We live in a society dominated by a philosophy of change, a
departure from human values, and the rise of anti-
authoritarianism. We hear “post” frequently in terms such as
post-Christian, post-liberal, and post-conservative; this is
also a time of globalism and neo-paganism. Philosophers call the
philosophy of this age Postmodernism. Before we look at just
what this movement is all about, and how it affects each of us
today, a little history is appropriate.  Premodernism was the
worldview (whether people understood it as such or not)
dominated by authority (in the West this authority was the
Catholic Church) and a respect for that authority. It routinely
included a belief in a deity and man’s responsibility toward
that deity. Angels and demons, the miraculous, and the spiritual
were an assumed part of life.  Modernism followed. With the
Enlightenment of the 17th century came the rejection of the
authority of tradition in favor of human reason and natural
science. The autonomous human was the source of meaning