Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

by Nancy R. Pearcey

Scripture nowhere encourages the notion that “faith” equals commitment quarantined from evidence or isolated from the mind—the “will to avoid knowing what is true,” as Friedrich Nietzsche put it in his work The Antichrist.

cultures in the grip of inadequate worldviews begin to actualize societies that are less than humane.

When we define God as a something instead of a Someone, we will tend to treat humans as somethings too.

Idols deify some part of the created order. But no matter which part they choose, a part is always too limited to explain the whole.

people suppress anything that threatens their favored worldview. If general revelation is evidence for God, then every substitute religion will have to deny that evidence.

extreme logical consistency in the face of contrary facts is a form of insanity.

Christianity offers a transcendent truth—a perspective not bound by the spirit of the age. It liberates individuals to think critically about the prevailing ethos.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

Those who deny that we have access to an external reality still look both ways before crossing the street.

as the Bible loses influence, the West is losing its sense of any unified truth.