The philosophical beliefs that support secular humanism is a presumptuous view of trusting in the success of the human species based strictly in the good will of mankind. However this faith in the human genome alone has been largely a fantasy with its repeated dark history and proliferation of evil as characteristic of the human race. Thus the ability for mankind to save himself has proven to be dismal and futile in light of modern history especially with its foundation of an atheistic worldview as a failed attempt to deify mankind as a demigod.\u2028After Word War 1 the atheistic clergy preached a creedal formula to its secular congregation with a gospel or salvation message known as the Humanist Manifesto 1 in which the savior, mankind, was to save and heal themselves which due to the atrocities of World War 2 showed such flattery to be overly optimistic and unrealistic with a need of altering its outlook as a viable answer to solve the world\u2019s problems. Its solution was to offer a\u00a0revision as the magic combination to unlock its efficacy. Yet no matter how many brilliant minds try to break the code as to endorse and subscribe to the program; its\u00a0new and improved formulation could never be the \u201ccure all\u201d as the best lie is mostly true. Also to be able to temporarily reduce or minimize human\u00a0failure is not to completely remove or eliminate its potential to once again flourish as another generation or society may further alter or reject its humanistic value. Even Immanuel Kant saw a need to stabilize morality with an unaltered standard for the survival of society as to at least act as if God (Judeo-Christian) does exist. Therefore based on Kant\u2019s suggestion it seems that an all-sufficient moral agent, instead of the variableness of humanity, could only be the answer\u00a0for mankind\u2019s success, as human intervention regardless of endless revisions, does not prove to be the ultimate solution \u00a0even if it is able to become less erroneous.\u2028With the scriptural revision of\u00a0Manifesto 2 it has lacked the effectual influence to convert the masses as proving to be yet another false prophecy of revelation in failing to be the way, truth, and the life especially as the world continues to backslide in making any real progress towards with an evolutionary humanistic optimism? It is matter of blind faith to say we believe it to work because we want it to work does not necessarily mean that it will work as inconsistent with reality and thus reduced to hopeful and wishful thinking that is not rational nor reasonable in its outlook on life. Thus the myth continues as yet another authoritarian cult in preaching dogmatism to divert people with the false hopes\u00a0of a utopian prospect.\u2028The secular humanists will continue to make changes as to seemingly correct their views but it doesn\u2019t necessitate \u00a0a more effectual solution in resolving the equation as still factoring in the same common denominator of mankind as promoting the wrong answer to the problem without any evidence that these figures will ever amount to a breakthrough\u00a0with its\u00a0human computation. That\u2019s because this view underestimates the human potential for evil in thinking that mankind can be completely tamed and civilized through global socialization, technology and education as a means to altruistically reform as becoming self-actualized as developing a positive human potential through these humanistic self-help gurus as magically transforming this frog into a prince. Though figuratively we can dissect the frog, study and analyze it for further understanding, nonetheless it remains a frog, is a frog, is a frog. One of the foundational supporters of Manifesto 2 was Behaviorist B.F. Skinner who presented his\u00a0theories as manipulating human behavior as treating people more like\u00a0instinctual animals than human agents of free will by\u00a0which\u00a0such experimental\u00a0treatment has only led to limited results instead of creating \u00a0an extensive human paradise to transform society at large. In spite of all this I think it is reasonable to say that mankind has preserved some God-given potential for good as we are imprinted with His image but not to the degree by which we are totally self-sufficient in acting as both the patient and the physician simultaneously as if to always heal ourselves and even with societies best you still have the\u00a0psychiatrist who\u00a0must see his own shrink or a doctor that needs the assistance of another MD and so ultimately in the end I believe healing can really only occur through the outside\u00a0agency and intervention\u00a0of a Divine Healer aside from\u00a0the temporal treatment of our colleagues.\u2028Anyway one of the hypocrisies of their belief system is based in situational ethics as being subjectively relative yet ironically they understand that this view is unlivable or unsustainable as they hold to certain absolute values through their Manifesto bible. This is because moral relativism proves to be a false dichotomy in the same way that one man\u2019s treasure can become another man\u2019s \u00a0trash or \u00a0another person\u2019s good \u00a0can become another individuals evil such as with the genocidal tendencies of ethnic cleansing in which these atheistic regimes have treated people subhumanely as just another animal. So essentially in order to hold to the position of being a pure moral relativist would mean that you couldn\u2019t criticize others under the ideology of Nazism as forcing your own morality as judging them to be immoral and yet intuitively we know that to approve of such behavior would be problematic. Thus the subjectivism of situational ethics would only create problems, as to accommodate one person\u2019s situation could potentiality conflict with another person\u2019s viewpoint\u00a0creating strife, not harmony, and even the utilitarian idealism of the maximum amount of happiness for the maximum amount of people can be ill-defined as potentially disastrous as misused or abused to support such matters as to repeat the modern atrocities of history or at best to silence the minority view. This outlook may at first sound good to others until you become the victim as being ran over by this\u00a0\u201ctrolley problem\u201d. Therefore moral relativism can never be\u00a0a form of self or societal government which would only lead to the lawlessness of\u00a0looting and rioting as mankind is not completely capable nor willing to do unto others what they want others to do unto them as people would rather do what was right in their own eyes. Thus these secular religious beliefs would be largely ineffective especially as there is no absolute authority to ground morality on which at best can only lead to a police state as a form of human government much of what we already have in place as holding people accountable otherwise it would only lead to chaos and anarchy not the prosperity of the human race and therefore you can never divorce yourself entirely from the authority factor whether it be God or human government.\u2028Moreover this open morality has selectively marginalized the main stream religion of Christianity which supports an absolute\u00a0value and therefore its position is largely\u00a0a reactionary and rebellious response against Christianity.\u00a0Yet in spite of this anti-religious stance how ironic is it for this group to plagiarize some of the biblical precepts in adopting them as their own but just to a lesser degree as to\u00a0rewrite their moral law code with a\u00a0permissiveness as making themselves free from the standard of biblical moral beliefs by watering them down. At times it sounds\u00a0like the Bible but without a positive\u00a0reference to God as crediting secular humanists as the supreme being(s).\u2028Again the ploy of this movement is a drive to retain autonomy as avoiding an overarching Supreme Being or Judge which in part has to do with \u00a0its own selfish gain as to exploit life in rebellion against a Holy God apart from merely\u00a0pursuing its humanistic goals towards the betterment of mankind. This can be somewhat exampled as emphasizing their right to sexual freedom in contrast to certain biblical laws and I believe is one of the motivating factors\u00a0that makes this philosophy so alluring as satisfying their sexual appetite with a moral laxity that can\u00a0be defined as consensual in nature. Thus an effort has been made to usurp religion as an act of hostility in attempting to overthrow God \u00a0and if you doubt this motivation than simply ask yourself if God is real would there be an immediate response to embrace Him and \u00a0relinquish control of your life or would you still try to avoid Him at all costs even if it meant to deceptively devise a counterfeit worldview which is what secular humanism has done.\u2028As previously mentioned the behavioral sciences has it limitations which would also include modern scientific technology as failing to be the ultimatum as the agent of enlightenment towards the morality of human evolution as it has become\u00a0more \u00a0sophisticated in performing evil with the dangers of its technological advances as to bring about weapons of mass destruction more so than any other time in human history. Thus technology becomes a double-edged sword with its benefits of forwarding human progress while also having the likely potential to harm life as it is driven by fallible human beings.\u2028Consequently it has been the likes of such religious groups as Christianity that has countered such threats by creating the \u00a0institutions of hospital and orphanages apart from the extermination camps and abortion clinics in serving as the hands of Christ in healing the downtrodden and broken-hearted while atheism, left to itself , has often exacerbated evil.\u2028However, in all fairness, I offer the same criticism against false religion, which in my opinion, is no different from its atheistic opponent and should be opposed and resisted according to its hate crimes. Regarding Christianity, which is the position I support, should likewise be accountable to those who are behaving unbiblically such as a direct participant of either a religious or a secular war outside of what would be defined as \u201cjust warfare\u201d. Essentially those who take such positions may prove to be pseudo believers or at least unfaithful to their Lord. Christendom was never intended to propagate a message of malevolence with its salvific theme of \u201cpeace on earth and good will towards men\u201d and thus there is no justification to support these aberrant beliefs and actions as conflicting with the teachings of the scripture. Thus It would behoove society to accept rather than antagonize authentic Christianity as it brings the message and power of God\u2019s redemption of humanity in changing mankind from the inside out as evidenced by love and peace as bearing the fruits of the Kingdom of God on Earth which should be praised and not grouped in with the ills of religious abuse. Anyway I have written an article as discussing the view of violence within religion in contrast \u00a0to atheism at<\/p>\n
jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/21\/religion-causes-bloodshed\/<\/a><\/p>\n The theory of the secular humanists as outlined in article 7 presents itself as preserving the freedom and dignity of an individual, as supposedly including religious liberty but gives the impression as long as is doesn\u2019t interfere with other people\u2019s interests. I understand the need to honor other people choices but to say that we can\u2019t respectfully challenge others in trying to be a positive biblical influence is an oxymoron to this group who is just as vociferous to share their meta-narrative. Religion often gets bashed for pushing its agenda while secular humanism would bulldoze others with their orthodox beliefs about what is right and wrong in opposition to their religious adversary. Thus one on hand they speak of religion favorably but secretly would rather remove or eradicate certain religions as the final solution in damning them with their bigoted views\u00a0as a duplicity to their standard. In conclusion they want to blame Christianity as being authoritarians but in turn they would like to enforce their vision.\u2028Another matter held by these political atheists, which is particular in America, \u00a0is supporting a misconceived view towards the \u201cseparation of church and state\u201d which is unconstitutional and is a complete twisting and misunderstanding of one of Thomas Jefferson letters of not allowing the state to interfere with church affairs not vise versa. Not only does it want to somehow uproot the Christian faith from American history, in association with many of the founding fathers, but to also rid its influence on modern American Society as forgetting the positive impact of christian influence on America which is plainly dishonest and a deliberate oversight. Anyway to be consistent in this matter it would \u00a0only be fair to say that this should equally apply to their own ideological propaganda beliefs as they should avoid influencing the state with its prejudicial minority view.\u00a0Furthermore to selectively use the word \u201cchurch\u201d in a multicultural society becomes seemingly discriminatory as well in profiling one particular faith.\u2028Favorably speaking this\u00a0movement supports \u00a0such values as human rights and welfare opportunities, equality, recognition, betterment of society, individualism, satisfaction, however this positive concept does not prove to be promising\u00a0as sacrificing oneself on the altar of religious\u00a0atheism for the betterment of mankind contrary to the individualism of the survival of the fittest without regard for the ultimate good of society and this can be coaxed out as in Maslow\u2019s hierarchy in that self-preservation is the king of the hill, not the community, and when it is all said and done the bottom line is that among Atheists there is really only themselves anyway and no other ultimate reality beyond\u00a0me, myself and I. Finally this statement promises the world but I think it will only implode as mostly empty and shallow political words.\u2028Also another great idea they have is expressed in article 9 as the concept of war as being an obsolete solution and yet as you can readily see there is no sign of warfare slowing down as to become extinct with its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as agents of mass destruction which have not, nor will ever, be completely eradicated, and even if they are reduced as buying into the secular humanists diplomacy it is not even realistic in lieu of constant world threats with its oppositional motif of \u201cmight makes right\u201d as settling disputes through military presence or action as laughing in the face as to ridicule the sweet talk of negotiation and compromise. The whole dilemma to this favorable secular humanist platform is that it is structured and supported by atheism which in the past has only proven to use military force and action for the non compliant as a means to the end to oppress as to kill and maim societies the likes of which they say they really want to help.\u2028Another credible position that they have is to overcome world poverty as establishing an economic socialism but this too has never proved to work in the past as it only ends up with two classes of individuals in dividing the wealthy\/powerful from that of the lower class who have a\u00a0carrot dangled in front of them to keep them motivated as trudging along but never being able to reach the prize.\u00a0After all will the wealthy and powerful freely abandon their luxury for the sake of this idealism as willingly give up their riches for the poor? There is a reason why they are rich\u00a0\u00a0and they intend on keeping it this way as they have stacked the deck in their favor as\u00a0holding all the cards. \u00a0Even the efforts of sending outside assistance to these poor counties has often proved unsuccessful as these resources have been intercepted and the funds misappropriated.\u2028Lastly another one of their popular ideas \u00a0is the concept of a new world order with a global government which may prove to be no more successful than the limited efforts of the UN. Yet if mankind is the truly the measure of all things then why should we even need such\u00a0governing powers\u00a0as it would seem that humanity or society should \u00a0naturally evolve as developing their own moral potential for excellence.\u2028Finally even if the secular humanist was to succeed with\u00a0a better model I think the concept of a utopian age apart from the future reign of Christ; is just a man-made Tower of Babel that in time will crash down as yet needing another support system to prop up its wrecked structure of belief with its replacement theology of an antichrist figure.\u2028In conclusion secular humans as a vehicle to reach paradise would best be re-routed to the bunker of a doomsday prepper as driving this course down this\u00a0human path will only lead to multiple setbacks as running out of gas, breakdowns, carjackings and finally human wreckage along this hazardous roadway in life as sadly leading to nowhere in failing to reach its final destination apart from God. <\/p>\n Atheist and Agnostic Resources<\/a><\/p>\n English Articles on Atheism and Agnosticism<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Holy Bible, English Standard Version\u00ae (ESV\u00ae)\u2028Copyright \u00a9 2001 by Crossway,\u2028a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.\u2028All rights reserved.\u2028ESV Text Edition: 2007 The philosophical beliefs that support secular humanism is a presumptuous view of trusting in the success of the human species based strictly in the good will of mankind. 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\nRevelation 21:1-5<\/strong>
\n21\u00a0Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2\u00a0And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3\u00a0And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, \u201cBehold, the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.[c] 4\u00a0He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.\u201d
\n5\u00a0And he who was seated on the throne said, \u201cBehold, I am making all things new.\u201d Also he said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHow to know God<\/a><\/p>\n
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