It’s an old story—substitutes for worshipping God. We’re surrounded today by Humanists, both so-called “Christian Humanists” and “Secular Humanists.” Actually, there’s nothing Christian about Humanism; it’s all secular...and...make no mistake about it, it’s anti God. However, one important aspect of Humanism needs to be understood: While it’s definitely not Christian, it is definitely religious.
Why? What’s the point of Humanism? Before I answer that question, let’s take a case from the Old Testament that may shed some light on the issue. After King Solomon’s reign over a unified Israel, the nation split into a Northern Kingdom and a Southern Kingdom. Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, was the undisputed king over the Southern Kingdom often referred to as Judah. Jeroboam (no relation) became the king over the Northern Kingdom, often referred to from that time forward as Israel.
There was a problem, however, for Jeroboam. The temple, God’s house, was in Jerusalem, right there in Rehoboam’s capital city. In I Kings 12, Jeroboam realizes that some religious changes must be made, “We can’t have our Northern Kingdom people constantly going over to the capital of the Southern Kingdom to worship God; they might defect.” So...Jeroboam comes up with his solution—a new religion. Ironically, it was a throw back to an old, rejected religion—calf worship. That’s the one for which the people were punished back in Exodus 32 when, in the absence of Moses, Aaron made the people a golden calf to worship.
Jeroboam’s new religion was based upon worshipping a calf statue. He rejected the God of Israel altogether. Thus, Jeroboam had a religion for his people, but without worship of the Jehovah God of Israel. Jeroboam gave them a godless substitute to worshipping God.
Hey! That still goes on, and one form it takes today is Humanism. Humanists sound noble when you read their mission statement. However, it is important to realize that they propose a godless philosophy of life. They reject altogether the concept of a God who orders our steps. Humanists particularly find us Bible thumpers irritating. To them, belief in a divine book (my Bible) is a simple-minded approach to life’s problems.
So...back to the question: What’s the point of Humanism? Here’s the deal: People need a cause...a mission...something that pulls them together. Having rejected God, they still need some sort of philosophical glue. Enter: Humanism. Humanists can propose a standard of morality and make people feel guilty for not living up to their proposed standard of morality. Interestingly enough, their standards of morality aren’t based upon anything concrete. Their causes are designed to pull people away from the God of morality and His standard, God’s Word.
They’ve always had a cause...and a focal point for making everyone feel guilty. Today the Humanists are riding the global-warming band wagon. Here’s something I’m certain of: Global warming is simply the most recent religious guilt trip laid upon our society by the anti-God Humanists. Never mind science; it’s a religion designed to make all of us middle classers feel culpable.
I was amused in August, 2007 to read that NASA admitted to having miscalculated the temperatures in the United States for most of the previous decade. It invalidated the Humanists’ best sound bites. Suddenly, 1998 was no longer the hottest year ever; 1934 was. The year 2005 moved way down the list, and the hottest decade in the last one hundred years is now officially the 1930’s, not the latest one as they had maintained. To this very day the man-made global warmists have not corrected the NASA temperatures on their web sites. Why? Because it’s a religion, not science.
And then…the bombshell this week—doctored statistics were exposed by these Humanists parading as climate experts. They admitted that their emails had been made public, but insisted it was all taken out of context. I mean…who wants to admit that their religious activity is a fraud? The main-stream media has barely touched on the world-wide fraud of man-made global warming. What’s up with that? Were it not for Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, the story would have been suppressed completely.
So…is this new revelation of doctored statistics and suppressed contradictory science a game changer? Well…not unless the media simply cannot contain the story. You see, it’s a religion, just like Jeroboam’s calf worship. The media, for the most part, is in on the propagation of the Humanist agenda…anything that discounts God and creates an alternative Humanist cause.
Take a lesson from Jeroboam in the Bible. When you take God out of religion, you end up with the rule setters beating everyone else over the head with their bogus set of standards of morality; it’s just another form of Humanism. Psalm 10:4 sums it up like this, “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.”
Pastor Turner of Fayette Bible Church in Fayetteville is also the author of Bible Track, an online daily Bible-reading schedule and commentary which may be accessed at www.bibletrack.org.
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