Let's take a brief look at these five worldviews. This is classic pantheism, and gives birth to a panorama of idolatry as evidenced in the Far East. Progress and development is thus discouraged, and the result is poverty and backwardness. The Moslem religion has generally a low view of man, and believers are encouraged to subjugate, convert, and even exterminate unbelievers as an act of worship to Allah. There is little individual conscience and human rights here.
Women are inferior to men, and thus become exploited as in the Western playboy philosophy.
This idea carries over into the Islamic idea of the world, which is also a plaything to be exploited and not developed. For this reason, most Moslem nations are poor and undeveloped, and would be, if it were not for oil, the most impoverished nations on earth. The Institutional Church - This primarily Catholic view of Christianity teaches that the Church is the mystical link between God the Creator and His creation. As the source of God's revelation on earth, only the Church can accurately interpret God's ways and designs in history. This idea tends to produce a hierarchy or class system among men, with a class of priests, bishops, and pope giving leadership at the top.