Out of Body, Out of Mind

Locked In An Empty Room

World views matter.  Ultimately, when world views become shared and part of the common culture, they shape society powerfully.  The consequences eventually reflect the fundamental principles and application of the dominant world view to life itself: its mores, its laws, its practices, and its produce.

The Christian world view, grounded upon the Living God and His Son, shaped Western civilisation for over a thousand years.  It produced many benefits and fruits which are taken for granted in the West.  Now, however, the West has been moving deliberately to cut the birth cord.  It wants to retain the fruits of Western civilization, without its Christian foundation.  However, without the Christian centre, the periphery cannot hold.

Vishal Mangalwadi has written a book on how the Bible created the soul and body of Western civilization.  In it he argues that the dominant world view of his home country, India is largely responsible for the historical backwardness of India.

An Ancient Greek Myth

A Real-Life Indiana Jones Movie

Many of the ancient Greek philosophers were animists.  The basic idea is that the rock is "alive".  Or, to flip it around, when one is confronted with life, we really have a peculiar arrangement of dead matter.  So, take the thrush songbird and its beautiful morning chorus.  Clearly the thrush is quickened with life itself (whatever that might be), but the ancient Greek animist said, not really.  It is just inanimate matter in a peculiar configuration.  

This idea rules amongst the materialistic scientists (who control the Academy in our generation).  To account for life out of dead, inanimate, and impersonal matter the Academy coined a fancy word--which the credulous found a compelling argument in and by itself.  That word was "abiogenesis".  The theory of the origins of life represented by that word was:  a) that the earliest life forms on earth developed from non-living matter; and, b) living organisms arose spontaneously from inanimate matter, by spontaneous generation.  Abiogenesis is now thoroughly debunked, except for the invincibly ignorant animists.

No matter how many verbal smoke screens are puffed out, stupid is as stupid does.  And secularist science is pretty stupid at this point.