I was asked to post the stuff from Facebook onto Faithlife since there are many that don't do Facebook. Currently discussing worldviews...
An introduction to Worldviews: Worldviews are what we think makes the world go around: "Is there a God?" is the biggest one, but with the new attention to BLM and marxism, a look back at our most recent century might be a good idea:
Ideas are not isolated concepts. They have consequences: good ideas have good consequences, and bad ideas have victims.
The 20th century was repleat with examples of bad ideas and their bad consequences, especially in two aspects. First, it was a century of UTOPIAN ideas. Economic ideas like marxism (including socialism and communism) promised to make the world convenient, productive, and free of disease. Yet each set of these utopian ideas was based on a faulty worldview, and the story of the 20th century is one of bloodshed and aggression. In hindsight it's easy to see what happened. Remove God and there is no suitable replacement.
Second, last century was one of MARGINALIZING ideas. The century began with the eugenics movement (Margarett Sanger and her hatred of black people and also of the "undesirables" of society led to mass sterilizations of the black and poor and led to Planned Parenthood). Next, the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews , and then the millions of aborted children at the end of the century, and we are just barely scratching the surface of failed ideas (add Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Khmer Rouge, and several other genocides). Each of these reflect ideas that people are not valuable (image of God) persons. Worldviews exert their greatest influence in offering definitions, and faulty worldviews define words, and then ideas and persons, in destructive ways.
(Currently reading Making Sense Of Your World: A Biblical Worldview)