Worldviews are a lot like the characters in the famous poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant.” The blind man who caught hold of the waving trunk insisted that the entire elephant was like a snake. The blind man who grasped the tusk argued that the whole animal was like a spear. The man who found the tail insisted that the beast was like a rope. And so on. Idol-based worldviews work in much the same way. Each grabs on to a part of reality and declares it to be the whole show. That one part is treated as the set of conceptual categories that explains all of human experience, the key that unlocks
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