I keep coming back to the Humanist Manifesto II–why is it every pack of mountebanks and villains has a “manifesto”?–published in 1973, as the quintessential document of modern evil. Satanism, pseudo-science, statism and globalism: this is where they all come together. This is the devil’s crossroads.
They tell us in the first paragraph that belief in God must be abandoned: “Salvationism, based on mere affirmation, still appears as harmful, diverting people with false hopes of heaven hereafter.”
That’s okay, though. They’ve got an alternative.
“Using technology wisely, we can… alter the course of human evolution and cultural development…” (https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto2/) Among other things. You name it, technology will do it. Provided it isn’t busy getting hacked, updated, or just not working.
I mention this on a Sunday because we all need to be reminded, from time to time, what we’re up against.
This is spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12) being carried out by its slaves and servants in low places. We are seeing this twaddle played out right before our eyes. No more truth! We are, now, whatever we say we are: we create ourselves from day to day!
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin…
God’s patience is inexhaustible, but not unlimited. He will not grow weary: He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. But He is righteous, and He will not have this stuff in His Kingdom when Christ comes down again to claim it on the earth.
Of course the humanists claim they want to do good things, like conquer poverty and get rid of disease, abolish war, etc. They always seem to wind up with lots of barbed wire and dead bodies cluttering the landscape, whenever they take power. Their rejection of Almighty God is profound, as anyone but a pluperfect fool can see from their document. To reject God is to reject love. Case closed.
Two death cults confront God’s people in this fallen world: humanism and radical Islam.
And of the two, humanism is by far the more dangerous.
The secular humanist wants to return to Eden… but without God. This thinking is what got us in this mess in the first place, thinking we can do it without God. In reality we can’t take even a single breath if God did not allow it.
I’ve recently come to appreciate that the first signs Jesus gave of the Last Days were the appearance of false Messiahs and Matthew 24:11 says “And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.”
We see false prophets everywhere these days. The news media has lost a great deal of its credibility these days by promoting questionable sources as newsworthy. It doesn’t escape my notice that within the symbolism in the book of Revelation, in chapter 16, verse 13, there is a character referred to as the False Prophet and this False Prophet is involved in the release of “three unclean spirits like frogs. 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.”
For those whom put their trust in the One True God it pays to keep our wits about us and remember the broader implications of what is happening on the world scene.
False prophets–a growth industry, these days.