Metallica By Van Sloten: A Philosophical Analysis

themselves in ways they may not have within differing circumstances. Less than forty-eight hours ago, I noticed a post which revealed an alarming indicator of the reformational perspective of interaction between the Christian faith and secular society. Someone posed the question, “Why is it okay for games to go into overtime, but if church goes over, then it is not?” Someone replied by saying, “Because they operate in entirely different spheres of our culture. Apples and oranges here, bud.” Such a response represents how reformational frameworks like sphere sovereignty can be misconstrued into a dissonance between faith and secular society. However, the opposite issue can also be seen in today’s Millennials when the spiritual and the spiritual become lenient with each other. The reformational perspective can provide a good philosophical framework for Christian faith within a secular society. However, drawing off of the convictions of my first paper for this class, the non-Christian Platonic philosophies can also provide a good framework. Drawing off of Van Sloten’s book, secular entities like Metallica, as well as atheistic philosophies like Nietzsche’s …show more content…
Kenda Dean would differ, saying that issue is of an ecclesiastical consequence of those influencing the millennials rather than the fault of the millennials themselves. Nearly every sphere of culture affects the way millennials experience belief in God, from friends and family, media and government, to the atmosphere of the location in which they live. What presents itself as an unfortunate event in the lived experience of an individual could either destroy their conditions of belief or provide a hope amidst the hopelessness, as portrayed in the film No Country for Old