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Wed - July 4, 2007

A World of Stone: Materialism's Expiration Date

"There’s a growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has reached its expiration date."

Many of us are impatient with the cold, dry, meaninglessness of materialism--philosophical materialism, that is. Some of us have looked at historic Christianity and found it to be a true and satisfying conjunction of spirituality and rational sense. Others have given up on a search for rational truth, and have embraced postmodernism. Still others, like the speaker of the quote above, have turned to New Age philosophy.

The speaker is Daniel Pinchbeck, in a NY Times Magazine article entitled "The Final Days" by Benjamin Anastas. Pinchbeck wrote an "alternative-culture bestseller," 2012, The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is part of a growing movement that looks to the Mayan calendar as an indicator that the world will come to an end--or some kind of major spiritual revolution--on December 21, 2012.

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Wed - July 4, 2007

A World of Stone: Materialism's Expiration Date

Thinking Christian by Tom Gilson