Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.
Secularization__hat is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age__s not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it__ difficult to think of secularism as anything other than a Christian heresy.
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Secularization__hat is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age__s not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it__ difficult to think of secularism as anything other than a Christian heresy.
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