Worldviews Shaping Culture: Can You Name America’s Top 3?

What is the world view? This is everything you believe in the truth, it is really important in life. Ronald Nash defines this in his book "Conflict Worldview".

The world view is a set of prerequisites (or assumptions) about the basic composition of our (consciously or potentially) our world.

J. P. Moreland acknowledges that our culture has three major world views that dominate our discussion today. This is the summary of the top 3 in the US.

This is the main version of moral monotheism. This is the true idea of ​​God, God created us and gave us true moral law. Everyone in the world is obliged to comply with ethical law. Some things like parents who love you are truly amazing. Other things such as hurting a little girl without a reason are wrong.

What is this? Please think about X-Men. Even if it looks like something (like considering bending the metal), absolutely everything can be attributed to a physical process (like a genetic mutation). This view thinks that only the real world is real. You are almost your brain. All you do is merely a genetic factor, how you are growing up.

Another important idea: Science is the only way we understand things. I can not know it unless I can measure something in the laboratory or use science to prove it. Therefore, you can say that Advil knows that it helps solve headache. But you can not say that you actually know that God exists.

About this, think about Oprah. All truth and reality are related to you or your community. "This is for you, not for me." In this case, it will be a feeling of a good, politically correct world view. No one will make a mistake - especially as it relates to spiritual things (unless Christianity thinks the truth is true)

Another important idea is that words do not mean anything. You decide what words mean to you what you mean. For example, it does not matter whether this article is related to the world view. Perhaps for you this article means to give the iPad to everyone I share this post on Facebook! I am different.

I agree that these two viewers of the world can not understand what you can not see, touch, taste, hear, or smell. This challenges historical Christianity directly. And it tells us to know the truth (John 8:32). "We are fighting scientific naturalism and postmodern relativism for the hearts and minds of Americans, our religion is a knowledge-based religion."

So you have it. Three world views that shape American culture: Christianity, naturalism, and postmodern. Which best shapes your viewpoint?

A worldview Each of us has a unique combination of how we look at various aspects of life. When all these are added, it becomes a very specific world view. For example, it depends on our family, our culture, our experience. Before we impose our own view of the world on them, we will first understand others' worldview! One of the most insightful books I have read about this topic is the custom of the world. Wherever you are, please use cultural intelligence to adapt. I will go to another continent. Wherever you go, there are grocery stores, houses and bathrooms. No matter where we are, we are all people with the same basic needs. There is no culture more special than other cultures. Just being different. A group is never better than another group. Just being different. By communicating with as many different cultures and people as possible, your cultural and emotional intelligence will increase and your life will be shining more.

The world view is a cultural phenomenon. Although the world view may occur in various cultures, at the most basic level, it is decided by casting the deepest doubt. Where did we come from? What is our objective? Where are you going? All of these problems are the foundation of our personal and collective meanings. Therefore, they are all spiritual traditions from the beginning and questions raised by our species. Even the first cave painting shows that as long as we are humans, we begin to ask such questions.