• Main                                      
• Atheistic Worldviews    
  • Empiricism                    
  • Moral Relativism      
  • Pragmatism                
• Mystic Worldviews        
  • Hinduism                        
• Moralistic Worldviews
  • Buddhism                      
  • Confucianism              
• Christian Counterfeits
  • Mormonism                  
  • Jehovah's Witness    
  • Islam                              

other worldviews

English Writer G.K. Chesterton once said: "When we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything."

Everyone has a set of basic beliefs which form their outlook on the world and determine what they end up worshipping. Some worship false Gods, statues, possessions, or intellectual ideologies, while others worship the one true God of Christianity. While avoiding accountability to God is the obvious motivation behind, and reason for, the seemingly endless amount of competing 'worldviews,' in this section we will only be concerned with their logic.

To claim, as religious relativists do, that because of the multitude of worldviews, no one can know if any are true, would be on par with a math teacher claiming that he cannot know the answer to a given math problem because his students had so many different answers. Similarly, the claim that no truth regarding religion can be known, is itself a truth claim about religion and therefore self-refuting. Due to the incredible number of contrary worldviews, however, it would be impossible to examine each one individually. In this section, therefore, we will examine the 4 basic categories of contrary worldviews and delve specifically into the more popular ones.

The 4 basic categories of worldviews which are contrary to Christianity are:

1. Atheistic worldviews which claim there is no God (i.e. Empiricism, moral relativism).
2. Worldviews of 'transcendent mysticism' which claim to be beyond human experience, or rationality, and can only be understood in 'mystic' ways (i.e. Hinduism).
3. Worldviews of 'immanent moralism' which are moralistic in nature and claim to be within human experience (i.e. Buddhism, Confucianism).
4. Christian counterfeits, which take the basics of Christianity and warp it to their own ends (i.e. Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witness).

Since it is only by the grace of God that one can see the illogic of their own competing worldview, a more reflective, rather than argumentative approach will be undertaken to refute them. The competing worldview will be briefly defined and then questions will be posed to expose their arbitrariness, INTERNAL inconsistencies, illogical consequences, or lack of support for rationality. Although for interests' sake some competing worldviews may have more than one question posed, quite often only one is required to dismantle it.

This list of specific worldviews is in its infancy and by no means exhaustive. Hopefully more competing worldviews will be added to this site, but, until then, if a particular view is not addressed, please do your own examination of the arbitrariness, inconsistency, consequences, and ability to support rationality, of that view. Do what we are commanded to do in 1 Thessalonians 5 vs. 21: "Test everything. Hold on to the good."