Posted on 10/09/2005 11:42:04 AM PDT by wagglebee
Following a week-end attending a Worldview Conference, I came home with my mind full of the many directions we have taken since we first became a sovereign nation based on Godly principles.
It is very easy to see the forces coming against our nation and many of them are coming from within...and we have given them our permission.
If other worldviews are to flourish, it is imperative that the Christian Heritage of our nation be destroyed. I brought home numerous books and pieces of information and as I read through them, it is not difficult to see how Christianity has been removed from our nation, beginning in the classroom.
I purchased The New-England Primer, which has been reprinted by David Barton’s Wallbuilders organization. It was the primer used in Boston schools in 1777.
Brilliant drawings and illustrations were used as part of the teaching of the alphabet:
A. In Adam’s Fall; We sinned all
B. Heaven to find; The Bible Mind.
C. Christ crucify’d; For sinners dy’d.
D. The Deluge drown’d; The Earth around.
E. Elijah hid; By Ravens fed.
F. The judgment made; Felix afraid.
In the book, A Lesson for Children, we find:
Pray to God.
Love God.
Fear God.
Take not God’s name in vain
Cheat not in your play
Play not with bad boys
Love your School
Speak the Truth
Be not a Dunce
The whole primer is made up of lessons for life and “The Assembly of Divines.” Their teachings were based on the Bible.
We expect our children to really know about God and His truth by sending them to church one or two hours a week and a big part of that time is “entertainment.” We send them to schools funded by citizens’ tax dollars, but they are under the control of the NEA and ACLU. Schools where they are told God can not be mentioned and prayer must be evil because it is forbidden.
We then wonder why our nation has been dumbed down with no respect for our sovereign God, the Constitution, our Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. We find our history books have been distorted. Much of the curriculum is long on fiction and short on truth.
Secular Humanism is a worldview religion with its own Manifesto. It has had a stronghold on the minds of our youth for decades. The following comes from A Humanist Manifesto (1933):
The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical change in religious beliefs throughout the modern world. The time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes. Science and economic change have disrupted the old beliefs. Religions the world over are under the necessity of coming to terms with new conditions created by a vastly increased knowledge and experience. In every field of human activity, the vital movement is now in the direction of a candid and explicitly humanism. In order that religious humanism may be better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain affirmations which we believe the facts of our contemporary life demonstrate.There is great danger of a final, and we believe fatal, identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods which have lost their significance and which are powerless to solve the problem of humans living in the Twentieth Century.
Although Humanists will deny it is a religion, there can be no doubt that Secular Humanism IS a religion, just as surely as Christianity. What most don’t realize, as Christianity was being removed from the schools, new religions were being introduced. Dr. David Noebel, author of many books on worldviews, reveals in his book Clergy in the Classroom page after page of documentation proving Secular Humanism is a religion - and by their own admission.
Environmentalism is a religion in the form of creature and earth worship above the Creator. We are subjecting our children to many religions, but the one true religion missing is Christianity, the foundation of our sovereign United States.
As we wonder why things are happening and we just can’t understand, we must realize our churches are benign in many areas. There are so few churches preaching the truth and, therefore, they are certainly no threat to what has invaded our nation. Many churches are into teaching more secular humanism than the gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of our youth groups are no more than peer groups led by well meaning, but unqualified leaders.
Kids today have difficulty making moral decisions. Statistics sadly show little difference between divorce rates and other problems in the family among church-goers from the rest of the world. This should not be a surprise, as we have willingly handed over our most valuable investments -- our children -- to un-Christian curriculums, computers and television for training, and sometimes even a major portion of their upbringing.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
Maybe we would see a change in our nation if we went back to the New England Primer and children were taught from early childhood:
If GOD hath given you increase,
And blessed well your store,
Remember you are put in trust
And should relieve the poor.
Beware of foul and filthy lust,
Let such things have no place,
Keep clean your vessels in the LORD
That He may you embrace.
Ye are the temples of the LORD
For you are dearly bought
And they that do defile the same
Shall surely come to nought.
I believe that secular humanism in all of its various forms (socialism, enviornmentalism, eugenics, the culture of death) is tearing apart our society.
Secular humanism ping.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
He forgot to mention flouridation and other attempts to impurify our precious bodily fluids.
Recommended reading: Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship by Paul Vitz ISBN 0802807259
I dont mind people that are "open minded"...just those that are so open-minded that they are closed minded about it.. The type that declare the right to free expression as long it is THEIR free expression, and who insist that the government has full authority to stifle speech to the contrary as "hate-speech."
Why is this funny? I agree with everything in this article, except that the absence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in people's lives, rather than Jesus, is the cause. For only through the graces of His noodly appendages shall one find solace in their life.
Ramen
bump to your post.
There is far too much evidence for strictly belief. One must conclude that secular humanism is extremely detrimental to humans. One might conclude it is deadly. At any rate, it serves mankind better by its absence.
Any philosophy that elevates immediate self indulgence over long term well being of one and one's kindred cannot even begin to be considered as a substitute for Christianity. Well, not unless you are considering suicide for yourself and elimination of the whole human race.
Your message reminded me of somebody's words: "God heals and doctor takes the fee". However, not having any use for elders and the like, I would stick with the doctor, on purely selfish grounds.
Yes....the Founders not only thought so as well, they based our country on it-
of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
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Noah Webster, the man personally responsible for Art. I, Sec. 8, ¶ 8, of the U. S. Constitution, explained two centuries ago:
The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God- the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.
And then there are those who subscribe to the notion that because the Founding Fathers did not specifically cite Judeo-Christian doctrine as a basis for the Constitution, they must not have wanted it, when the truth is that these principles were so intrinsic to their beliefs that they thought any specific reference unnecessary.
Awwww, it's just too bad it's not going away any time soon, isn't it?
Exactly!
Another great misconception is that the Christianity mentioned by the Founders couldn't have anything to do with government because of the 'septation of church and state' clause.
Few people seem to understand that the Christian religion is what PROTECTS the people from government....it doesn't even mean you have to BE Christian, you only have to follow Natural Law!
True enough, but you're simplistically mistaking the lack of religion for hedonism. I don't know of a single atheist or "humanist" who actually behaves that way or bases a worldview on "immediate self indulgence".
Don't mistake your prejudices for reality.
"Enviornmentalism [sic]" is a form of "secular humanism"? Ooookay...
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