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Existentialism 2

Existentialism is one of the fastest growing worldviews in the world. Its new age ideas and down to earth thinking makes it very easy to follow, but as with all world views there are obvious flaws which cannot be hidden. Christianity expresses extremely different views to those of Existentialism. I find, and most of my peers also would find, that Existentialism is a very pessimistic worldview, and gives nothing for people to hope for and look forward to.
First of all one of the main problems with this view is that nothing really matters. With the constant changing of attitudes of people, technology and fashion trends, which existentialists tend to follow, one must ask, what is the point ...

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reality in its totality. For the same reasons, the traditional opposition between subject and object, or between the self and the nonself, loses all sense. Dasein is always particular and individual. It is always a self; but it is also always a project of the world that includes the self, determining or conditioning its modes of being.”
This worldview is very different from a Christian worldview. Virtually ever aspect it differs from the views displayed by the Christian religion. First of all, in the Christian religion God is the greatest, he made everything and is our father, he has ultimate power over us but has taken the position of a teacher to guide us out of sin. But in Existentialism the world and the universe are the greatest, although this view does not address the fact of how we got here or where we go next, they say that everything just flows like a river and we should be a leaf and just go with it.

The aspect of what we are is also addressed differently by ...

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Added: 10/25/2004 05:26:05 PM
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