Humanism is a secular religion professed by humanists whose creed is enunciated in the Humanist Manifesto I of 1933 and the Humanist Manifesto II of 1973. Its views on current trends are made known in the publications of the American Humanist Association.
Humanism denies and rejects God, faith, prayer, all divine purpose or Providence, all religions which “place God above human needs,” the existence of life after death, a supernatural Heaven and Hell, “traditional religious morality,” religious attitudes about sex, “national sovereignty,” and a “profit-motivated society.”
To replace the tenets of traditional religion, Humanism proclaims its own set of self-serving, unproved dogmas. Humanism proclaims faith in man rather than God, asserts that the universe is “self-existing and not created,” that man is the product of evolution, that the “joy of living” and the “satisfactions of life” are the supreme goal of man, and that ethics comes from “human experience” not from God.
Humanism recognizes and accepts abortion, euthanasia, suicide, and all varieties of “sexual exploration” and “lifestyles.” Humanism works for the establishment of a “secular society,” a “socialized economic order,” world government, military disarmament, and population control by government.
What lifts Secular Humanism out of the class of an obscure cult is the big names in education and philosophy who have publicly signed the Manifestos: John Dewey (father of progressive education), Vashti McCollum (famous for her Supreme Court case that removed “released time” religion classes from public schools), Lester Mondale (brother of Walter), B.F. Skinner (Harvard professor of psychology), Lester A. Kirkendall (father of the sex education movement), and Betty Friedan (mother of the women’s liberation movement).
To paraphrase a famous line, “Yes, Virginia, humanists are teaching their religion in the public schools.” Every time a teacher tells the child that he can decide for himself whether to steal, lie, cheat, throw people out of the lifeboat to drown, blaspheme, fornicate, covet, or commit abortion, suicide, or euthanasia, that teacher is teaching the religion of Humanism. Every time a teacher rejects or ridicules the notion that God created man and the earth, that teacher is teaching the religion of Humanism.
It’s time to expose the hypocrisy of those who have so chased God and the Bible out of public schools in the name of freedom of religion, and then forced the religion of Humanism on the children instead.
