Worldviews

First, SOA may be inevitable. And the battle may be between Java and .NET. I suspect when the dust settles it'll be some kind of patched-together hybrid between the two. But it won't stop there because, if my thesis is correct, it can't stop there ... the addiction will insist upon more.

Ever look behind the counter at a McDonalds? They use dumb-terminal technology. That's telling to me. :-)

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I was reading a blog about Narnia, and how to talk to someone unfamiliar with Christianity who has seen Narnia and wonders what the fuss is about. One paragraph out of many said this:

One of the toughest challenges Christians face today when talking about our faith is that so many people do not share our basic worldview. They do not believe in a creator, or in a personal creator, at any rate. Or they do not believe in a strict dichotomy between good and evil. Or they do not believe that there is such a thing as sin. Many people are not prepared to receive the Christian gospel as good news because they simply don't accept the presuppositions (good creation; reality of sin; holiness of God; etc.).

I think this particular author has burdened his main point with too much ... the issue is far, far more fundamental than this. You and I have gone back and forth on this many times. The fundamental difficulty in this age in trying to convince anyone of the merits of Christianity is this:

Few believe there is a singular, ultimate truth

And with that worldview then, by definition, any religion that claims to be "the one true religion" is immediately discounted. Religions that hold as one of their central tenets the absence of any real truth -- new age stuff does this -- fit nicely with this worldview.

If a person holds that no singular, ultimate truth exists, there is no possible way to convince them otherwise. They may come around to believing in a singular truth, but the process will not be due to some logically constructed argument. Logic requires a belief in a guiding set of truths, and I'm not speaking of religious truths here. If at each step in a logical construction the listener leans back on a worldview where "there is no truth," or "all things are relative," then they will naturally resist concluding anything. How is it possible to conclude anything when there is no truth?

Such is the morass we have gotten ourselves into.

Satan must be smiling. It truly is his most clever and dastardly invention to date.