Strip clubs v. Darwinism.(spiritual and physical materialism)
From: National Review
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Date: 2/23/1998
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Author: Klinghoffer, David
Materialism can mean buying a $23,000 Rolex. But in a philosophical context it means a world view where only material reality counts, an outlook which denies that human existence has a spiritual component, and certainly denies the religious outlook in which existence is all spirit with material reality thrown in mainly to confuse us. Two famous examples of materialism in ideological form are Marxism and Darwinism, both of which maintain that ultimately life can be explained in terms ...
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