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

by Nancy R. Pearcey

Astonishingly, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy reports that Islam does not even have a concept of the person: “There is no conceptual equivalent of the Western philosophical concept of ‘person’ in Arabic and in classic Islamic philosophy.” This fact seems “to confirm the importance of the specifically Christian … origins of the term.” 57

When we hear people talk about ideas that are false, yet necessary for a humane social order, that is a signal that they have bumped up against the hard edge of a reality that does not fit their worldview.

The more consistently people work out the logic of their worldview, the more reductionistic the result will be, the wider the gap, and the further its leap into irrational mysticism.