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Lesson 16

The Rise of Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secular Ideologies

Christians must life according to their beliefs and not as practical atheists presuming upon God’s mercy.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Agnosticism
    :
    (n.): The view that we do not know whether God exists. From the Greek prefix “a-” meaning “without” or “absence of” and gnosis, meaning “knowledge.”
  • Atheism
    :
    (n.): The belief that God does not exist.
  • Scientism
    :
    (n.): An ideology that denies the existence of anything beyond the five senses, and holds that true knowledge can only come through the empirical sciences.
  • Ideology
    :
    (n.): A belief system that purports to be all-encompassing and is not open to approaches or positions coming from outside itself.
  • Moral Nihilism
    :
    (n.): An existentialist philisophy that life is without any objective meaning, and that morality is merely a human invention.
  • Practical Atheism
    :
    (n.): A type of existence characterized by living as if there were no God. Believers can fall into this lifestyle if we do not guard against habits of materialism and acedia.
  • Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
    :
    (n.): The name for an immature faith that understands God as a type of therapist who leaves us alone except when we ask him to help solve our problems, wants us to be nice and fair to each other, and sends good people to Heaven.
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