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Now that we are past the election, please consider some important facts about our country.
1.  We really are a Red America (Republicans) and Blue America (Democrats).  We are divided.  The popular vote showed Barack Obama had 62,611,250  votes to Mitt Romney’s 59,134,475.
2.  7 out of 10 Democrats say the economy is getting better while nearly 6 in 10 Republicans say it is getting worse.
3.  38% of voters blamed Obama for the poor economy, while 53% blamed George W. Bush.  This was one of the most significant factors in the outcome of the election.
4.  In Maryland, voters cast ballots for tolerance.  They upheld a same-sex marriage law, approved in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, and embraced a major expansion of casino gambling.  Voters in Minnesota rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.  Nationally, 49 percent of voters wanted their states to recognize same-sex marriage and 46 percent were opposed.
5.  The country is changing.  Twenty years ago, 87 percent of the electorate was white.  Today (2012), only 72 percent was white.
6.  93% of the black vote went for Obama.
The United States is a divided country.  We are divided ideologically, morally, and spiritually.  There are now many different views of reality.  What has happened?  Can anyone argue that we have changed from a biblical worldview to a postmodern worldview?  The way God defines reality and the way a postmodern defines reality are two very distinct viewpoints.  God’s Word is truth (John 17:17).  God’s Word liberates men from servitude to sin (John 8:32).  Freedom in Christ is true freedom.  Postmoderns define truth in a totally different way.  Rather than anchoring truth in an objective standard of righteousness, postmoderns create their own reality and so create their own truth.  This makes truth for them totally subjective.  The term “spin” has become a good way of describing the process of creating one’s own reality.  Words are redefined and set in a different grammatical context in order to produce new meaning.  Through this process, one can alter reality to fit one’s personal objectives.  Many people are totally unaware that this is happening, but it is a strong force for social change.
There are four major tenets of postmodernism.  The first is secularization.  This is the process whereby God is replaced with man.  Humanism and materialism increase and dominate the American mind.  The second is privatization.  This is the process whereby God is replaced with self.  Personal preferences serve to validate individual behavior.  What I want or what I like trumps anything God says.  The third is pluralization.  This is the process by which the number of opinions in the private sphere of modern society multiplies at all levels, especially at the level of world views, faiths, and ideologies.  This view holds that all convictions about values are of equal validity, which says in effect that no convictions about values have any validity.  There is no right or wrong.  If there is no right or wrong, then there is no basis for judgment and all judgments are suspended.  The fourth is relativization.  Seven in ten Americans now believe there is no such thing as absolute truth.  There are no set truths.  There are no eternal principles.  In relativism, everything is subjective.
The postmodern mindset and the biblical worldview are in conflict.  This may not explain all of our differences as a nation, but it explains, to a large degree, why we are so divided.