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The best example of negative scientific materialism I can think of is
Soviet Communism. I also cannot think of any otehr belief system that
produced so much misery and despair on people.
James Mackey
D.V.N.Sarma wrote:
On 12 Oct 2005, at 9:06, Robert B Zannelli wrote:
The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of
the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built.
This presumes that somebody has seen God and made a
comparison of man and God to declare their similarity.
Was man made only in the physical image of God and not the
mental image of God? If he was made in the mental image also of
God then his pursuit of scientific materialism is in tune with God's
thinking.
Such moral relativism was
uncritically adopted by much of the social sciences, and it still
undergirds much
of modern economics, political science, psychology and
sociology.
Materialists also undermined personal responsibility by asserting
that human
thoughts and behaviors are dictated by our biology and
environment.
Morals are always relative. They depend on time, place and
the environment which includes circumstances. How many are
prepared to condemn the cannibalism of the survivors of the Andes
air crash? Or the polyandry in Tibet where women population is
less than that of males and neighboring villages separated by
scores of miles?
The social consequences of materialism have been devastating.
What about the consequences of religious dogma? Are the
consequences of scientific materialism worse than that of religious
dogma?
regards,
Sarma