Understanding the Times Ch.18 True/False

Question 1

New Spirituality: evolution emphasizes a biological progression not a spiritual progression.

Accepted Answer

False: spiritual progression not a biological

Question 2

To be a Secularist means to admit to nothing higher than man.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Deconstruction says that the reader’s interpretation is more importantthan the author’s intent.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

New Spiritualists: we can permanently free ourselves from self through achieving enlightenment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

According to the Christian worldview, God reveals only his law, not himself.

Accepted Answer

False: Islamic

Question 6

New Spirituality: more enlightened a person is, the more money and success he or she will have.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Postmodernism accepts the notion of universal moral norms.

Accepted Answer

False: rejects

Question 8

Islam does not label greed, selfishness, gluttony, and materialism assins.

Accepted Answer

False: does

Question 9

New Spiritualists: personal transformation is the key to political transformation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

According to New Spirituality, the heart of society’s problem is economic inequality.

Accepted Answer

False: ignorance of higher consciousness

Question 11

According to New Spirituality, consciousness is energy that we can connect to, harness, and use

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

According to Postmodernists, all historical accounts are fiction.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

The Quran describes the universe as unordered.

Accepted Answer

False: as finely ordered

Question 14

There is no division of ethics and law in Islam.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

According to Secularism, human beings are inherently good; it is society that makes us bad.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

A worldview is like a mental map that tells us how to navigate theworld.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Muslims: the Bible is the only authoritative and uncorrupted scripture preserved without error.

Accepted Answer

False: Quran

Question 18

Secularism believes that religion should have an influence on educationand government.

Accepted Answer

False: should not have

Question 19

Marxists see the march toward socialism and eventually capitalism as a historical inevitability

Accepted Answer

False: communism

Question 20

Marxist theory of psychology, human beings can be conditioned to do good and advance communism.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

According to New Spirituality, there is no difference between creationand the creator.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The task of Christian ethics is to determine what conforms to God’s character and what does not

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Secularism’s view for government is progressive and utopian.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Muslims believe every human being is born a Muslim in a state of rebellion to Allah.

Accepted Answer

False: submission

Question 25

For Marx, the war against capitalism was also a war against religion.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Marxism: proletariat laws must be overthrown and replaced with laws favoring the bourgeoisie.

Accepted Answer

False: bourgeoisie laws go, replaced by laws for proletariat

Question 27

The political goal of Islam is to establish a global Islamic theocracy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

The god of New Spirituality is not a separate person with identifiableattributes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

According to Christianity, God is not a force to be used but a person to be known.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Karl Marx advocated for a peaceful transition to communism.

Accepted Answer

False: a forcible revolution

Question 31

Christians: common ethical systems cultures = evidence of a universal law, universal lawgiver.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

According to Postmodernism, our words describe reality.

Accepted Answer

False: our interpretation of reality

Question 33

In Islam, there are no boundaries between the institutions of family, church, and state.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Marx: if evolution provides hardier species, sociological evolution could provide better state

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Guiding principle of Secular psychology is that everything must beexplained by material causes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

According to the Christian view of metaphysics, matter came before mind.

Accepted Answer

False: after matter

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