The Way Worldviews Work: "There Can Be Only One!"

Reductionism of Worldviews, (particularly the Christian Worldview) is very much in vogue today - especially among social progressives. Some do this motivated by a desire to minimize potential conflict. Others engage in Worldview reductionism because their Worldview informs and gives them permission to do so... 

Thus... 

One of the great myths often associated with "tolerance" (democracy) is that all ideological people groups (along with their unique distinctives) can be represented equally. This is not, nor ever can be, a true reality. 

For one ideology to express it's distinctives freely and fully, necessarily means the suppression and minimizing of competing distinctives in other ideologies. 

Some Examples are: 1. The supercessionism of Jesus Christ (Isaiah 45:5; John 14:16), 2. The Practice of Islamic Sharia Law, 3. Hinduism and Karma as a form of "Justice" 4. Pantheism's view of God and physical reality. 5. Capitalism vs. Communism as competing socio-economic theories. 6. Nietzschean Übermensch philosophy. 7. Humanism and it's optimistic view of the intrinsic nature of humankind. 8. P.E.T.A. and Peter Singer's philosophy of "Animal Liberation." 9. Science's view regarding the random evolution of humans as a biological machine.

At first blush, one might assume that for peace to reign, the only recourse is to strip all ideologies of their unique distinctives, and irrationally declare by political fiat (in the spirit of "tolerance"): THAT THEY ARE ALL NOW THE SAME (sic).

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, innate in the DNA of all ideologies and worldviews*** is the irreducible and primordial cry: "There can be only one!!!"

***Worldview Questions:

1. Where are we?

2. Who are we?

3. What is wrong?

4. How do we fix it?

Relativity and Make-Believe vs. Truth and What Is Real

One of the unique distinctives of our contemporary society is:

Our sincere resolve to think RELATIVELY, 
while in the presence of  TRUTH; 
in conjunction with, our almost god-like capacity 
to CREATE and experience "make-believe" as almost REAL... 

These are astonishing in their similarity...

They in fact share much of the same DNA ideologically...