You have to study a lot of history, and be well up on current events, to understand why the Bible comes down so strongly on idolatry.
Because it’s the root of so much evil, that’s why! Really, read that “Humanist Manifesto II” sometime: these people are freakin’ crazy.
And it all starts with worshiping the work of your own hands.
For those who missed the introduction to this morning’s hymn, I’m much better this morning–and I thank all my friends here who raised me up in prayer.
The Smartest People In The World (just ask ’em!), in reality the most pitifully stupid people in the world, insist there is no God who hears prayers or can do anything about them. Says so right there in the Humanist Manifesto.
As painful and as big a waste of time as it would seem, we ought to pray that the Holy Spirit rescue as many of those poor fools as possible. The Lord would rather (so He told Peter) that no one perished, but that all would come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
But He won’t force us.
I don’t think it’s possible to understand anything that’s happening these days without understanding that humanism is a religion whose adherents seek to impose it on the world.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/04/14/humanist-religion-1-the-humanists-god/
Nowhere is this laid out more clearly than in the Humanist Manifesto II. There is a Humanist Manifesto III, but it takes pains to say it does not supersede Manifest No. 2.
Question: Why is it that every pack of howling idiots has a “manifesto”?
Unlimited government–it always works!
Over the years, I’ve found “the Humanist Manifesto II” highly enlightening when it comes to trying to understand the often bizarre practices and beliefs of this current age. As a world view, humanism has a lot to answer for. Replacing the all-righteous God with fat-headed, fallible men is never going to turn out well.
“Choosing the Curse” is part of a series I wrote a few years ago, for the Chalcedon magazine, on the baneful effects of the philosophy so clearly laid out in Humanist Manifesto II.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-humanist-manifesto-ii-choosing-the-curse
This is the pseudo-religion that seeks to replace Christianity and literally dominate the world, through science and an all-powerful state.
If you can think of anything more nightmarish than that, please let me know.
No, I’m not talking Humanist Manifesto magic–give up your belief in God, put your trust in Science, and you get a perfect world in which everybody’s perpetually happy.
This is, purportedly, real magic. Wishing dust. Spells.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/09/26/using-magic-to-get-anything-you-want/
We have the biggest, costliest, most all-inclusive “education” system in world history… and this is what we’ve got to show for it.
As I sat in the laundromat today, the TV nooze–you just can’t escape it–presented a story that distressed me.
It was the trial of a band of merry carjackers who killed a man because they wanted his car and whatever might be in it. We were shown the victim’s widow addressing the convicted trigger man in court: “You took away everything I had, all my hopes and dreams, because you decided to play God, deciding who should live and who should die, deciding you had the right to kill because you wanted something that you hadn’t earned.”
God has given the civil government the authority and the duty to avenge these wrongs, and yet the government all too often refuses to do that (see Romans 13). Instead, the court is expected to sentence the trigger man to 30 years in prison–three square meals a day, color TV, weight room, and the company of like-minded savages. That is not justice. Again, the civil government has failed to carry out its function. The victim is still dead; his wife is still a widow; his children remain fatherless.
Adam and Eve inherited Original Sin by listening to the serpent’s promise that they themselves would be “as gods” if they disobeyed the real God (Genesis 3:5), and we, their descendants, have been doing it ever since.
The 20th century was a festival of murder. Think of Mao Tse-Tung, who killed at least 40 million people as part of his mad scheme, the Great Leap Forward, to transform China into a leading industrial power in five years. And that was only one of countless examples.
We haven’t learned a bloody thing. Today the Humanist Manifesto II declares there is no God, but that’s no problem–“using technology wisely,” we can do all those things God should have done: we can do His job. Paradise on earth. Just break a few more eggs, and we’ll have our omelet. Meanwhile, The Smartest People in the World wage war against reality itself while the Davos crowd, invoking Man-Made Climate Change as their warrant, works tirelessly toward a world government.
Like, we should trust them?
Our country’s founders were blessed with the wisdom to impose strict limits on the central government–limits which The Anointed of our day work ceaselessly to overthrow. If I’ve learned one thing from observing the nooze and reading history, it’s that the Original Sin, the will to be as God, features an insatiable lust for power over other human beings.
Which brings me back to the carjacking case. What was that, but an untrammeled will to power over the rightful owner of the car, and a decision to exercise it by killing him? You don’t have to bump off 40 million of your countrymen to be a little tin god: a single murder will do just as well.
God has a plan to heal the human race and regenerate His whole creation. He will do it in spite of us. For this cause Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born, and died on the cross, and rose from the dead… and will return.
Come, Lord Jesus, come. Because we are not fit to do God’s job; but you are.
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.
Christ Pantokrator, Ruler of All
[F]or the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. –Revelation 12:12
We have entered a dangerous period of history. All over the world, people are getting wise to the false and grandiose claims of secular humanism. They’re waking up and starting to resist it.
“Using technology wisely,” as they say in Humanist Manifesto II, these fools claim they will do all the things that God never did because He doesn’t exist. They’re going to wipe out poverty, injustice, war, diseases, and everything else that’s bad–just give ’em the power, and they’ll do it–ushering in an earthly paradise. The only thing wrong with that claim is that they just can’t bloody do it.
Why? Because they are working from a totally wrong assumption. As Christians, we know the evils of the world spring from the sinful human heart. But humanists have always insisted that the evils arise not from within us, but as a result of improperly set-up institutions–which they, of course, will re-engineer and then everything will be hunky-dory. They have broken an awful lot of eggs to make this omelet, with nothing to show for it but heaps of dead bodies.
But these claims of theirs are all they have, and they will fight like demons to hold onto them. It’s all about their own personal power, pride, and wealth; and they will fight to keep it.
That’s why they make war on Christmas. That’s why, in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Brexit, and increased resistance to their program all throughout the world, and a lot of people now saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holiday that we’re ashamed to mention by name,” they have now moved on to another campaign which Breitbart news calls “War on Christmas 2.0”–an argument that Jesus Christ never existed in the first place: “historians and bloggers alike are questioning whether the actual man called Jesus ever existed” ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/21/war-christmas-2-0-jesus-never-existed/ ).
And that’s why we must tirelessly proclaim that Christ came in the flesh and that He did, and does, and always will, exist.
Pray, sing, and do good works in Jesus’ name–because these rampant secularists, these God-wannabes, don’t care who they hurt or how much damage they do, and they won’t stop until their master, Satan, is cast into the lake of fire.
What do all of these have in common–safe space, hate speech laws, “affirming” and “celebrating” whatever aberrant “lifestyle” anyone can think of, vaccinating infants for every disease under the sun, and claiming that government action and policies can control the earth’s natural processes and prevent “Climate Change”?
All of these, and more, flow naturally, inevitably, from the cockeyed humanist project to set man up in place of God: and for “man” read “government.”
To out-do God in being God, these people seek to remove any and all challenges from life. Don’t take my word for it: read “the Humanist Manifesto II.” (http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II) “Using technology wisely,” we can wipe out disease, direct the course of human evolution, end war and poverty, and blah-blah-blah.
They can’t promise eternal life and forgiveness of sins (“Not yet, not yet–but we’re working on it!”), but for the time being they can transform the world into a secular paradise in which nothing bad ever happens–not even bad weather. And if perchance it does, well, it must be somebody’s fault it happened, and the government will soon take care of it.
This from people who would be hard-put to organize a softball tournament.
This is what we get from leaders and wise men who abandon God–now they’re the ones who have to be God! But don’t worry, it’s just bound to work: because they’re so smart, their intentions are so good, and anyhow human beings are naturally good and that will become apparent as soon as our masters engineer all the bugs out of the system. The problem is not original sin, oh, no! It’s just that our environment has been so screwed up by capitalism, racism, sexism, White Privilege, and yes, you bet, by Religion in general and Christianity in particular… and once we get rid of all that stuff, you’ll see heaven on earth.
But they have to prove they can do it–hence all these policies and programs to take all the struggle, all the stress, all the pain, and all the disappointment out of life: because if God were half as smart as they are, He never would’ve created such a defective world.
It started in the Garden of Eden and it’s still going strong today.
And Heaven help us if we’re fool enough to trust these people.
[Above: the United Nations, a chief temple of the humanist religion]
Using technology wisely, we can control our environment, conquer poverty, markedly reduce disease, extend our life-span, significantly modify our behavior, alter the course of human evolution and cultural development, unlock vast new powers, and provide humankind with unparalleled opportunity for achieving an abundant and meaningful life. –The Humanist Manifesto II ( http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II )
The quote from Humanist Manifesto II identifies the humanists’ god in one word: we.
Except, of course, some of that we is more god than others.
Oh, there’s a small price to pay. You have to give up “the prayer-hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them” because “it is an unproved and outmoded faith.” For the time being, you have to give up the hope of eternal life, too–and the forgiveness of sins. But once they learn how to download John McCain onto a disc, so he can be a U.S. Senator for the next 900 years, they may get around to making some form of immortality available to the common herd.
But again, I draw your attention to that key word, we. We are gonna do all the things that God shoulda done, but didn’t. We, through our anointed Scientific Experts, are gonna (1) control the environment, (2) get rid of poverty, (3) get rid of disease, (4) live practically forever, (5) –oh, and this is such a good one!–“significantly modify our behavior.” Yessir, they’ve had lots of practice modifying other people’s behavior! Where do you think those miles of barbed wire and those heaps of corpses come from?
The humanist will say that there is no divinity, nothing higher than man himself–the pinnacle of evolution, the boss, the cat’s whiskers, poised ready to unlock vast new powers! But again, some are very, very much higher than others. The ones outside the barbed wire are definitely higher than the ones inside.
The humanists’ god is not the State, but the very special individuals who operate, advise, and control the state–and are fantastically enriched by doing so.
This is the religion that has taken over the Western world and all its relevant institutions–the state, science, the nooze media, the schools and universities, courts, the entertainment media, and even a rather sizeable chunk of the churches.
It, in turn, is controlled by, and is the servant of, spiritual wickedness in high places which the humanists do not admit exists.
