(Charisma) – With the advent of the primacy of postmodernism in the university curricula, there has been a growing loss of meaning and purpose among generations of students. By postmodernism, I am referring to the assertion that there is no metanarrative or absolute truth that we can hang our hats on. Of course, this is nothing new, as we see by the account in the Gospel of John when Jesus told Pontius Pilate that He came to bear witness of the truth and Pilate responded by saying “what is truth”? (John 18:38). The preponderance of postmodernism has resulted in a devaluation of religious narrative, truth, morals, and
boundaries; along with a deconstruction of language, structure, and categories (such as male and female)—leaving in its wake a rise of suicide, depression, and hopelessness (all the fruit of its nihilistic philosophy). By Nihilism I am referring to the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. (Thus, Nihilism involves stripping humanity of the Grand Narrative of Christianity and all the other major religions.) Nihilism also maintains that nothing in the world has a real existence which can also lead to a post-structural order of extreme anti-establishment, anarchy, READ MORE