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Adding Wisdom to Knowledge.
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How Does Humanism Affect Your Child?
Something appalling has happened in America and most parents are completely unaware of what has taken place. What is secular humanism? How has secular humanism influenced traditional family values and beliefs? How has secular humanism affected your child? What can you do to minimize the impact secular humanism has and will have upon your child? Parents would do well to ponder these questions. Secular humanism, commonly called humanism, has become America’s new religion, a religion that begins and ends with man, as opposed to Christianity that begins and ends with God. According to humanists, no deity can save them, they must save themselves. Such empty rhetoric shows the foolishness of man’s thinking. Conversely, Psalm 100:3 states, “Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.” To better understand the beliefs and values advocated by humanists, read the following words taken from the Humanist Manifesto 11(1973), a document that is to the humanists what the Bible is to Christians. As you read, keep in mind that the people who wrote the Humanist Manifesto were well-educated, intelligent people of prominent positions in well-known institutions of learning. We believe... that traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions that place revelation, God, ritual, or creed above human needs and experience do a disservice to the human species. Any account of nature should pass the tests of scientific evidence; in our judgment, the dogmas and myths of traditional religions do not do so... We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural; it is either meaningless or irrelevant to the questions of the survival and fulfillment of the human race. As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled humanism as a religion in Torcaso v. Watkins (June 1961). The court stated, “Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others” (emphasis added). Four years later (1965), the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that a humanistic conscientious objector was eligible for a religious exemption from the armed services because of sincerely held religious beliefs. In the January/February 1983 issue of The Humanist, John Dunphy stated that the faith of humanists, not the “rotting corpse of Christianity,” was the secular school’s religious base. Twenty-two years after the 1961 Supreme Court’s decision, Dunphy wrote: These [humanist] teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool day care or large state university. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has expelled Christianity from secular education, and humanism, a system of beliefs that denies the divine Christ, exists as the acceptable religion of secular education. Keep in mind that for humanists, there is no God; there is no heaven; there is no Jesus Christ; there is no supernatural; there is no life after death. If humanists cannot prove something scientifically, they reject it; that is, if they cannot see, feel, hear, taste, or smell something, they reject its existence. Undeniably, humanistic thinking has gained control of secular schools. Whereas secular schools do have some Christian teachers, in reality these teachers have strict religious limitations placed upon them by the Supreme Court. Secular schools promote humanism through their textbooks and secular- thinking teachers. Clearly, secular humanism has deprived secular schools of a moral, Christian purpose. Application Christian school students learn from Christian teachers who honor the Lord, teach Bible values, revere the teaching of Scripture, and respect the family. The school environment is safe and the academic program is strong. The Christian school protects your child from the teachings of secular humanism. The question is often asked: “Why would Christian parents consciously embrace an indoctrinating philosophy that denies the Christian faith? After all, students attending secular schools are bombarded daily with secular values and beliefs.” You know this, of course; this is why you selected a Christian school for your child to attend. Fortunately, you are among those parents who recognize the worth of a Christian school and the danger of humanism. Never let anyone convince you otherwise! Know this for sure: God is pleased with your decision.
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