DANIEL: ABIDING UNDER PAGANISM

1. DANIEL: ABIDING UNDER PAGANISM

2. Daniel: Abiding Under Paganism • Introduction A. What? B. Why? (Relevance) C. Terms • Historical Contexts A. Biblical B. Contemporary • The Text - Biblical Lessons • Conclusion

3. Daniel: Abiding Under Paganism • Introduction A. What? B. Why? (Relevance) C. Terms • Historical Contexts A. Biblical B. Contemporary • The Text - Biblical Lessons • Conclusion

4. Daniel: Abiding Under Paganism • Introduction A. What? B. Why? (Relevance) C. Terms • Historical Contexts A. Biblical B. Contemporary • The Text - Biblical Lessons • Conclusion

5. Terms • Paganism • Neopaganism • Relativism • Secular Humanism • Postmodernism • Moral Equivalence

6. Terms • Paganism • Neopaganism • Relativism • Secular Humanism • Postmodernism • Moral Equivalence

7. Postmodernism Standford.edu That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning. The term “postmodernism” first entered the philosophical lexicon in 1979, with the publication of The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard. Simulacrum: noun, 1. a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance. 2. an effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite. epistemic certainty (i.e., absolutes) univocity of meaning: the idea that language speaks “with one voice” (i.e., with consistent meaning)

8. Postmodernism brittanica.com ...in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power. wikipedia.com ...a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and universalizing tendency of Western philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of power relationships, personalization and discourse in the "construction" of truth and world views.

9. Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry (CARM) Postmodernism is a relativistic system of observation and thought that denies absolutes and objectivity. Postmodernism has influenced theology, art, culture, architecture, society, film, technology, and economics. Traditional social, art, and cultural constructs are discarded and reinterpreted in relativistic terms. An example of postmodern thought would be the validation of homosexuality as an equally legitimate sexual expression over and against the Judeo-Christian ethic of heterosexual monogamy. In other words, previously taboo practices and beliefs are given equal validity to traditional values and norms often to the point of displacing the latter. This equalization and displacement are not restricted to religious realms but affect all circles of human interaction.

10. Terms • Paganism • Neopaganism • Relativism • Secular Humanism • Postmodernism • Moral Equivalence

11. Moral Equivalence skepticsfieldguide.net The advocate seeks to draw false comparisons between two phenomena which are not morally equivalent. The fallacy of moral equivalence is a strategy often used to denigrate an agency or entity by implying or stating that its policies or practices are as reprehensible as a widely (and justifiably) despised agency or entity.

12. Daniel: Abiding Under Paganism • Introduction A. What? B. Why? (Relevance) C. Terms • Historical Contexts A. Biblical B. Contemporary • The Text - Biblical Lessons • Conclusion