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[Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPostmodernism\u201d is the ascendant philosophy. To mention postmodernism <\/em>implies its antecedent, modernism<\/em>. Modernism <\/em>attempts to explain all things by nature. It arose in 19th-century Germany, about the time Darwin published his God-denying theories. Its blood-brother is secular humanism.<\/span><\/p>\n Modernists deny Biblical miracles (no \u201cnatural\u201d explanation) and the need for revelation (one can discover all the truth he needs through reason). Modernism has dominated the major US theological schools and denominations for more than a century, destroying the Biblical faith of multiplied millions.<\/span><\/p>\n Modernism treats all religion as superstition and seeks to \u201cfree\u201d men from such \u201chang-ups.\u201d Postmodernism freely accepts any and all religions\u2014as long as none make exclusive or universal truth-claims. This philosophy screams pluralism<\/em>, giving all religious\/ethical systems \u201cmoral equivalence.\u201d Thus two propositions may be diametrically contradictory but both be \u201ctruth”\u2014so long as neither claims his position alone <\/strong>is right and all others are wrong (never mind that \u201cDr. Postmodernist\u201d makes this very exclusive and universal claim for his <\/strong>position!).<\/span><\/p>\n Ironically, the seeds of postmodernism were in the soil of religion even before <\/strong>modernism. Some very old religious slogans well illustrate this suggestion, among them the following:<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, July 16, 2010].<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 1[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] \u201cPostmodernism\u201d is the ascendant philosophy. To mention postmodernism implies its antecedent, modernism. Modernism attempts to explain all things by nature. It arose in 19th-century Germany, about the time Darwin published…<\/p>\n\n