FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.
SECOND: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.
THIRD: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
FOURTH: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.
Thus begins the first Humanist Manifesto (1933). With a sweep of their wrists, the humanists dismissed thousands of years of human religious history and decided that they knew better. There is no God, they said. All religion is merely the result of the cultural evolution of the human species. All life on earth is the result of a continuous process of biological evolution.
In 1933, when education guru John Dewey and 33 others signed the Humanist Manifesto, they were casting off what they saw as the outdated chains of established religion. They were forming a religion of their own, one in which man made the ultimate determinations of good and bad, right and wrong. While there have always been atheists and there have always been "religious" people who were ignorant of God's ways, the humanists made a religion of it. They boldly proclaimed that they did not recognize God (or His laws) and took the position that they were capable of using their human reason and intellect to determine morality.
However, rather than using its intellect to find true righteousness, mankind has used it instead to rationalize and justify its evil deeds. As the humanists worked hard to remove the law of God as the moral measuring rod in Western life, they infiltrated the Western education system - from grade school through graduate school. Slowly, society absorbed their way of thinking. Gone were absolute truths. Rather than using its excellent reasoning ability to promote the good, humankind has used it to justify almost any evil action whatsoever.
Not that humanists are generally nasty people. In fact, they can be some of the nicest folks around, dedicated to demonstrating that man can be 'good' without the aid of a deity. The rest of us rotten folks need a Savior, but the humanists, ah, the humanists are capable of recognizing good and evil on their own and of embracing the good. That's what they say, anyway.
However, the natural result of their denying God has been a rationalizing of the limitations that can be put on the value of human life, even in our "civilized" society. Euthanasia, abortion, and genocide have been the result.
Humanists promote evolutionary theory, which teaches us that man is merely an intelligent animal with a conscience. Since man is ultimately an animal, then, he has no more real value than the other animals. Therefore PETA can argue that man has no right to use other animals for food or clothing, and the environmentalists can endanger or kill loggers to "protect" the forests.
It is worth noting that signers of the Humanist Manifesto III (1993) include such folks as Bill Baird, Reproductive (read "abortion") rights pioneer, Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute, an organization advocating extreme population control, and Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute.
While humanism heavily influences education and science and entertainment today, the battle is not over. Growing numbers of parents and educators are combating the constant effort to replace the wisdom of God with the faulty wisdom of man. Several organizations have raised up banners to fight the invasion of humanism by exposing its religious, logical and ethical failures and by stressing the importance of knowing how to defend the Christian worldview. We encourage our readers to educate themselves so that students, young and old, can know how to sanctify the Lord in their hearts and be "ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you," (1 Peter 3:15).
Mankind constantly seeks to save the world through human means, but God has already provided the true answer through His Son.
In 1933, when education guru John Dewey and 33 others signed the Humanist Manifesto, they were casting off what they saw as the outdated chains of established religion. They were forming a religion of their own, one in which man made the ultimate determinations of good and bad, right and wrong. While there have always been atheists and there have always been "religious" people who were ignorant of God's ways, the humanists made a religion of it. They boldly proclaimed that they did not recognize God (or His laws) and took the position that they were capable of using their human reason and intellect to determine morality.
However, rather than using its intellect to find true righteousness, mankind has used it instead to rationalize and justify its evil deeds. As the humanists worked hard to remove the law of God as the moral measuring rod in Western life, they infiltrated the Western education system - from grade school through graduate school. Slowly, society absorbed their way of thinking. Gone were absolute truths. Rather than using its excellent reasoning ability to promote the good, humankind has used it to justify almost any evil action whatsoever.
Not that humanists are generally nasty people. In fact, they can be some of the nicest folks around, dedicated to demonstrating that man can be 'good' without the aid of a deity. The rest of us rotten folks need a Savior, but the humanists, ah, the humanists are capable of recognizing good and evil on their own and of embracing the good. That's what they say, anyway.
However, the natural result of their denying God has been a rationalizing of the limitations that can be put on the value of human life, even in our "civilized" society. Euthanasia, abortion, and genocide have been the result.
Humanists promote evolutionary theory, which teaches us that man is merely an intelligent animal with a conscience. Since man is ultimately an animal, then, he has no more real value than the other animals. Therefore PETA can argue that man has no right to use other animals for food or clothing, and the environmentalists can endanger or kill loggers to "protect" the forests.
It is worth noting that signers of the Humanist Manifesto III (1993) include such folks as Bill Baird, Reproductive (read "abortion") rights pioneer, Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute, an organization advocating extreme population control, and Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute.
While humanism heavily influences education and science and entertainment today, the battle is not over. Growing numbers of parents and educators are combating the constant effort to replace the wisdom of God with the faulty wisdom of man. Several organizations have raised up banners to fight the invasion of humanism by exposing its religious, logical and ethical failures and by stressing the importance of knowing how to defend the Christian worldview. We encourage our readers to educate themselves so that students, young and old, can know how to sanctify the Lord in their hearts and be "ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you," (1 Peter 3:15).
Mankind constantly seeks to save the world through human means, but God has already provided the true answer through His Son.
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