A worldview represents one’s understanding of reality. This understanding can either correspond to reality or deny reality. False worldviews have an inevitable tendency to either collide (sometimes violently) with other worldviews, or implode. Some of the major conflicts in our culture represent worldviews in collision: i.e., between naturalism and supernaturalism, between atheism and theism, between freedom and terrorism, between purity and promiscuity, between a binary view of gender and a nonbinary view, or between abortion and the right to life. Virtually all the turmoil, anger and rage currently manifesting in our culture is the result of worldviews in violent collision or imploding.

Worldviews represent a blueprint for living. Holding a false worldview (one that does not correspond to reality) is a sure-fire guarantee for serious problems. Many people fail to work out the full implications of their inherent worldview. An effective strategy in apologetics is to help people see where their worldview ultimately leads by helping them drive their worldview to its logical conclusion. Often, people are unwilling to follow their worldview to its logical conclusion and instead live a life of conflict; an example would be someone holding a naturalist worldview and yet insisting that objective moral good exists (a contradiction.)

“When a worldview fails to account for all of reality, what do adherents do? Do they say, “I guess my theory has been falsified; I’d better toss it out”? Most people do not give up that easily. Instead they suppress the things that their worldview cannot explain, walling them off into a conceptual area separate from reality—an upper story of useful fictions. Wish fulfillment. Illusions.” — Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes by Nancy Pearcey

“Moral chaos should come as no surprise to anyone who acknowledges the deep connection between the worldview of a culture and its moral beliefs and behaviors. The shift from a Judeo-Christian worldview to an atheistic, naturalistic one is what lies behind much of the moral chaos we now face. In April of 1986, Steven Muller, the president of Johns Hopkins University, got it right when he warned that our crisis in moral values is due largely to the loss of a Judeo-Christian worldview and its replacement with secularism and naturalism.” — The God Question: An Invitation to a Life of Meaning by J. P. Moreland

Part of the goal of evangelism is to free people from the power of false worldviews by identifying where they fail to stack up against reality. All worldviews other than Christian Theism, will always have at least one fatal flaw that if followed logically to conclusion, will inevitably cause the worldview to self-destruct. However, false worldviews often have significant elements of truth which is what makes them appealing (i.e. there is much in naturalism that is true).

The widespread denial of truth and increasing irrationality has left people without hope. As a result, people have made desires the decisive factor in formulating and adopting a worldview——i.e., their worldview is centered on whatever is pleasurable to them.

Our grasp of reality changes through time. Ideally, it becomes more reflective of reality. But it can also become more delusional. The terminal event in a false worldview is implosion. Implosion occurs when reality violently intrudes, shattering fundamentaL precepts espoused by the worldview. Sometimes worldview implosion can be a calm disintegration; sometimes it can be quite violent. An example would be a young woman who is an adherent of Christian Science which asserts that evil is an illusion——who is then violently raped. Evil turns her worldview upside down as she is faced with acknowledging one of two things: either hold steadfast onto her faulty worldview and deny the evil nature of her rape . . . or admit the reality of evil with the resulting implosion of her worldview. Worldview implosion represents the powerful disintegration of one’s understanding of reality with one of two possible results: (1) the adaption of fundamental changes to the imploding worldview to try and salvage it or migration to a different worldview to adapt a different understanding of reality, or (2) descent into insanity (denial of reality).

Tne culture is witnessing a cascade of worldview implosions accompanied by rage and demonic delusion. A frightening example is the descent of transgenders into insanity as their worldview implodes, explaining the high suicide rates. There is a direct correlation between the encroaching cultural darkness as false worldviews increasingly implode, and the abandonment of the gospel. But the light of the gospel has the power to drive back the darkness and restore sanity.

Luke 8:35 – “Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.”

2 Cor 4:4 – “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel”

Freedom awaits those who trapped in darkness but are willing to embrace the gospel.