Humanism Is All Around You

What are the effects of humanism in your everyday life?  How does it affect our society and you personally? 

Remember when I said Humanism is a religion?  Consider the following from the Humanist Manifesto I:

Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.

The first Manifesto talked of a new "religion", and referred to Humanism as a religious movement to transcend and replace previous religions based on allegations of supernatural revelation.

Among the oft-quoted lines from the 1973 Manifesto are, "No deity will save us; we must save ourselves," and "We are responsible for what we are and for what we will be, both of which may present difficulties for members of certain Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sects, or other believers in doctrines of submission to the will of an all-powerful God.”

So, pervading our society are people who want to impose their godless religion on you.  Who are they and how do they go about their goal?  I'll cite some books about this later, but for now here are a few examples.

John Dewey, (1859-1952), a designer and signer of the Humanist Manifesto, was considered the father of modern education and had a profound effect on our school system.  He is quoted as saying, “Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.”  Wow!   His influence on the NEA (National Educational Assoc.) is one reason that homeschooling is highly discouraged, if not declared illegal in some places.  The idea is that parents, in their many differing home conditions, do not have the ability or the knowledge to educate their own children.  They hold that the government has the expertise and system to properly educate your children.  The problem that must be asked is:  Just who controls the government’s teaching methods and are those methods in conjunction with Christian principles and the purposes of our founding fathers?  Be assured that within the curriculum of most public schools there exists a humanist approach to teach pupils (your and my children) humanistic principles along with humanist oriented books to learn from.  While they educate your kids, they want to fill their pliable minds with anti-God principles and make little humanists out of them.  Please go to the website: http://www.christianparents.com/jdewey.htm to get an excellent presentation on this subject.

 

In the library are children’s books on dinosaurs.  The pictures and total presentation is excellent and children love to look at them.  By far the books present evolutionary humanism.  They present as absolute fact that dinosaurs lived some 250 million years ago and probably became extinct from the effects of a huge meteorite that exploded on the earth (or some such catastrophe).  Now, if they presented these highly imaginative ideas as story book fairy tales it would be more acceptable – but they don’t.  Let me impress you with the fact that virtually all of the books you buy in bookstores on this or similar historical subjects present this same, unscientific, story book, humanistic indoctrination.  By the way, in those same books you will find classic pictures of how today’s humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, who in turn evolved over untold millions of years from a cell in the slime of some ocean – ideas that have absolutely no basis in scientific fact.  We will explore this subject more completely in later blogs. 

In my doctor’s office the other day, I chanced upon a magazine that presented a number of wondrous places in the world.  One of them was the Grand Canyon in the state of Arizona.  The accompanying explanation noted matter of factly how marvelous it was that the canyon was carved so grandly over millions of years by the Colorado River.  Really now!!  Just where did they get that fantastic information?   I’ll tell you – from humanist evolutionists that decided, without any scientific evidence, that it is simply “the only logical explanation.”.   Why all these vast millions of years for dinosaurs, humans, and vast gorges to develop?  Simply because the religion of evolutionary humanism wants you to believe that you materialistically evolved and were not created by the God of the universe.  They don’t believe in God and they don’t want you to either.  It’s that simple.

The humanistic strategy even reaches into your children’s TV programs.  My 4 year old grandson loves “Dinosaur Train”, an excellently presented series of stories where cartoon animated dinosaurs frolic around with their different tales (no pun intended).  In between tales suddenly up pops a young man, the program’s “paleontologist”, to present the various “facts” about the dinosaurs.  Not only are the “facts” highly questionable but – here we go again – the dinosaurs lived untold millions of years ago in some geologic period (I "mute" the TV at that point)  Again I ask, “where did they get that information”? 

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Reich Minister Of Propaganda said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This indeed was a shrewd and mentally twisted man, but there is enough validity in his statement to make anyone who uses it very dangerous.

 

I urge you to develop the ability to analyze, scrutinize, and even question what you hear and read.  Check things out to see if they are true or not.  My next blog will talk about this subject.