Secular Humanism
Bill Lockwood
Humanism is not a reference to humanitarian treatment of persons and/or animals. It is regrettably the current predominant
philosophy of American educational life and the demonical religion sponsored and enforced by the government.
Humanism: a Religion
In 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court cited humanism as a religion in the case of Torasco v. Watkins. Roy Torcaso, a humanist
living in Maryland, had refused to declare his belief in Almighty God, which was required by state law for him to be
commissioned as a notary public. The Court ruled that requirement for such an oath "invades appellant's freedom of belief and
religion" (AFA Journal, March '91, p. 6). Especially noteworthy was the footnote appended to the legal decision: "Among
religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical
Culture, secular humanism, and others."
The Humanist Manifestos I and II continually assert that the signers are seeking to propagate a religion to replace the
"outmoded" faith in God and "belief in the Bible" idea.
Its Tenets
Based upon the nonsensical notion that mankind needs a new vision for a new age, the mawkish Manifestos (1933, 1973)
stated:
-Religious humanists regarded the universe as self-existing and not
created.
-Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization
are the product of a gradual development.
-Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by
modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural ...
-Salvationism ... appears as harmful, diverting people with false
hopes of heaven hereafter. Reasonable minds look to other
means for survival.
-We believe ... that traditional dogmatic or authoritative religions
that place revelation, God, ritual, or creed above human
needs and experience do a disservice to the human species....
We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a
supernatural being. As non-theists, we begin with humans,
not God, nature not deity.
-Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are
both illusory and harmful.
-Science affirms that the human species is an emergence from
natural evolutionary forces.
-Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing not theological or
ideological sanction.
-The many varieties of sexual exploration should not in themselves
be considered "evil."
Its Effects
To say that our society has been radically revolutionized by such crinkled and cross-eyed concepts is to state it fairly. One
of the confessed goals of secular humanism, according to the dastardly declaration they style "manifesto," is: "The separation of
church and state and the separation of ideology and state" while conniving for a "new world order" in which "national
sovereignty" is sacrificed for the structuring of a "one-world government." Remember that humanism is classified by the
Government and by themselves as a religion. At the American Humanist Awards ceremony they boasted that they have
"conquered the entire public school system for Humanism."
If the reader will pause to reflect a moment, it will not be difficult to discover the incredible success that humanists have had
in implementation of their dream. "Values Clarification" is practiced in many public school systems whereby "educators now
perceive their job to be the complete 'resocialization' of the child - the complete reshaping of his values, beliefs, and morals"
(Robert Webber, Secular Humanism, p. 83).
Test scores from school children continue dipping, the National Education Association cries for more money, and all the
while the goal of the NEA and Federal Government is to revolutionize the child's sense of morality and national pride. Public
education is fat evolving from an instructor in basic learning skill, to a humanist indoctrination project.
Sex Education has obtruded its way into public education in spite of the urgent protest by parents. The New York City
school board stepped further than that as they voted dispense free condoms to their 260,000 H>S> students - without parental
consent (Washington Education Report, Tim LaHaye, March '91. p. 4). Of course, every Christian knows that such topics
involved in this are parental responsibility, not public. It seems that the only observable effects that sex education by schools has
on youngsters is to heighten curiosity into exploration.
Evolution is the foundation of American education and is the contraband smuggled to your child in grade school. This is
partly because of the foolish and daffy thinking whereby the government now sees its task as freeing persons from religion, not
maintaining a persons freedom to practice it. Let the reader also recall that school sponsored prayer, reading or displaying the
Bible, or mentioning God's name is "unconstitutional." An 11-year-old girl, a student in a talented program, was assigned to
write on the topic of "Power." She wrote on the "Power of God." The teacher forbade her from reading the report publicly and
humiliated the girl before her peers (Wash. Ed. Report, p. 4).
The popular but disgraceful humanistic maladies can be verified endlessly as the godless mobs wish to disfranchise and
burglarize the American populace of any semblance of God. It is not a time for increased TV viewing, funny paper pondering,
and general lollygagging in our pleasure-filled lives. Nor is it the hour to teach, somewhat as Ezekiel puts it, "A sissified gospel"
of feel-goodism which refuses to attack the problems at hand. By so doing, the god of this wicked world is blinding the eyes of
our understanding from the eternal issues which will determine the course of our children's world. <>