Christian Worldviews

Competing worldviews are breaking out everywhere especially throughout North America. Two sides with vastly differing and incompatible worldviews are being locked in a bitter conflict that permeates every level of society. On one side of the battle is the Christian worldview, and on the other is the Humanist worldview divided into three branches: Secular Humanism, Marxism/Leninism, and Cosmic Humanism. It’s in this essay that we will seek to understand all of the three Humanist worldviews while presenting a strong, honest, truthful, intelligent defense of Biblical Christianity. As believers in and followers of Jesus Christ, we need to consider how our commitment to Him affects not just our political and ethical convictions, but also the way
As defined in Oxford Dictionary, philosophy is “the study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence”. It’s considered to be the other level of foundation upon which each worldview is based. To start with, Secular Humanism as Roy Wood Sellars writes, “Is naturalistic and rejects the supernaturalistic stance with its postulated Creator-God and cosmic Ruler”. Naturalists deny everything that isn’t made up of matter and doesn’t exist in nature. However, Humanists aren’t just naturalists, but they also list a variety of philosophical positions that fit their worldview, such as: materialism, organicism and other theories based upon science. Moreover, epistemology which is a part of philosophy, refers to one’s theory of knowledge through basically answering the question of, “How much can one know about reality, and how does one obtain this knowledge?” Naturalistic Humanism answers that everything in the physical world is knowable, and science is the proper means of knowing it. Likewise, Marxism/Leninism epistemology professes faith in science and just as much faith that all religious claims are untrue. V.I. Lenin writes, “The philosophical basis of Marxism, as Marx and Engels repeatedly declared, is dialectical materialism… a materialism which absolutely atheistic and positively hostile to all religion”. In other words, what you see of nature is all there is, and because nature appears to be made up of matter of some sort, that is all there is to the real world. Lenin also wrote “Matter is primary nature. Sensation, thought, consciousness, are the highest products of matter organized in a certain way”. On the other hand, even though Cosmic Humanism is a branch of Humanism, it’s clearly different from Secular Humanism as well as Marxism/Leninism. Cosmic Humanism rejects naturalistic and materialistic philosophies because such explanations ignore the all-pervasive supernatural. Thus, the Cosmic Humanist arrives at