Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (41 page)

Peter, Apostle,
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,
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Philosophical Counseling,
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Philosophy as a Way of Life
(Hadot),
236

physicalism,
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72

Pilgrim’s Regress
(Lewis),
246

Pinker, Steven,
193

Plantinga, Alvin,
22
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82
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189
,
215

Plato,
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77
,
114
,
215

Plato, Not Prozac!
(Lou),
235

“Plunder the Egyptians,”
90

political correctness,
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120
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23
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206
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7

polytheism,
36
,
67
,
68

Popper, Karl,
79

The Postmodern Condition
(Lyotard),
203

postmodern theology,
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postmodernism

artistic expressions of,
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Christian response to,
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coercive consequences,
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death of God and,
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“death of the author,”
201

diversity,
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7

dualism of,
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72

evolution and,
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208

historical development of,
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20

idol of community,
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,
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imperialistic,
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7

individuality, denial of,
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,
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2

language games,
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200

political correctness and,
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23
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7

“prison house of language,”
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reductionism and,
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,
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science, view of,
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self, dissolution of,
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as self-contradictory,
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self-referential absurdity of,
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theology, postmodern,
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267
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totalitarianism, as response to,
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4

Trinity, as answer to,
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12

truth as a social construction,
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24
,
168
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169

Powlison, David,
37

predestination,
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46

“prison house of language,”
199
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200
,
268

process theology,
267

Provine, William,
246

Pythagoras,
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R

Randall, John Herman,
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,
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rationalism

Christian response to,
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cubism as expression of,
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Descartes and,
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history of,
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as idol (of reason),
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Rauschenberg, Robert,
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Reach Records,
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,
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reasoned, (
dialegomai
) Greek word for,
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reciprocal altruism,
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reductionism

behavioral effect of,
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Chesterton on,
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Darwinian evolution as source of,
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definition of,
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dehumanizing impact of,
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idolatry as source of
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illusory status given to mind, will, self, consciousness,
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Islam and,
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materialism and,
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146
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Nagel on,
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“nothing but,”
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pantheism and,
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political correctness as consequence,
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postmodernism and,
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20
,
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self-referential absurdity as consequence,
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as suppression of evidence from general revelation,
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Tallis on,
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Reid, Thomas,
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relativists and relativism,
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religion

atheist forms of,
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amoral forms of,
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Eastern religions,
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generic meaning of,
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ritualless forms of,
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secular forms of,
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Religion for Atheists
(de Botton),
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repentance (
metanoia
), Greek word for,
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reverse engineering,
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Rifkin, Jeremy,
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robots, humans reduced to,
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Roman gods,
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Romantics and Romanticism,
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Rorty, Richard,
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Rothko, Mark,
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Ruse, Michael,
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Russell, Bertrand,
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S

sacred/secular divide,
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Sagan, Carl,
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Sartre, Jean-Paul,
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,
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,
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Saving Leonardo
(Pearcey),
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Schaeffer, Edith,
247

Schaeffer, Francis,
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The God Who Is There
,
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L’Abri ministry,
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love as the “final apologetic,”
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mysticism with nobody there,
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Schopenhauer, Arthur,
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Schweder, Richard,
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science, Christian origin of,
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scientism,
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Scripture, as communication from God,
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Searle, John,
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secular mysticism,
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secular religion,
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self or sense of personal identity,
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self-organization theory,
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self-referential absurdity (“commits suicide”)

Christianity and,
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definition of,
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evolutionary epistemology and,
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evolution,
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Freudianism and,
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idols and,
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Marxism and,
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materialism and,
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Nietzsche and,
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