Lesson #2

War of Worldviews

 

Worksheet #1
Type: Text

Understanding the Lie of Humanism
By: Brannon S. Howse

1.  A Religion or worldview is:
 
 a) A compilation of people that tell you what to do
 
 b) A Compilation of stories that tell you what to do
 
 c) A Compilation of beliefs that form the foundation of your actions
2.  Your worldview is the foundation of:
 
 a) Your values
 
 b) Your actions
 
 c) Your opinions
3.  Humanism is:
 
 a) The Total of one's actions toward humanity
 
 b) The state of being a human
 
 c) The belief that man is God
4.  Atheism is the belief that:
 
 a) God became man
 
 b) There is no God
 
 c) Man is God
5.  Moral relativism is the belief:
 
 a) That there are moral absolutes
 
 b) That there is no such thing as absolute moral truth because truth is relative to the individual
 
 c) Morality is relative to the leading cultural index
6.  Evolution is:
 
 a) The rotation of the earth on its axis
 
 b) The belief in Charles Darwin
 
 c) The belief that man was not created but was the result of a spontaneous and random process
7.  Socialism is:
 
 a) The belief in being very social
 
 b) The practice of being anti-social
 
 c) The elimination of private property for the purpose of the redistribution of wealth by the centralized government
8.  Autonomous man is the belief that man:
 
 a) Is automatically bad
 
 b) Was automatically created
 
 c) Is the center of all things and at his core is good but does bad things when impacted negatively by his environment
9.  To bring about a one-world government involves:
 
 a) The elimination of national sovereignty and national borders and the creation of a world court, world tax and one-world leaders
 
 b) Everyone singing the song "We are the World"
 
 c) Everyone in the world developing a commitment to global consciousness
10.  According to the Humanist Manifesto I, II and 2000 humanists believe:
 
 a) In the God of the Bible
 
 b) There is no such thing as God and the supernatural
 
 c) The relevance and authority of the Bible
 
 d) The free enterprise system is the best type of economic system
 
 e) In the separation of church and state
 
 f) That man is part of nature and emerged as a result of a continuous process
 
 g) Moral values come from human experience
 
 h) In abstinence before marriage
 
 i) Ethics are man made and stem from human need and interest
 
 j) People have the right to commit suicide and to doctor assisted suicide
 
 k) Parents should not impose their religious beliefs on their children
 
 l) Moral absolute truth
 
 m) The quest for the good life is the central task for mankind
 
 n) A socialized and cooperative economic order
 
 o) That marriage is only between one woman and one man
 
 p) In abortion on demand
 
 q) The development of a world court
 
 r) In same-sex marriage and special rights for homosexuals
 
 s) In school prayer
 
 t) In a biblical worldview

 

Worksheet #2
Type: Audio

Worldviews in Collision
By: Dr. David Noebel

1.  Christians have allowed Christianity to be removed from America's educational system by:
 
 a) Not writing enough textbooks that discuss Christianity
 
 b) Allowing the myth of the separation of church and state to go unchallenged
 
 c) Not pointing out that Secular Humanism is a religion and is taught in America's public schools
2.  The religion of humanism has been ushered into the back door of America's schools while what is being ushered out the front door?
 
 a) Multiculturalism
 
 b) Diversity education
 
 c) Christianity
3.  Another name for Cosmic Humanism is:
 
 a) Space exploration
 
 b) The New Age Movement
 
 c) The Old Age Movement
4.  The Secular Humanists and Cosmic Humanists spend most of their efforts battling for the heart and minds of:
 
 a) People from age 25-50
 
 b) People from age 35-70
 
 c) People from age 15-25
5.  The Secular Humanists, the Cosmic Humanists, the Marxist Humanists and the postmodern crowd all have one thing in common which is:
 
 a) They love Christianity
 
 b) They are all anti-Christianity
 
 c) They are tolerant of Christianity
6.  The predominate worldview taught in America's public/government schools is:
 
 a) The Secular Humanist worldview
 
 b) The Christian worldview
 
 c) Both a Christian worldview and the Secular Humanist worldview
7.  When the humanists talk about diversity they don't mean to include Christianity they mean diversity in teaching:
 
 a) American history, science and English
 
 b) Reading, writing and arithmetic
 
 c) Secular Humanism, Marxism and New Age or Cosmic Humanism
8.  Multiculturalism is not a study of many cultures but is:
 
 a) A denial and put down of the western culture
 
 b) A true analysis of the western culture
 
 c) A study of the positive influences of Christianity on the western culture
9.  The four main worldviews that compete with Christianity are:
 
 a) Secular Humanism
 
 b) Marxism
 
 c) Cosmic Humanism or the New Age Movement
 
 d) Pantheism
 
 e) Moral relativism
 
 f) Postmodernism
10.  A worldview is a group of ideas that speak to:
 
 a) Theology
 
 b) Philosophy
 
 c) Science
 
 d) Biology
 
 e) Sociology
 
 f) Psychology
 
 g) Law
 
 h) Politics
 
 i) Economics
 
 j) History
11.  Friedrich Nietzsche and Michael Foucault are the two founders of:
 
 a) Harvard University
 
 b) The Humanist Association
 
 c) Postmodern thought
12.  Nihilism is the belief that:
 
 a) Life has meaning
 
 b) Life is meaningless except for the purpose of the state
 
 c) The days of your life are ordained by God
13.  Nihilism started in the English department with the belief that:
 
 a) Words have meaning
 
 b) Words don't have meaning; the reader decides what the words mean
 
 c) An author can write a document that has but one meaning
14.  Before Michael Foucault died of AIDS he spent two years:
 
 a) Studying the Bible
 
 b) Contemplating the claims of Christianity as truth
 
 c) Knowingly infecting dozens with AIDS
15.  Postmodernism proclaims:
 
 a) There is absolute truth
 
 b) Truth is created by God
 
 c) Truth is created by man
16.  The theology for Secular Humanism is:
 
 a) Theism
 
 b) Atheism
 
 c) Agnosticism
17.  Atheism is the belief that:
 
 a) There is no God
 
 b) There is a God
 
 c) There are many Gods
18.  The first Humanist Manifesto was written in:
 
 a) 1999
 
 b) 1909
 
 c) 1933
19.  The second Humanist Manifesto was written in:
 
 a) 2003
 
 b) 1973
 
 c) 1983
20.  In the area of philosophy Secular Humanism believes:
 
 a) There is no such thing as the spiritual world or supernatural but only the natural world
 
 b) There is a spiritual world and a natural world
 
 c) There is only a spiritual world
21.  In the area of ethics Secular Humanism believes:
 
 a) In moral absolutes
 
 b) In absolute truth
 
 c) In moral relativism
22.  Another word for moral relativism in America's public educational system is:
 
 a) Situational ethics & values clarification courses
 
 b) Absolute truth
 
 c) Absolutism
23.  In the area of biology Secular Humanism believes in:
 
 a) Creation
 
 b) Evolution
 
 c) Intelligent design
24.  In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Edwards v. Aguillard said that:
 
 a) Creationism could be taught along with evolution in America's public schools
 
 b) Only creationism can be taught in America's public schools
 
 c) Creationism could not be taught along with evolution in America's public schools
25.  The Secular Humanism view of psychology is reductionism which says:
 
 a) Man has no soul and his brain is made up of matter that reacts to chemicals and impulses and thus he is no different than an animal
 
 b) Man has a soul
 
 c) Man has a mind and a soul and is created in the image of God
26.  The Secular Humanist view of sociology, or the study of the family, is:
 
 a) A family is created through the institution of marriage which consists of one man and one woman
 
 b) A family is whatever you want it to be including same-sex marriage
 
 c) God created the institution of the family and marriage
27.  The Secular Humanist view of law is:
 
 a) The application of the moral law
 
 b) There is absolute truth that is for all times, all places and all people
 
 c) There are no absolutes and the law is free to evolve to fit with the felt necessities of the time
28.  The Secular Humanist view of politics is:
 
 a) National sovereignty for all nations
 
 b) Protected national borders
 
 c) World government
29.  The Secular Humanist view of economics is:
 
 a) Capitalism
 
 b) Socialism
 
 c) The free enterprise system
30.  The Secular Humanist view of history is:
 
 a) Historical evolution
 
 b) God's story from the beginning of time
 
 c) His story
31.  Humanism is a religion?
 
 a) True
 
 b) False
32.  The University of Minnesota identifies a humanist student organization as a:
 
 a) Secular organization
 
 b) Religious organization
 
 c) Neither
33.  Harvard University has had a humanist chaplain.
 
 a) True
 
 b) False
34.  The American Humanist Association has a 501-C3 religious, tax-exempt status.
 
 a) False
 
 b) True

 

Worksheet #3
Type: Video

The Incredible Faith of Atheism
By: Dr. Frank Harber

1.  To be an atheist you have to believe that life comes from:
 
 a) Life
 
 b) Non-life
 
 c) God
2.  The Bible does not teach blind faith but:
 
 a) Ignorant faith
 
 b) Check your brains at the door faith
 
 c) Intelligent faith
3.  The influence of the life of Jesus Christ was so great:
 
 a) That we divide history as BC, "before Christ" and AD, Anno Domini, that is, "in the year of our Lord."
 
 b) That we acknowledge how long ago he was born when we write the year on our checks
4.  To be an atheist you have to have enough faith to believe that:
 
 a) Non-intelligence came from intelligence
 
 b) Intelligence came from non-intelligence
 
 c) Mind came before matter
5.  The atheist wants people to believe in:
 
 a) Un-designed, design
 
 b) Designed, design
 
 c) A designer
6.  The greater the design:
 
 a) The longer the evolution process took
 
 b) The greater the designer
 
 c) The simpler the designer
7.  Un-designed, design is like saying:
 
 a) My unpainted painting
 
 b) My newly born old baby
 
 c) My undesigned tie
8.  If you find a turtle on a fence post you know that:
 
 a) It got there by itself
 
 b) It flew up there
 
 c) Someone put it there
9.  What preaches to us about an intelligent God that designed and created the universe?
 
 a) The atheist
 
 b) Nature
 
 c) The evolutionist
10.  To be an atheist you have to have faith in the belief that:
 
 a) Effect had no cause
 
 b) God was the cause
 
 c) Cause came from no cause
11.  The laws of thermodynamics confirm the biblical account that:
 
 a) The earth is infinite in its age
 
 b) The earth had a beginning and a cause
 
 c) The earth had no cause but just was
12.  If the earth has not always been in existence as confirmed by the law of thermodynamics then it:
 
 a) Had to have a beginning and a cause
 
 b) Could have come into being without a cause
 
 c) Neither
13.  The Bible says that God who always was created:
 
 a) Almost everything
 
 b) A few things and then the rest evolved
 
 c) All that is
14.  To be an atheist you have to have faith in the belief that:
 
 a) Meaning has no meaning
 
 b) Meaning has meaning
 
 c) Someone gave reason and logic to that which has meaning
15.  Sin is what it is because:
 
 a) You are who you are
 
 b) God is who He is
 
 c) The culture has defined it as such
16.  Sin is:
 
 a) What makes you feel bad
 
 b) What makes you ashamed
 
 c) Rebellion against God
17.  If you don't believe in God you only have two options:
 
 a) You die and that is it
 
 b) You are reincarnated
 
 c) You die and stand before God and are judged by Him

 

Worksheet #4
Type: Test

Developing Your Worldview,Test #1

1.  Humanism is:
 
 a) Acts of compassion toward humanity
 
 b) The state of being a human
 
 c) The belief that man is God
2.  In the area of biology, Secular Humanism believes in:
 
 a) Creation
 
 b) Evolution
 
 c) Intelligent design
3.  Moral relativism is the belief:
 
 a) That there are moral absolutes
 
 b) That there is no such thing as absolute moral truth because truth is relative to the individual
 
 c) Morality is relative to the leading cultural index
4.  Multiculturalism is not a study of many cultures but is:
 
 a) A denial and put down of the western culture
 
 b) A true analysis of the western culture
 
 c) A study of the positive influences of Christianity on the western culture
5.  Nihilism is the belief that:
 
 a) Life has meaning
 
 b) Life is meaningless except for the purpose of the state
 
 c) The days of your life are ordained by God
6.  Socialism is:
 
 a) The belief in being very social
 
 b) The practice of being anti-social
 
 c) A government sponsored economic and political system that has the centralized government infringing on the free enterprise system and private property rights for the purpose of redistribution of wealth
7.  Autonomous man is the belief that man:
 
 a) Is automatically bad
 
 b) Was automatically created
 
 c) Is the center of all things and at his core is good but does bad things when impacted negatively by his environment
8.  A Religion or worldview is:
 
 a) A compilation of people that tell you what to do
 
 b) A compilation of stories that tell you what to do
 
 c) A compilation of beliefs that form the foundation of your actions
9.  To bring about a one-world government involves:
 
 a) The elimination of national sovereignty, national boarders and the creation of a world court, world tax and one-world leaders
 
 b) Everyone singing the song "We are the World"
 
 c) Everyone in the world developing a commitment to global consciousness
10.  According to the Humanist Manifesto I, II and 2000 humanists believe:
 
 a) In the God of the Bible
 
 b) There is no such thing as God and the supernatural
 
 c) The relevance and authority of the Bible
 
 d) The free enterprise system is the best type of economic system
 
 e) In the separation of church and state
 
 f) That man is part of nature and emerged as a result of a continuous process
 
 g) Moral values come from human experience
 
 h) In abstinence before marriage
 
 i) Ethics are man made and stem from human need and interest
 
 j) People have the right to commit suicide and to doctor assisted suicide
 
 k) Parents should not impose their religious beliefs on their children
 
 l) Moral absolute truth
 
 m) The quest for the good life is the central task for mankind
 
 n) A socialized and cooperative economic order
 
 o) That marriage is only between one woman and one man
 
 p) In abortion on demand
 
 q) The development of a world court
 
 r) In same-sex marriage and special rights for homosexuals
 
 s) In school prayer
 
 t) In a biblical worldview
11.  Your worldview is the foundation of:
 
 a) Your values
 
 b) Your actions
 
 c) Your opinions
12.  Christians have allowed Christianity to be removed from America's educational system by:
 
 a) Not writing enough textbooks that discuss Christianity
 
 b) Allowing the myth of the separation of church and state to go unchallenged
 
 c) Not pointing out that Secular Humanism is a religion and is taught in America's public schools
13.  The Secular Humanists view of psychology is reductionism which says:
 
 a) Man has no soul and his brain is made up of matter that reacts to chemicals and impulses and thus he is no different than an animal
 
 b) Man has a soul
 
 c) Man has a mind and a soul and his created in the image of God
14.  Another name for Cosmic Humanism is:
 
 a) Space exploration
 
 b) The New Age Movement
 
 c) The Old Age Movement
15.  When the humanists talk about diversity they don't mean to include Christianity, they mean diversity in teaching:
 
 a) American history, science and English
 
 b) Reading, writing and arithmetic
 
 c) Secular Humanism, Marxism and New Age, or Cosmic Humanism
16.  The four main worldviews that compete with Christianity are:
 
 a) Secular Humanism
 
 b) Marxism
 
 c) Cosmic Humanism or the New Age Movement
 
 d) Pantheism
 
 e) Moral relativism
 
 f) Postmodernism
17.  The Secular Humanist view of economics is:
 
 a) Capitalism
 
 b) Socialism
 
 c) The free enterprise system
18.  A worldview is a group of ideas that speak to:
 
 a) Theology
 
 b) Philosophy
 
 c) Science
 
 d) Biology
 
 e) Sociology
 
 f) Psychology
 
 g) Law
 
 h) Politics
 
 i) Economics
 
 j) History
19.  Friedrich Nietzsche and Michael Foucault are the two founders of:
 
 a) Harvard University
 
 b) The Humanist Association
 
 c) Postmodern thought
20.  Before Michael Foucault died of AIDS he spent two years:
 
 a) Studying the Bible
 
 b) Contemplating the claims of Christianity as truth
 
 c) Knowingly infecting dozens with AIDS
21.  Postmodernism proclaims:
 
 a) There is absolute truth
 
 b) Truth is created by God
 
 c) Truth is created by man
22.  The theology for Secular Humanism is:
 
 a) Theism
 
 b) Atheism
 
 c) Agnosticism
23.  Atheism is the belief that:
 
 a) God became man
 
 b) There is no God
 
 c) Man is God
24.  The first Humanist Manifesto was written in:
 
 a) 1999
 
 b) 1909
 
 c) 1933
25.  The second Humanist Manifesto was written in:
 
 a) 2003
 
 b) 1973
 
 c) 1983
26.  In the area of philosophy, a Secular Humanist believes:
 
 a) There is no such thing as the spiritual world or supernatural but only the natural world
 
 b) There is a spiritual world and a natural world
 
 c) There is only a spiritual world
27.  In the area of ethics, a Secular Humanist believes:
 
 a) In moral absolutes
 
 b) In Situational ethics
 
 c) In absolute truth
 
 d) In moral relativism
28.  Another word for moral relativism in America's public educational system is:
 
 a) Situational ethics and values clarification courses
 
 b) Absolute truth
 
 c) Absolutism
29.  The Secular Humanist view of sociology, or the study of the family, is:
 
 a) A family is created through the institution of marriage which consists of one man and one woman
 
 b) A family is whatever you want it to be including same-sex marriage
 
 c) God created the institution of the family and marriage
30.  The Secular Humanist view of law is:
 
 a) The application of the moral law
 
 b) There is absolute truth that is for all times, all places, and all people
 
 c) There are no absolutes and the law is free to evolve to fit with the felt necessities of the time
31.  To be an atheist you have to believe that life comes from:
 
 a) Life
 
 b) Non-life
 
 c) God
32.  To be an atheist you have to have enough faith to believe that:
 
 a) Non-intelligence came from intelligence
 
 b) Intelligence came from non-intelligence
 
 c) Mind came before matter
 
 d) Matter came before the mind
33.  Sin is what it is because:
 
 a) You are who you are
 
 b) God is who He is
 
 c) The culture has defined it as such
34.  The atheist wants people to believe in:
 
 a) Un-designed, design
 
 b) Designed, design
 
 c) A designer
35.  The greater the design:
 
 a) The longer the evolution process took
 
 b) The greater the designer
 
 c) The simpler the designer
36.  Un-designed design, is like saying:
 
 a) My unpainted painting
 
 b) My newly born old baby
 
 c) My undesigned tie
37.  What preaches to us about an intelligent God that designed and created the universe?
 
 a) The atheist
 
 b) Nature
 
 c) The evolutionist
38.  To be an atheist you have to have faith in the belief that:
 
 a) Cause had an effect
 
 b) Cause had no effect
 
 c) God was the cause
 
 d) Cause had no cause
39.  If the earth has not always been in existence, as confirmed by the law of thermodynamics, then it:
 
 a) Had to have a beginning and a cause
 
 b) Could have come into being without a cause
 
 c) Neither
40.  The Bible says that God who always was created:
 
 a) Almost everything
 
 b) A few things and then the rest evolved
 
 c) All that is
41.  To be an atheist you have to have faith in the belief that:
 
 a) Meaning has no meaning
 
 b) Meaning has meaning
 
 c) Someone gave reason and logic to that which has meaning
42.  Sin is:
 
 a) What makes you feel bad
 
 b) What makes you ashamed
 
 c) Rebellion against God
 
 d) What is not consistent with the character and nature of God
43.  If you don't believe in God you only have two options:
 
 a) You die and that is it
 
 b) You are reincarnated
 
 c) You die and stand before God and are judged by Him
44.  The Secular Humanist view of politics is:
 
 a) National sovereignty for all nations
 
 b) Protected national borders
 
 c) World government
45.  The laws of thermodynamics confirm the biblical account that:
 
 a) The earth is infinite in its age
 
 b) The earth had a beginning and a cause
 
 c) The earth had no cause but just was
46.  The Secular Humanist view of history is:
 
 a) Historical evolution
 
 b) God's story from the beginning of time
 
 c) His story