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• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

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  Reality, Rights, Numbers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

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  Christian, Moral, Wonder

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• Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

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  Christian, Culture, Degradation

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• We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.

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  Block, Intellectual, Principles

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• Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

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  Classroom, Monopoly, Worldview

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• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

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  Struggle, Blessing, America

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• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

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  America, Political, Information

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

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  Fall, Giving, Leaving

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• When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

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  Reality, People, Giving

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.63, David C Cook

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• In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

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  Religious, Odds, Historical

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• Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

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  Views, Robots, Humbleness

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.142, David C Cook

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• In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

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  Church, Messages, Said

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• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

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  Character, America, Islam

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• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

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  Giving, Doubt, Myopic

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• I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

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  Challenges, Doe, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

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  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  'Obama's "Christian Label' and the War against Nativity Scenes" by Nancy Pearcey, www.discovery.org. December 24, 2010.

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• The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

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  Philosophy, Data, Tests

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• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

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  Suicide, Intellectual, Want

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• An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

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  Reality, Self, Idols

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

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  Children, Skills, Giving

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• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

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  Children, Independent, Government

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• A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

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  Doe, Materialistic, Regimes

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• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

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  Support, Cost, Demand

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