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The Secular
Agenda Secular
Humanism is a religion, but not in the formal sense of the Hindu, Muslim,
Buddhist, Jewish, or Christian faiths. Nevertheless, it has a
belief structure with its own set of assumptions and unproveable articles
of faiths concerning the existence of a supreme being, the origins of
life, the unseen forces which create coincidence, prosperity,
and disaster, and the moral distinctions dividing right and wrong. The Secularists argue that the
Founders intended government to be free from the influence of religion,
and they have made a point of seeking to remove the Christian influence
from any institutions that touch government The Secularists believe
their philosophy embodies the founders' intended ideal moral framework
upon which to base the nation's cultural, legal, and judicial
system. Such a plan to replace our Christian heritage and history with
Secularism may have been conceived by secret societies or in backroom
political deals, but we can be sure of the participation of the spiritual
forces that oppose God as contributors to driving men
to establish a totally secular government. Thus, the spiritual and secular
forces have allied to enroll the Legal, Legislature, and
Executive branches of government to use public funds
to propagate and indoctrinate the culture in the Secular
creed. In current years, the
courts have attained preeminent influence in the culture war because of
the autocratic nature of their rule. They have almost no public
accountability and may create legal precedent for all
future legislation and adjudication by a simple majority of
the Federal or Supreme Court. Their judgments have taken
on the force of law, and new Constitutional principles may
be inserted into the body of case law without precedent or
Constitutional Amendment.
Thus, because of this preeminent authority given to the Courts, the
weakest branch of government has become the strongest, since both Congress
and the Executive branch have refused to veto or use the impeachment
process to reign in the Court. Some argue that these extreme
excursions from the past could only occur if the voters concurred with the
position of the Courts. This may be true to the extent that
only a small differential exists between the philosophy behind
the unGodly rulings and the moral concepts of the
people. If true, such a condition will persist until the
average citizen in society changes his social-moral paradigm to
match a Christian worldview. Christian America must recognize
the threat, and find the moral justification to oppose the
encroachment and imposition of Secularism on
The Secularist seeks to institute a new values-hierarchy
at the base of American culture. They wish to
use principles such as diversity, choice, equality, tolerance,
privacy, and freedom of expression as the set of primary
values. And while each of these principles of social conduct has
its place and time of prominence in judging social interaction, the
court has taken these common courtesies as the defining and highest
considerations in matters of life, death, property, and sexuality and
ignored the traditional values-system pronounced in God's
Law and Christian culture. The Secularists view
themselves as enlightened ambassadors of the new thought
movement. Thus, we see the Christian value
system which has implicitly given moral guidance to government and
individual behavior for over 200 years being replaced by the
philosophy of man, the religion of
Secularism. The Secularist has lifted abortion to the level of the most sacred
right of a woman's personhood, to exercise "choice" with regards to
allowing a child growing inside her body to continue to term.
Therefore, the spirits using the Secularist
movement include the spirits of murder,
ritual death, blood sacrifice, profligate and/or irresponsible
sexuality. Men seek to exalt their own righteousness before God
and man; therefore they rationalize their acts according the
group value system and choose to ignore the violation of God's law,
while magnifying their right to "choose". But they ignore the
fact that the right of choice is given as a privilege
to spiritual adults who can be trusted to make Godly choices.
Children are not given the privilege of making choices until they have
shown themselves worthy and righteous in their habitual supervised
judgment. Couples engaging in
uncommitted or irresponsible sexuality have not met the criteria for
maturity required of adulthood, and as such have not met the basic
criteria for creating new life, much less its termination. The life
begun in the womb of a mother was not created by the parents; they only
made the choices which allowed God to begin His miraculous sequence of
life-development. Thus, the termination of a life, however young and
devoid of independent personhood, cannot be justified based upon such
tertiary principles as a "right to choose." The Secularist has likewise justified homosexual sodomy under the
rubric of a man's freedom of expression and right to privacy. Pornography is validated on the
basis of free speech. And
smoking is rationalized on the basis of a man’s right to control his own
body. The Secularists have
taken control of the educational agenda and promoted concepts which oppose
the Christian worldview such as safer sex, evolution, abortion,
homosexuality, tolerance, and honoring diversity. Each
issue has its associated implication as to the proper patterns of human
relations and moral behavior. The Secularists have already implemented an Orwellian-type Ministry of
Truth which has purged our history of any reference to
the Christian influence and foundation of our nation. The Supreme Court of 1947
installed the faux Constitutional principle of the "Separation of
Church and State" as though it were an intended value of the
founders. The drumbeat mantra
of "Separation" has been sounded so loudly that many, if not most,
Americans believe they must avoid any activity that would
bring political considerations into the religious setting, or the
religious perspective into the political arena. The
Secularists have succeeded in reducing Christianity to a
"voice" rather than the dominant cultural moral standard. They
seek to complete their agenda of minimizing Christianity’s influence on
government from every possible direction. One of the most pernicious laws
prevents Christian people from organizing political action from the
house of worship. Such laws assume that spiritual life has no
secular effect; a theory which clearly contradicts the fact that every
activity interrelates and influences the web of life. Man needs to organize his world in a way that gives him a predictive
understanding of the forces operating in his life. As
such, man must understand God to explain the random and
unexpected forces that crash down and disrupt his quasi-secure
existence. Eliminating God from the list of forces which truly
exist in life is merely one method of attempting to control
life by giving it rational service. Likewise, men
construct moral systems and creation stories to put life into
perspective, give it meaning, and justify the restrictions and
requirements of social interaction. The Secularist wishes to purge God from the public
debate, and has offered the man-centered religion of Secularism
as the alternative to fill the gap left by the "Separation" requirement
they invented. The Secular humanist religion has no
other God but man, and no absolute moral code other than a
societal agreement about fair play and the limits of satisfaction of
personal desire. As Christians, we must applaud much of the
Secularist's moral judgment because to a large extent it follows the
pattern of Jesus’ command to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” But, the failure of the
Secularist's moral system lies in its omission of the first and superior
part of that great commandment, “To love the Lord your God with all you
Heart, soul, mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself.” In other words, without first following God’ commandments, man’s
selfish desires could overshadow, or ignore, God’s directives. Christians believe that God
really did design the world, create man, establish the Law, give prophesy
about His plans, bring Jesus into the world to offer a way to restore
relationship, and allow Him to die as a substitution for our punishment,
and thereby allowed the universal scales of crime and punishment to
balance without experiencing the pain of separation from God. The
best system to follow is the one that reflects life, creation, Truth, and
reality most accurately.
I personally believe that we were a nation founded on Christian
principles. And, I believe
that as a nation “of the people” we have every right to
incorporate that belief structure into the center of our culture and mold
our governmental institutions around those seminal concepts. As Christians, we are opposed by
the Secularists who are using the Constitution as the basis for their
argument that we should remove Christianity from the center of our
national moral structure.
They believe that the First Amendment should be interpreted as a
high “Wall of Separation between Church and State" which allows no
penetration of religious expression of any type into
government. The Secularists further interpret this principle of
“Separation” as requiring proactive implementation of a Secular
government, and a parallel cleansing of Christianity from all expressions
of government in the public sector. This may explain the near
rabid obsession of the Secularists to bring governmental influence,
support, and regulation into as many areas of life as possible.
But, their primary incursion has been the near complete
domination of the educational establishment under the purview of
Government. As such, the Secularists have authorized themselves
to require a fully secular education. The Secularist argues that he is the true messenger of a
“religion-free” government, and as such his moral system should
prevail in all governmental realms. And if the founders intended an
absolutely God and religion-free government, the argument for their
appropriate social dominance is plausible, since Secularism
acknowledges no God, has no formal ceremony, no membership ritual,
and no creed. But, the assumption of the founders' rigid
insistence on a God-free government must be challenged. Man's internal compass can be overruled by the
strong soul influences exerted by money, sex, and power,
and the more subtle virtues of chastity, fidelity, and charity can be
obscured if man’s heart is not submitted to a transcendental
rulership. And, since maintenance of order in
a nation with a government, "of the people" depends largely
upon the self-imposed morality of the people, it seems unlikely that
the founders would have entrusted their new Republic to the desires and
whims of man. Regardless of the intent of the framers, we currently face a
situation where two large opposing groups have claimed
Constitutional authority in their judgment of Constitutional
intent. Thus, given that neither side will yield, the debate cannot
be won by one side capitulating and agreeing that the other side has
prevailed in its accurate historicity. Thus, the final arbiters of
the debate should be the people; the majority must choose the
meaning of our Constitution. Currently, the Secularists are
attempting to win the popular vote by creating a new history
and indoctrinating the youth. Given enough generations, the
Secularist may be able to obscure the truth of our history sufficiently to
create a majority who has believed its revisionist message that the
founders intended to Constitutionally mandate the creation
of a Secular nation.
But, as a Christian, as a man who believes the founders intended that
this nation was and should continue to be a Christian nation, I have a
right to elect representatives and judges who will allow me to use the
tools of government to propagate and perpetuate our foundation as that
Christian nation our forefathers intended. If the Biblical account of
creation is true, and as a nation we have adopted the True God as the
center of our moral universe, we would be foolish to abandon the
creation of such a God-centered nation and its true miraculous historical
foundation. It would be
foolish to instead adopt a Godless moral basis for the nation system
comprised of man's philosophical theories. No strong and enduring national
economy can be built on such a moral basis. The legal structure of a nation reflects its moral system, and in
turn that legal system colors, shades, and biases the economy
and national prosperity.
As a Christian Nation, we should perpetuate our
Christian majority by passing on an education in the proper care and
execution of a Godly social system, and it should be done through our
public educational system. We should avoid, as did the Founders,
establishing a State Religion, with its associated orthodoxy and potential
for Theocratic tyranny. We should allow the majority
of voters in a city, county, or state, and nation to direct public
funds toward projects which have overt Christian and
denominational affiliations. We should legislate against immorality in personal and public life
according to the Christian standard. We are God's proxies
here on earth, and it is our duty to bring the violators of
His Law to a place of willing and heart-felt confession,
repentance, and restoration right thought, speech, and action.
As Christians, we should discriminate between good and evil,
and remain intolerant of unrepentant sin in our society.
Every person, even the rebel and sinner is a soul that God is calling to
Himself, and no one need separate Himself from God’s love and
relationship, regardless of his past sin against God and man. God
has already planned a perfect place for each person to fit and
work in His Kingdom; such is the principle of predestination.
We should legislate and adjudicate against sin according to the standard
of God's Law, and rule the nation with humility and love.
When we speak the truth in love, and act consistent with out speech,
we can truly comply with the greatest commandment,
"to love the Lord our God with all our heart mind and strength, and
our neighbor as our selves." All people of all religions are welcome in our land,. They will
not be required to adopt Christianity as their faith, but they are
required to obey the laws of behavior required by our Christian
system of morality. The non-believer does not have to attend
public education, which trains the youth in the Christian history and
heritage of our nation, he can employ a private teacher to instruct
him in the traditions of his choice. But, the non-believer has no
right to demand that public expression of Christianity be removed so
as to diminish his sense of alienation in a culture. The Secularist
may argue that a primary purpose and premise of our new republic was the
creation of a melting pot. But, such arguments refer again to
man's ideas of egalitarianism, and the inherent worth of
multiculturalism. Such minor principles are likewise flawed and
subservient to the more major principles of a Christian Nation. In
short, the non-Christian does not have the standing in society to
demand removal of any and all symbols, words, or laws which cause him to
confront his religious convictions. Citizenship implies equality
before the law, it does not imply righteousness before God. All people are fundamentally of equal worth in the eyes of
the Lord, regardless of religion. But the soul which rebels against
His commandments and Ways voluntarily separates himself from fellowship
with the Almighty. The man who chooses another religion is likewise
separated from fellowship with Christian citizen-believers. And,
while the concept of a nation which embraces all, the poor, the homeless,
the huddled masses, no one is present to execute these lofty maxims unless
the people of God care to give. And, that giving is for naught
unless it is accompanied by food for the soul and spirit. People of
dissimilar spirit do not have equal fellowship as people of kindred
spirits. The family of Christian believers is a haven of Godly
relationship for those who wish to join in the fellowship. Those who
choose not to join will be invited, forever to join in. The choice
of equality is dependent upon the man, not upon the society of a Christian
Nation. The same separation comes between nations and
God when they exalt the religion of man and install unGodly
rulers. Divorced from His blessing, we cannot long create a
nation where prosperity thrives and justice rules. To restore
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