why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way

EPISTEMOLOGYhow do you know?

RED = MOST TRUEWHITE = MORE TRUE

BLUE = LESS TRUEMISS = NOT TRUE

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the last hope of humanity

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why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way

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why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way

check  out  100  years  of  history  at:  h.p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxC5a7Qrstk

why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way

global village

premodern xx - 16th century = knowledge from above

gods and priests

ceremonies & rituals

hunter/Gatherer, pre-industrial

modern .1600-1950 = knowledge from below .

industrialisation .

scientific knowledge .

individual & utopian .

capitalism & mass-production .

postmodern 1950 - present = knowledge from self

no universal truth

evertyhing is subjective

truth is constructed

globalised everything

the last hope of humanity

CHRISTIANITY

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religious  leaders  caught  as  hypocrites;  religious  people  behaving  immorally;  religious  scripture  endorsing  unethical  deeds;  religions  promo6ng  hatred,  conflict,  and  wars;  religions  promo6ng  injus6ce  and  discrimina6on;  and  the  like.

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Far from being the simple and mindless act that we typically associate it with (“monkey see, monkey do”), imitation is now understood as a complex, generative, and multidimensional phenomenon at the heart of what makes us human. In fact,

imitation may very well be the basis for not only how we learn, but also how we understand each other’s intentions and desires,

establish relational bonds, fall in love, become jealous, compete with one another, and violently destroy each other, all the while

operating largely outside of our conscious awareness.

Scott R. Garrels - Mimesis and Science

why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way

humans are creatures of imitation

Humans copy copy the desires of others .

when these desires come into direct competition conflict erupts

human civilisations have found ways to channel these desires to minimise violence

religion once played this role, now other human institutions do, but they are becoming less able to restrain human desire

in the twentieth century the good and evil in our world escalated very quickly

we are now all interconnected in a global village with the technological capacity to

destroy our world

we need a way of being human that does allow

the desires of envy, greed & selfishness to

lead to destruction

the Christian Scriptures have been exposing this human delusion since the beginning

its Jesus who offers us the only Way .

why we’re all religious and Jesus is the only way