change that arrives with lightning speed. There is little interest in history, which is seen as boring and the domain of dusty scholars who are lost in the maze of the past. One cultural critic agonized over this state of affairs by concluding that the Westerner’s view and scope of history does not precede breakfast! In reality, the ahistorical worldview is one consequence of postmodernism, post-Christian thinking, and deconstructionism. The dismissal of history is a core part of deconstructionism,
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