The Established Religion of America
Mar 28, 2017 15:02:11 GMT -6
Post by Todd on Mar 28, 2017 15:02:11 GMT -6
Our culture is in decline because it has abandoned or compromised its Christian heritage. One of the clearest, yet totally unquestioned, examples of such compromise is the change in old organizations for children and the character of the new ones. Look, for example, at the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of America. They have jettisoned Christian positions for Secular Humanism. And Boys and Girls Club was born into secular humanism. We have, at the expense of the government and private charity organizations, adopted and established the religion of Secular Humanism. And our abandonment of Christianity has left our country a moral ruin. And there is not, so far as I can tell, a single voice saying “no” to Secular Humanism.
Perhaps this seems inconsequential. Perhaps it would seem a tempest in a teapot. We do not force our Children into the scouts. But how much Christianity is visible to them in Boys and Girls club? On the Children's show Caillou? How about Disney? How about anywhere you choose to look in the public sector? The typical reaction might be something along the line of "so what?" These entities are not in the business of purveying Christianity, or in any way showing favoritism to one religion or another. They are, after all, neutral, or attempt to be so.
And therein lies the problem. For although these entities appear to be secular, and we often think of secular as "value-neutral," they are really no such thing. Because beneath the surface of all these ideas we view as value-neutral lies the naturalism and utopianism of Secular Humanism. Secular Humanism is not a single school of thought, but it does foster a single, pervasive attitude. It is not an organization with a single agenda to push, but an array of beliefs either directly opposed to Christian morality, or minimally egalitarian and syncretisc with regard to what is not Christian. It is not a program so much as a description of the way Humanists think things ought to be, and increasingly are becoming.
We feel that Christian schools brainwash students. We don't realize that to a large extent, all children are "brainwashed" by their exposure to anything at all. They have not the critical faculties to weigh and assess what they hear, either in Christian school or while watching Caillou. Teaching presented in a favorable way to those without well developed critical skills unavoidably creates in them a predisposition to such teaching. So long as this predisposition is not countered, it will almost certainly culminate in a worldview. That, in fact, is why we cannot see the threat of Secular Humanism. We erroneously believe it to be "value neutral."
For an explanation of Secular Humanism, its founding fathers, and its philosophy, see the Web Site (For those who like to read > Battle Lines > America's Established Religion.
- Todd
Perhaps this seems inconsequential. Perhaps it would seem a tempest in a teapot. We do not force our Children into the scouts. But how much Christianity is visible to them in Boys and Girls club? On the Children's show Caillou? How about Disney? How about anywhere you choose to look in the public sector? The typical reaction might be something along the line of "so what?" These entities are not in the business of purveying Christianity, or in any way showing favoritism to one religion or another. They are, after all, neutral, or attempt to be so.
And therein lies the problem. For although these entities appear to be secular, and we often think of secular as "value-neutral," they are really no such thing. Because beneath the surface of all these ideas we view as value-neutral lies the naturalism and utopianism of Secular Humanism. Secular Humanism is not a single school of thought, but it does foster a single, pervasive attitude. It is not an organization with a single agenda to push, but an array of beliefs either directly opposed to Christian morality, or minimally egalitarian and syncretisc with regard to what is not Christian. It is not a program so much as a description of the way Humanists think things ought to be, and increasingly are becoming.
We feel that Christian schools brainwash students. We don't realize that to a large extent, all children are "brainwashed" by their exposure to anything at all. They have not the critical faculties to weigh and assess what they hear, either in Christian school or while watching Caillou. Teaching presented in a favorable way to those without well developed critical skills unavoidably creates in them a predisposition to such teaching. So long as this predisposition is not countered, it will almost certainly culminate in a worldview. That, in fact, is why we cannot see the threat of Secular Humanism. We erroneously believe it to be "value neutral."
For an explanation of Secular Humanism, its founding fathers, and its philosophy, see the Web Site (For those who like to read > Battle Lines > America's Established Religion.
- Todd