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SECULARISM - Coggle Diagram
SECULARISM
NOT part of Americas Founding Fathers ideals
Declaration of Independence- "All men are endowed by their CREATOR with certain inalienable rights".
Samuel Adams- "Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots unite...in instructing citizens in the art of self government".
John Adams-"Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".
results
man's ability to fix himself (instrumental reason)
no need for
guidance to end result (teleological order)
God's authority (theological order)
selfish society (pervasive individualism)
used different ways by different people
used by Militant Atheist Fundamentalists
where STATE is the ONLY authority over
Life
making a world without God
Government
Education
this all leads to
late modernity culturally, belief in God is not a viable worldview
modern age
culture made it possible not to believe in God
pre-modern age culturally, no intellectual alternative to belief in God
THE ROAD TO DESTRUCTION >