Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (40 page)

mind, idol of,
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personhood and,
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reason, idol of,
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reductionism, as consequence of,
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self-referential absurdity of,
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senses, idol of,
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testing of,
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unmasking of,
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The Illusion of Conscious Will
(Wegner),
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image of God and image of an idol,
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imagination, idol of,
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impressionism,
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Islam,
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J

Jacobs, Alan,
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,
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Jeremiah, prophet,
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John, the Baptist,
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Johnson, Thomas K.,
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Joshua,
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just-war doctrine,
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K

Kaiser, Christopher,
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Kandinsky, Wassily,
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Kant, Immanuel,
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Kant’s Copernican revolution,
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kardia
, Greek word for heart,
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Kauffman, Stuart,
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Keller, Timothy,
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Kenny, Anthony,
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kin altruism,
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Kinnaman, David,
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Kline, Morris,
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knowledge, moral responsibility for,
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Koran
(that which is recited),
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Koukl, Greg,
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L’Abri ministry, Switzerland,
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language games,
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Latour, Bruno,
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“The Law of Life
”
(London),
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leap of faith, secular,
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Lennox, John,
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Lentricchia, Frank,
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Letham, Robert,
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Lewis, C. S.,
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Li Po,
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liar’s paradox,
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liberation theology,
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literary criticism, postmodern,
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literary naturalism,
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The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
(Comte-Sponville),
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logical positivism,
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London, Jack,
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love

Christian view of,
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reductionist view of,
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Luther, Martin,
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,
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Lynn, Barry,
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Lyotard, Jean-François,
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M

Mach, Ernst,
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Malik, Kenan,
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Mars Hill, Paul’s speech,
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Marx, Karl,
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Marxism,
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Maslow, Abraham,
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materialists and materialism

abstract art and,
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Christian response to,
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definition of,
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eliminative materialism,
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as idol,
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pantheism and,
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as philosophical family,
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physicalism and,
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reductionism and,
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as religion or faith,
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self-referential absurdity of,
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mathematical order in nature,
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The Matrix
(movie),
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matter, idol of,
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maya
(illusion),
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McGinn, Colin,
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mechanistic worldview (world as machine),
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meditation, Eastern,
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metanoia
, Greek word for repentance,
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Middelmann, Udo,
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Midgley, Mary,
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Mill, John Stuart,
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Miłosz, Czesław,
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mind (
nous
), Greek word for,
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mind, idol of,
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Mind and Cosmos
(Nagel),
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Minsky, Marvin,
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“Missa Charles Darwin” (Brown),
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missionary training, apologetics as,
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Mitchell, Deborah,
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modernism,
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,
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Monet, Claude,
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monotheism,
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Moore, Lecrae,
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morality,
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emotivism,
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relativism, moral,
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religions without morality,
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skepticism, moral,
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Moreland, J. P.,
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multiculturalism,
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mysticism, secular,
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Nagel, Thomas,
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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein,
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Native American religions,
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naturalism and naturalistic,
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nature

as idol,
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laws of,
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mathematical order in,
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Nazism,
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neo-orthodoxy,
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neo-Platonism,
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neuroscience, reductionism and,
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New Atheists,
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Nietzsche, Friedrich,
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nirvana
(to become extinguished),
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noetic effects of sin,
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nous
, Greek word for mind,
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O

objective truth,
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,
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the one and the many,
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ontology,
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origin of life,
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Origin of Species
(Darwin),
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origin of the universe,
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organic worldview, Romanticism,
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Orwell, George,
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P

paganism,
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pantheism,
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Parfit, Derek,
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Passmore, John,
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Pavlov, Ivan,
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Penner, Myron,
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Percy, Walker,
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performative contradiction,
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personal, as philosophical term, definition of,
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personal beings and personhood, as evidence for a personal God,
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personal God, as explanation for personal beings,
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non-personal causes inadequate to explain personal beings,
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