The greatest heresy in the history of Christianity

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It is called Zeitgeist: “the spirit of the times”. It proposes that truth is relative to the time period a person is living in. So in ancient civilizations, idolatry and human sacrifices were right because that was their truth. And in the Middle Ages, being a Christian in Europe was right because that was their truth. But after the scientific revolution, when science concludes that there is no God, the right choice for our times is to be faithless. This is, in essence, what our children are taught in school. What they fail to teach is that science cannot explain the primordial cause of the order of the Universe and that it takes a lot of faith to believe that everything has happened by chance alone.

It is the greatest heresy because it is so successful. So many people are following it. We are living alongside the most faithless generation in the history of the world. God would have destroyed the world by now if it were not for the few that remain faithful. Truly, a few sustain the world!
 
Science doesn’t say something about God like that, but does help us to learn about Him from His first book, as it is called, nature.

And I will say I graduated a couple years ago and wasn’t taught this. Of course, it may he where I live.
 
I agree with most of this… but some of your terminology has been appropriated by those that would like to do away with us. Dont be too vocal or might wind up in handcuffs is still something i am learning. And money talks but id rather keep it to myself.
 
Whatever you suffer for the faith, remember martyrs and saints probably suffered much more before us!
 
That’s not what zeitgeist means.

“Zeitgeist (/ˈzaɪtɡaɪst/;[1] spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time. ”

It is the dominant ideals. It doesn’t mean they’re true or right. Just a summation of what they are.
 
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It is called Zeitgeist: “the spirit of the times”. It proposes that truth is relative to the time period a person is living in. So in ancient civilizations, idolatry and human sacrifices were right because that was their truth. And in the Middle Ages, being a Christian in Europe was right because that was their truth. But after the scientific revolution, when science concludes that there is no God, the right choice for our times is to be faithless. This is, in essence, what our children are taught in school. What they fail to teach is that science cannot explain the primordial cause of the order of the Universe and that it takes a lot of faith to believe that everything has happened by chance alone.

It is the greatest heresy because it is so successful. So many people are following it. We are living alongside the most faithless generation in the history of the world. God would have destroyed the world by now if it were not for the few that remain faithful. Truly, a few sustain the world!
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Schools do not teach that there is no God and neither is it taught that science has disproved God. There is a culture of disbelief, but it has nothing to do with science. People in support of metaphysical naturalism have simply latched onto science as the arbiter of all truth, pronouncing to the world that no truth worth knowing can be seen outside of that epistemology method. The goal is to have an excuse to be absolutely skeptical of anything that cannot be known scientifically so as to appear in principle rational in their disbelief. Christians who attempt to attack science provide nice cannon fodder and play into the illusion that science is on the side of metaphysical naturalism, not realizing that the enemy was never science to begin with, but rather our own erroneous misconceptions…

I am not worried about Atheists, i am worried about Christian fundamentalists because they are the enablers of this illusion, they enable it by presenting a straw-man of the Christian faith which the atheists easily knocks down… I’m worried about what they will say next to further alienate us.
 
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It is called Zeitgeist
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I have heard of this movement. Very sad that this ideology is fooling people. Truth does not change because of the times. To say that truth can change does not make sense. Because if that were so then we would not be looking at different truths, we would be looking at different ideologies. Truth is absolute and cannot contradict itself, no matter what time or place. There must be a good and there must be a bad. Those cannot change. Examples: The truth of murder is that it is wrong. The truth of charity is that it is good.

The idea that empirical data can determine whether a divine being exists or not, doesn’t make sense. Also, the idea that if science cant explain something, then it doesn’t exist, is a false understanding of science’s capabilities. Science is the study of the world around us. We use it to explain why certain things are the way they are, how they are formed, and what causes it. The key thing is that we have to be able to observe what we want to make a theory about it, in order to learn about it. An example of this could be, the discovery of DNA. This discovery changed biology forever. Before this discovery no one ever knew that we had a carrier of genetic information, yet it was there. The point is, science can only be used to explain the physical and natural world, using experiments and observations to create theories, hypothesis’, and laws.
The Supernatural cannot be explained by science because it isn’t the physical and natural world we are dealing with. We cannot go up to heaven and study God as though he is a specimen. After all, he is an infinite being who created the natural and physical world that we study using science.

Therefore, i wouldn’t rely on science to explain everything.

Also, a side note: morality is a very real thing. Good and Bad are not in the domain of science, yet they do exist.

Also, scientism is a cold ideology
 
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I agree with you. However, many people are faithless and follow such ideology. It is an unprecedented time in history in this sense. Reminds me of Jesus’ words: ’ when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’
 
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However, many people are faithless and follow such ideology. It is an unprecedented time in history in this sense.
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I totally agree. I once heard from the zeitgeist’s that Jesus never existed. Clearly they didn’t read Tacitus’ works, or Josephus’…
 
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Zeitgeist, if by that one is talking about the documentaries you can find on youtube, just feeds on peoples paranoia and disillusionment. You don’t go there for real knowledge or intelligent debate.
 
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Yeah nothing said in here has any relevance to the academic term zeitgeist I’m familiar with.
 
There are so many heresies, it is not easy to pick the greatest one.

It seems to me that the greatest disorder in the US these days is not scientific atheism but the cult of the self. I don’t know if that is a heresy but it certainly works against faith for many.
 
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Yeah I am more upset that the documentary has hijacked the word in popular vernacular.
 
“Respect for God has disappeared from human hearts. They wish to efface even God’s memory. This perversity is nothing less than the beginning of the last days of the world.”
Pope St. Pius X, 1914
 
Very true. Never before have so many people turned away from God as in the last 50 years. It is unprecedented.
 
I would say that the greatest heresy is Gnosticism, because it is the root of a multitude of heresies.
 
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