The War of Ideas

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
2 Corinthians 10:3-6

The Silent War
War is a fact of life. Beyond the physical fighting that takes place in the world there is a much more important, yet seemingly silent war that rages at the root of every physical conflict. It is the war of ideas, worldviews, ideologies, etc. Postmodernism has recently rose up as one of the dominating worldviews in American society. It's celebration of disorder manifests itself through music, the media, movies, and the like. Postmodernism also asserts that truth is unobtainable on a grand scale. Little truths are created by social constructs or the culture one occupies. This presents a problem to those who believe in an overarching story that prescribes absolute truth such as those that adhere to Christianity. How should Christians respond to or deal with the crisis of postmodernity?

Truth Warriors
As 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 explains, Christians are in a war against the philosophies and pretensions that set themselves up against the Truth of the Word of God. It is clear that Postmodernism is such a philosophy. In combating the philosophy of Postmodernism, Christians ought to gain an adequate knowledge of Postmodernism. If a Christian individual knows little to nothing about the ideas of the age it would make it harder to really go after the chinks in armor of Postmodernism. Christians should also be actively sharing the Truth of God's Word in a loving manner to those who they may come to know. Online forums and other means of argument are also useful. Christians also need to remember that there not trying to beat the truth into anybody. God is the only one that can deal directly with the heart. Christians jsut need to be faithful in arguing and present the Truth so that the Holy Spirit might move in thier life and show them the error in their worldview. Arguments that deal with the Moral Law, as C.S. Lewis presents are good to use in an argument against a relativistic Postmodern. The main thing is to do this in a loving matter knowing that we were once in darkness (and still tend to run there every so often), but are now in the light of God's glory. Let's be Truth warriors that fight the epic and widespread war against the strongholds that set themselves up against the knowledge of God.