Are we living in a POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD? Prof Tony Campolo

Renowned sociologist, speaker & poverty activist Dr TONY CAMPOLO looks at whether we're living in a POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD, or one that is merely post-modern.

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[RadarKat73080]

Just because we don't know everything doesn't mean the answer is God. Try taking a test in school and filling in all the answers you don't know with "God." Let me know if you get 100%.

[jonescomplete]

@DandAinTac lol there goes every metaphysical idea out the window...

[DandAinTac]

"...we won't accept anything as true, if we cannot prove it by logic or by empirical evidence, well you can't deal with Christianity on that level."

What more needs to be said about such a belief system?

[dapersons]

But why not apply simple science to the fundamentalist, literalist teachings which took over in the 4th century when free thinking and questions were shut down and erradicated as much as possible?

[holyheretics]

Prof (and pastor) Tony Campolo says that over the last 20 years even the most sophisticated minds in the world are saying wait a minute, there is truth that is way beyond what science and reason can comprehend.

He goes on to quote a Catholic philosopher who lived 400 years ago.

Our Post-Christian Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson rejected the divinity of Christ and Albert Einstein rejected religions and a belief in a personal God.

[holyheretics]

Our chosen group of "greater" scientists were members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Our survey found near universal rejection of the transcendent by NAS natural scientists. Disbelief in God and immortality among NAS biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%, respectively, and among NAS physical scientists it was 79.0% and 76.3%. Most of the rest were agnostics on both issues, with few believers.

[holyheretics]

Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).

[holyheretics]

In his article, Albert Einsteins God — The Product of Human Weaknesses, published on Thursday, May 15, 2008, Mohler also wrote: Einsteins language is very clear. God is dismissed as nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses — a statement hauntingly like the verdict of Friedrich Nietzsche... In the end, it is better to see Einstein, not as a believer of sorts, but as an atheist of sorts. Belief in God was simply childish, he asserted.

[holyheretics]

And Daniel Patrick Thurs, the author of Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Popular Culture, shows why various 20th-century mystics are mistaken in trying to find "room for spirituality" in the "jostling and overlapping possibilities" of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

[holyheretics]

MYTH-BUSTING, FROM GALILEO TO HEISENBERG

Matthew Stanley of New York University examines Albert Einstein's declarations about the divine and concludes that he did not believe in a personal God. "To Einstein," Stanley writes, "divine judgment and the efficacy of prayer seemed completely implausible in light of the consistency of science."