What is the common thread running through all the examples in this chapter? Religions and worldviews that deny the biblical God must treat something else as the ultimate reality (Principle #1). With the exception of the other monotheistic religions, they deify something immanent within the cosmos. They absolutize some aspect of creation as the ultimate explainer. Then they reduce everything else to that single category (Principle #2). Reductionism is like trying to see the world through a single lens. G. K. Chesterton called reductionism a mental prison, “the prison of one thought.” 67
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