What is the Christian "Worldview"



This term "worldview" is used a lot, mostly I think by Christians. Maybe I'm not understanding it right but it seems to be that a Christian "worldview" is that faith is the sole source of order and high morals. The non Christian worldview is one without order or high moral grounding. That is, the Christian view is correct, the non Christian incorrect.

Anyone with even a scintilla of sense knows organizing society and establishing rule so behavior that serve the greater good comes from human experience and human reasoning. The God of the Bible killed a couple of million innocent people, if we are to take literally the god's deeds. Lofty moral values is not what the Bible is about.

For whatever complex reasons, the public is turning away from what Christians call the Christian worldview. A series of polls in recent years finds smaller percentages each time. A recent poll by the Christian Barna Group ask 51 questions of respondents to gauge the level of their Christian worldview. It was found to be 16% among charismatics/Pentecostals, 8% Protestants and 1% Catholics. The overall level is 6%, down from 12% a few years ago.

I looked at another source to find the issues that differentiate those of the Christian worldview from the worldview of others. They differ on issues including cohabitation, drunkedness, gay sex, profanity, adultery, pornography, abortion and placing bets. These seem to focus on sin. The more tolerant of sin the more improper the worldview from a conservative Christian perspective.

While the conservative preachers commenting on this survey said they must unite to turn the tide back to the Christian worldview, it seems to me the ship has left the dock and will sail onward.

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  1. tsmMarch 31, 2020 at 6:08 PM

    more nonsense. worldview is a commonly used term for any commonly held set of beliefs. something akin to what the post modernists would call a metanarrative. or an ideology. it has nothing to do with Christian principles per se. it merely says the Christians have a such and such take on the world. the Nazis had a worldview, the Stalinists had a worldview. the Democratic party has a worldview. and so on.

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  2. Matt NoahApril 1, 2020 at 2:06 PM

    More news on Catholic sex abuse - https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/01/survey-female-students-around-the-country-claim-to-have-been-sexually-assaulted-by-professors/

    No, it was college professors, those who claim morals superior to all else on earth because of their Ph.D. or professorship.

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  3. tsmApril 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM

    I didn't have time to finish yesterday's comment so will take the opportunity today to post remarks that are more relevant than the foregoing. If I read your post correctly, you seem to think that the difference between the Christian worldview and the other worldviews out there boils down to "sin," sexual sins in particular. That view, of course, does a disservice to the complex and nuanced Christian narrative. Or metanarrative if you prefer. That said, you seem to think, further, that the so-called sexual sins, insofar as they are consensual, do not "harm" others and are. therefore, little more than a fun pastime. After all, what is legal is, moral. End of story. Let me then speak to adultery. It is, of course, now legal in many jurisdictions. No more scarlet letters.
    But is it moral, really harmless?. Obviously not. Consider the impact on children. Consider the failure to live up to a promise (as in Kant's take on broken promises). Consider the economic impact on the community. Consider the social impacts. Consider the emotional/mental suffering. All of which tells me that we have a real moral issue here, something more than a harmless individual choice, something more than a Catholic/Christian sexual "hang up". Moreover, I think, that in varying degrees, the same applies to many other of the sexual "sins" that you have cavalierly dismissed.

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