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[[File:Wexner Center.JPG|thumbnail|200px|right|The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University was the first postmodern architecture building.<ref>[https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/2014/01/13/ravi-zacharias-on-postmodern-architecture-at-ohio-state/ Ravi Zacharias on Postmodern Architecture at Ohio State]</ref> The architect of the first postmodern building said that he designed it with no design in mind.<ref>[https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/2014/01/13/ravi-zacharias-on-postmodern-architecture-at-ohio-state/ Ravi Zacharias on Postmodern Architecture at Ohio State]</ref> See: [[Atheism and architecture]] ]]
 
[[File:Wexner Center.JPG|thumbnail|200px|right|The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University was the first postmodern architecture building.<ref>[https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/2014/01/13/ravi-zacharias-on-postmodern-architecture-at-ohio-state/ Ravi Zacharias on Postmodern Architecture at Ohio State]</ref> The architect of the first postmodern building said that he designed it with no design in mind.<ref>[https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/2014/01/13/ravi-zacharias-on-postmodern-architecture-at-ohio-state/ Ravi Zacharias on Postmodern Architecture at Ohio State]</ref> See: [[Atheism and architecture]] ]]
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'''Postmodernism''' is an [[antichristian]],<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=TLHM6mM1KkYC John F. MacArthur, "Think Biblically!"]</ref> far-left, 20th century [[worldview]] and [[academic]] movement characterized by denial of objective truth, and which [[stolen concept|asserts]] that assertions of [[objectivity|objective]] knowledge are essentially impossible.   
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'''Postmodernism''' is an [[antichristian]],<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=TLHM6mM1KkYC John F. MacArthur, "Think Biblically!"]</ref> far-left, late 20th century [[worldview]] and [[philosophical]] movement which denies objective truth, and asserts that [[objectivity|objective]] knowledge is  impossible.   
    
The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[Norman Geisler]] wrote about postmodernism: "In short, the root of Post-modernism is [[atheism]] and the fruit of it is [[relativism]] — relativism in every area of life and thought."<ref>[http://normangeisler.com/a-response-to-philosophical-postmodernism-2/ A Response to Philosophical Postmodernism] by [[Norman Geisler|Norman L. Geisler]]</ref> Atheists played a significant role in terms of postmodernist leadership and its following (see: [[Atheism and critical thinking#Atheism, postmodernism and a lack of critical thinking|Postmodernism and atheists]]). Furthermore, Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel note in their book ''Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews'' that "The [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] actually lists postmodernism as a subset of atheism."<ref>Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews By Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel, page 192 (endnote section)</ref> See also: [[Atheism and postmodernism]]
 
The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[Norman Geisler]] wrote about postmodernism: "In short, the root of Post-modernism is [[atheism]] and the fruit of it is [[relativism]] — relativism in every area of life and thought."<ref>[http://normangeisler.com/a-response-to-philosophical-postmodernism-2/ A Response to Philosophical Postmodernism] by [[Norman Geisler|Norman L. Geisler]]</ref> Atheists played a significant role in terms of postmodernist leadership and its following (see: [[Atheism and critical thinking#Atheism, postmodernism and a lack of critical thinking|Postmodernism and atheists]]). Furthermore, Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel note in their book ''Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews'' that "The [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] actually lists postmodernism as a subset of atheism."<ref>Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews By Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel, page 192 (endnote section)</ref> See also: [[Atheism and postmodernism]]
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The term "postmodernism" comes from the causal relationship the movement has to [[modernism]], rather than a temporal relationship.  Both movements coexist today.
 
The term "postmodernism" comes from the causal relationship the movement has to [[modernism]], rather than a temporal relationship.  Both movements coexist today.
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Some postmodernist ideas are:
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Some postmodernist ideas are:{{fact}}
    
* Truth is a "[[social construct]]," rather than objectively provable, and by extension is merely relative.
 
* Truth is a "[[social construct]]," rather than objectively provable, and by extension is merely relative.
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[[Category:Artistic Movements]]
 
[[Category:Artistic Movements]]
 
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