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Neo-Platonism vs. Christianity: Part I (Flight From Knowledge and Life) (Remastered)
This excerpt confronts modern relativism as a deliberate “flight from knowledge,” tracing how thinkers like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and others helped popularize a pragmatic, positivistic mindset that denies absolutes, distrusts certainty, and replaces the pursuit of truth with the pursuit of utility and control. It argues that this spirit now dominates education, philosophy, semantics, and even the church shifting learning from knowing reality to manipulating it, and turning religion into a tool for personal success or social engineering rather than worship and submission to God. At bottom…
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