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How Does Your Worldview Answer These Seven Questions?
Worldviews matter. How we see the world and everything in it, including our fellow human beings, determines a lot about our lives. Values, priorities, behavior, politics, religious beliefs, relationships and much more depend to a large extent on our big picture view of the world and reality. Even our own happiness or peace living in our skin.
We live in a time where deep divides exist in our politics and these divides can be attributed to a considerable degree to worldview differences. It is reasonably well understood that one very significant division is between those in our cities and in our rural communities. Where one lives and who is in our inner circle has a great impact on our view of the right thing for our leaders to do to deliver a better tomorrow.
Unlike other times in history, the cultural and personal worldviews of today are far from homogenous. In the Greco-Roman world, for example, the many stories of the gods and their interactions among humans explained much of what they saw. Questioning that too much could result in major problems, just ask Socrates.
The transition to a worldview associated with Christendom took centuries but once established the worldview promoted by the Church was dominant with relatively few dissenting voices. This worldview was pretty aggressively enforced by the…
