What is it and why does it matter? Am I serious about taking on such a serious topic?! Where's the humor and where's the fun? Well... not in this blog!
Secular humanism is ahumanist philosophy that upholds reason , ethics , and justice , and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as warrants of moral reflection and decision-making. Like other types of humanism, secular humanism is a life stance or a praxis focusing on the way human beings can lead good and happy lives (eupraxsophy ). The term was coined in the 20th century to make a clear distinction from "religious humanism ". A related concept is scientific humanism, which the biologist Edward O. Wilson claimed to be "the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature". Wikipedia 2007
“Man is the measure of all things” and objective truth is not possible. Protagoras 460 b.c.
“You will be like God”, The Serpent
There are consequences of such a worldview as outlined below.
Secular humanism is a
“Man is the measure of all things” and objective truth is not possible. Protagoras 460 b.c.
“You will be like God”, The Serpent
There are consequences of such a worldview as outlined below.
"Foisting the democratic “form-freedom balance in government downward on cultures whose philosophy and religion would never have produced it, has, in almost every case, ended in some form of totalitarianism…” The humanists push for “freedom” but having no Christian consensus to contain it, that “freedom” leads to chaos or to slavery under the state. Humanism, with its lack of any final base for values or law, always leads to chaos. It then naturally leads to some form of authoritarianism to control the chaos… With its mistaken concept of final reality, it has no intrinsic reason to be interested in the individual, the human being. Its natural interest is the two collectives: the state and society.”
A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer, pg. 30.
A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer, pg. 30.
