OUTLINE Personal Observations Specific Quotations Holy Scripture SECTION 3: CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS. While these ideologies have even antiquated predecessors amongst the Greek Philosophers - they have all increased dramatically in the last 150 some years.   A Hedonism: "The theory that pleasure is the only thing that is intrinsically good, pain the only thing intrinsically bad." Dynamic pleasures: are those that cause personal pain. Passive pleasures: are those that do not cause any personal pain.   B. Materialism: "1 belief that only the material world exists. 2 excessive concern with material possessions rather than spiritual or intellectual values." Oxford Am Dict  Democritus: "various process of animals and plants can be explained in physical and chemical terms. And there is no reason to suspect that this cannot ultimately be done with all biological questions."  Sociobiology: A ridiculous premise that our genetic code is more active in our personality, life choices and worldly prosperity than anyone ever imagined.  C. Existentialism: A philosophical movement concentrating attention on the human situation. Trapped in existence: Kierkegaard taught that the sincere existentialist must live with the anguish of being alive. Dreadful freedom: Nietzsche declared that each individual must seek his own values to provide a bridge to the future. Concerned with: Sarte crowned the existentialist dogma with the life object of authenticity.   D. The Ultimate Trip!  Dr Timothy Leary: "Death to the mind, that is the goal you must have. Nothing else will do."  ESCAPE FROM REASON ! Francis Schaeffer: "The basic reason that drugs are taken today is not for escape or kicks but because man is desperate. On the basis of rationality and logic man has no meaning, and culture has become meaningless." Escape From Reason.

Humanism   Humanism is the doctrine that man's obligations are limited to and dependent alone on man and human relations. Further, there are five basic teachings related to a contemporary understanding of humanism. A. Atheism. "Humanism believes in a naturalistic metaphysics or attitude toward the universe that considers all forms of the supernatural as myth, ..." -Lamont B. Evolution: "Biology has conclusively shown that man and all other forms of life were the result ... of an infinitely long process of evolution probably stretching over at least two billion years." -Lamont C. Amorality: "For Humanism no Human acts are good or bad in or of themselves. Whether an act is good or bad is to be judged by its consequences for the individual and society." -Lamont. D. Autonomous Man: "Humanism is the viewpoint that men have but one life to lead and should make the most of it in terms of work and happiness;" E. Socialist One-World View: "A Socialized and cooperative economic order must be established to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible. ...Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world." Humanist Manifesto I God is Dead? Nietzsche Nietzsche is Dead! God

This Section is deep and simplification can only accomplish so much. For a better in depth understanding of the themes and concepts outlined here, please consider Francis Schaeffer's book Escape from Reason. I came across this work only after I had graduated from college and seminary, that was when my real education began!

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