Continuing from the previous post, here are more words whose meanings have been deconstructed.
EDUCATION – The University is viewed as a place to be empowered to obtain wealth and its capacity to control other people. The educated, especially the highly educated in the fields of philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology are seen as those endued with power to influence and control.… Read more
Unfortunately, deconstruction did not stay confined to the confines of literature where it was conceived. The driving force of the mindset has taken over all areas of Western culture. Philosopher Roger Scruton speaks of “the culture of repudiation becoming the official culture of the post-modern university” and I would say it is the official culture of Western youth, who will be Western adults in a few short years.… Read more
Three centuries of human progress turned out not to be human progress after all. Man had more machines and tools and information but man also had more wars, dictators, and poverty. The promised utopia did not come and people became disillusioned with science and human reason as they really did not solve all of man’s problems.… Read more
The natural man believes his own reason can discover truth and does not need a God to reveal truth. Moreover, like the rich man who does not need God to supply his physical needs, he soon concludes he does not need God at all.… Read more
I am writing from a biblical worldview and seeing contemporary culture from that perspective. I inherited my worldview from my father, and he from his, and it was basically the same worldview I encountered when I was old enough to leave home and go to elementary school and then on to high school.… Read more
In moving from biblical to 21st Century culture it may be good to get the view of those scientists who study the way human beings live, the anthropologists. Broadly speaking, culture is the full range of patterns of human behavior.… Read more
The Hebrew culture is unique in world history because of its origin and because of its endurance. When a people of one culture lose their homeland and become immigrants in other countries their culture only survives from four to five generations before it is absorbed into the host culture and loses its uniqueness.… Read more
We live in our culture. The language we speak, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are culturally determined. The things we pursue and the things that pursue us are in our culture. We are going to look at culture from several standpoints beginning with the biblical view of culture.… Read more
