Mitchell Claimed That Her Materialist View Leads

I Began Asking, 'how Can We Know Christianity Is True?' Sadly, None Of The Adults In My Life Offered An Answer. Eventually I Decided Christianity Must Not Have Any Answers, And I Became An Agnostic.

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.

To Be Intellectual Does Not Require One To Be Alienated And Oppositional.

A Worldview Is Not The Same Things A Formal Philosophy, Otherwise It Would Only Be For Philosophers. Even Ordinary People Have A Set Of Convictions About How Reality Functions And How They Should Live. Some Convictions Are Conscious While Others Are Unconscious But Together They Form A Consistent Picture Of Reality.

We Need To Understand Enough Of Modern Thought To Identify The Ways It Blocks Us From Living Out The Gospel The Way God Intends, Both In Terms Of Intellectual Roadblocks And In Terms Of Economic And Structural Changes That Make It Harder To Live By Scriptural Principles.