BASIC BELIEFS OF HUMANISM

BILL PRUETT

Witnessing the moral decline of America in your lifetime, the question that inevitably comes to mind is, “How has this happened?”  The answers are many and varied because it is difficult to summarize them in one answer.  The topic of this article is that one answer – Humanism.  Humanism is a philosophy and a religion that has America in a moral stranglehold.  Bible believers have begun to fight back against Humanists and the outcome of that culture war will determine the future of our children and grandchildren.

What is Humanism?  If it has done so much damage, every American must be able to recognize it.  To do so, we have to look beneath the surface and see the beliefs of Humanism that are underlying the verbal misdirection we receive each day from politicians, media, etc.

Jim Smith, in his book, One Nation Under God or Man?, identified five basic beliefs of Humanism:

-       Atheism – the belief there is no God.

-       Evolution – the belief the world came from nothing and there is no Creator.

-       Amorality – the belief that there are no absolute morals.  Morals are man-made, relative, and subjective.

-       Autonomy – the belief that “man rules the world” with no God to guide him, or interfere with him.

-       One World Wide, Socialist Government – the belief and goal that a global ruling class could solve the world’s problems through man’s great intelligence, science and reason.  There would be no nations and no national boundaries but one world wide government with sovereignty and rule over the United States and every country in the world.

Atheism is the one foundational belief of Humanism.  The Humanist is an Atheist or he is not truly a Humanist because the philosophy is rooted and grounded in a rejection of Almighty God.  The other four beliefs above get their major premise from Atheism. Man must reject God first and then he will adopt Humanism.  If God is, and He is, then Humanism is a “house of cards in a hurricane.” 

Evolution has been heralded as the truth in science since the days of Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species in 1859.  Rather, evolution is simply Atheism in science and the classroom.  The tale of this world creating itself is constantly changing because evolutionists and Atheists cannot explain our origins without a Creator.  They don’t know if we came from a single-celled organism (or how it was created!), primordial slime (or how it was created!), or an ape (or how it was created!), or a big bang (or how it was created!), or black holes ( or how they were created?!).  The only thing, the only thing, the Atheist knows about Creation is that God did not do it!  They are clueless how it happened but they know God did not do it!  They reject Absolute Truth, but they ABSOLUTELY know that God did not create the universe!  I think they surmised that from a “big bang” caused by an “ape” throwing a “fossil” around in “a black hole.”

Amorality is the belief that absolute morals do not exist.  Amorality is not morality or immorality.  It is a belief that there are no fixed morals.  Men are left to choose their own morals, which are thus relative, not absolute.  Killing six million Jews in gas chambers was moral to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.  Yet, if God does not exist, there is no fixed, absolute moral transgression of their acts.  Amorality is the only consistent position of the Atheist when it comes to ethics and morals because you can’t evolve morals out of a "black hole"!  When Atheists assume God away, why not put themselves in charge?

Autonomy is yet another extension of Atheism.  It states that “man rules the world” and he does not look to the fictional God of Christians for guidance.  Bible believers have a moral code by which we live.  The autonomy of man is simply Atheism teaching that man has no spiritual constraints on him.  Autonomy is a logical result of Atheism because the desire for autonomy is why man rejects God, without a clue how else the world was created.

One World Wide, Socialist Government is a goal of Humanism that Americans should realize has a full head of steam.  The United Nations has become more of an experiment in global governance than global diplomacy.   The Humanist liberal elites in America, nice and "comfy" in the Democratic Party, have claimed environmentalism, climate control, energy, cap and trade, population control, family planning, gun control, etc. as issues that require the blessing of the international court of opinion, rather than the U.S. Congress.  We have Supreme Court Justices looking to international law for authority when they swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution.  Humanists are Statists and chose Socialism as their preferred form of government in the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 because of its potential for unlimited power.  If they cannot achieve their agenda in America at the polls, the citizens will be coerced by an ever-growing federal government and judiciary.  When the people are under subjection, then a transfer to a global government will be completed.

A subsequent article, “Secondary Beliefs of Humanism”, will look at some beliefs built on Atheism that endanger the founding principles of America and the future of our children.