The issue of freedom and religion were inextricably linked.
        
        written into the constitution
        
        people were created with unalienable rights by the creator
        
        Purpose of government was not to BESTOW rights but to PROTECT the already God given rights.
        
        And so..
        
        A moral people is required. Moral enough to police themselves.
        
        Liberty comes with moral DEMANDS and BOUNDRIES
        
        "nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure, nothing more bondage than too much liberty." George Washington
        
        Enemy of freedom?
        
        Absolute and unrestrained freedom!
        
        belief in God is essential to moral order and happiness of man
        
        Science, liberty and religion have an inseparable union
        
        Without their joint influence no society can be great flourish or happy
        
        A FREE society divoiced from religion COULD NOT work and would NOT survive
        
        Secular government okay :check: Secular Society not okay :red_cross:
- - - - "Modern freedom was won by our breaking loose from older moral horizons,"
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        modernity. In the modern age, it became possible not to believe. A secular alternative to Christian theism emerged as a real choice. One could now chose their worldview
        
        late modernity and our own intellectual epoch, it is now impossible to believe. That means, especially in terms of the intellectual elites and the culture-forming sectors of society, theism is not an available worldview—if not personally, then at least culturally.
        
        Why? lack of cognitive commitment to a self-existent, self-revealing God
        
        current hyper-secularized culture in America often consider themselves to be religious or spiritual.
        
        Secularization is about unbelief in a personal God, one who holds and exerts authority.
        
        secular age as deeply "cross-pressured" in its personal experience of religion and rejection of the personal authority of God.
        
        The current world (city) and our heavenly citizenship...
  - - - As Augustine reminded us roughly sixteen hundred years ago, Christians are simultaneously citizens of two cities: a heavenly city and an earthly city. The first is eternal, the other is passing. But, even as the earthly city is a mere vapor, it is also a city of God's good pleasure and divine compassion. As Christians, we must work for the good and flourishing of this earthly city, even as we work to see as many as possible also become citizens of the heavenly city through faith in Christ Jesus. Indeed, in the earthly city, all that is solid melts into thin air. But in the heavenly city, God's throne is unmoved and His kingdom is unshakable.