SATAN'S LAST STAND

SATAN'S LAST STAND

PREMODERN - Early Concepts of God, Truth and the Universe

Absolutes World-View - God's Rule

Time: Ancient Greek through to Renaissance/Reformation

World View: Multi-faceted, Mysterious, Moral

Reality Creates Interpretation ("I Call Them The Way They Are")

Culture - Agricultural (Earth, Nature, Spirit)

Common Elements - Deity (Supernatural) - Analytic (Absolute Truth)

Virtue - Purpose through Truth - Wisdom

Tools: Study, Prayer, Authority ("Who are you looking to for direction?")

Truth is Marvelous - Moral Expedition - All That Is Can Be Known

Enemy: Deceit and Sin Battlefield: Soul

Goal: Power to Explore God's Universe

FOCUS: Spirit - Find God

MODERN - Last 200 years of Western Culture

Autonomous World-View - Man Rules

Time: Enlightenment: French Revolution 1789- Fall of Berlin Wall (Communism) 1989

World-View: Materialistic, Mechanical, Marxist

My Interpretation Of Reality ("I Call Them The Way I See Them")

Culture - Industrial (Time, Machine, Fire)

Common Elements: Deist- Atheist - Rationalist

Virtue - Perfection through Technology - Knowledge

Tools: Demythology, Science, Comparison ("How do you know that is true?")

Truth is Mind - Mental Exploration - All That Can Be Known Is Material

Enemy: Ignorance, Superstition, Non-rational Battlefield: Mind

Goal - Power to Control Our Universe

FOCUS: Stuff - Forget God POSTMODERN - Present Developing Spiritual-Cultural Climate

Anti-WorldView - No Rules

Time: Present Climate: 1970 (U.S. - Kent State) - Future - 2001+

World-View: Multicultural, Methodological (orthopraxy not orthodoxy), Minority-Rule

Interpretation/Language Creates Reality ("They're Nothing Until I Call Them")

Culture - Information (Space, Network, Air)

Common Elements: Monist - Cynical - Critical - Mystical - Personal Experience

Tools: Deconstruction, Denial, Disapproval ("What right do you have to say that?")

Truth is Made Up - Cultural Construction - Nothing Can Be Surely Known

Virtue - Peace Through Tolerance - Tolerate Anything Except Intolerance

Enemy: Intolerance: Fundamentalist, Hierarchy, Missionary Battlefield: Language

Goal - Power to Create Our Own Universe

FOCUS: Self - Be God