Christian Apologetics

"religious pluralism is a normative thesis about diversity..."

"the bad news: no religion is true
the good news: it doesn't matter; it will all turn out okay in the end"

"religious pluralism looks a lot like secularism w/ incense"

if i am beginning to understand this issue... i am understanding that Jesus is a great model for the dialogue needed with postmodern friends, he was a great question asker, he acted with compassion...

the self: another shift

"Sartre said, 'Existence precedes essence.' We make ourselves by what we choose to do. "

"For Nietzsche the only self worth living was the self of the ...Overman, the one who has risen above the conventional herd and has fashioned himself."

a shift:

"premodern" theistic notion that human beings are dignified

by being created in the image of God

to

"modern" notion that human beings are the product of their DNA template, which itself is the result of unplanned evolution based on change mutations and the survival of the fittest

to

"postmodern" notion of an insubstantial self constructed by the language it uses

to describe itself

Sire - p. 181-2