Nancy Pearcey Quotes About Materialism

Quotes about: Materialism

• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Rights, Numbers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Reality, Doe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Materialism, Blind

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

• The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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