Leadership Personal Reflection
Lucyya
JourneyawayfromChristianity.pptxJourney away from Christianity in the Western world
Deism
A transcendent God is the first cause of the Universe; then He left it to run on its own
(a Clockwork Universe).
The Cosmos is determined; it is a cause and effect Universe, a closed system with no miracle possible.
Human beings are part of this determined system.
Naturalism
The material world is all that exists.
In this view, God does not exist.
The cosmos exists as a uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system.
Human beings are complex machines.
Death is the extinction of the person.
History has no overarching purpose.
Nihilism
A denial of any meaning or value in life.
A negation of knowledge, ethics, beauty, values.
Atheistic Existentialism A Reaction to Nihilism
The cosmos is composed solely of matter.
The world is absurd but people create meaning and value in the absurdity.
People make themselves who they are by their choices.
Theistic Existentialism
People find themselves in an alien world.
The personal is valuable.
God exists but Knowledge is subjective.
People later got into:
Eastern Pantheistic Monism
New Age Spirituality
Postmodernism
