The third leg of the stool that gives us today's woke movement is postmodernism. It is almost as if someone decided to send postmodernism as the "shock troops" to lay the groundwork for the woke movement. Join us as we discuss and dissect the many serious and indeed fatal flaws of postmodernism both from the Christian and secular standpoints.

The law of gravity is absolutely true whether you believe it or not: if you jump off a 10-story building without fall protection, you will die--so it DOES matter whether or not what you believe is objectively true. Everyone instinctively knows this, yet we have allowed shoddy postmodern thinking to pervade every corner of our minds.

Show Notes:

New Discourses, Gnosticism, Modern and Postmodern
Modernism and Postmodernism vs. The Christian Worldview, Faith of the Founders (history of modernism and postmodernism)
ACL Technologies Inc. v. Northbrook Prop. & Cas. Co., (Cal. App. 4th 1993)
Calls for legal child sex rebound on luminaries of May 68, The Guardian Feb. 24, 2001 (1977 petition signed by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and others calling for age of consent to be lowered to 12 or 13; "[French law] should acknowledge the right of children and adolescents to have relations with whomever they choose.")

I attributed to Andrew Sullivan a quote that in fact was made by a contributor on the New Discourses website; I apologize for the error.

What is gnosticism and what does it have to do with transsexual rights, abortion and the woke movement? This ancient mystery religion is making a big comeback today. Once you understand what gnosticism is, you can't un-see it--but you can see its influences nearly everywhere in advertising, literature, movies, and social media. It is once again becoming part of the cultural air we breathe in everything from cremation to Disney movies. In this episode we examine gnosticism and its relationship both to Christianity and to the woke movement. No culture and no civilization that encourages gnostic tendencies and exalts the autonomous self can survive.

Sources: Gnosticism, by Gervase M. Charmley, Banner of Truth (2016)
The New Gender Gnostics, by Craig A. Carter, Eikon (spring 2020)
Gnosticism, The Christian Institute

Hegel's dialectic has been called the operating system of today's woke movement. Join us as we examine the dialectic Biblically and practically and show how dangerous it has become as a tactic for social transformation both in and outside the Church. Recognize the tactic, and reject the substance.

Notes and references:

Hegelianism and Christianity, by John H. Gerstner, Jr.
Understanding the Dialectic (New Discourses Bullets, episode 21)(short version)
Hegel, Wokeness & the Dialectical Faith of Leftism (New Discourses)(longer version)
Hegelian Dialectics: The Devil's Winning Tool (David Cloud 2008)