By Jim Mettenbrink
Continuing the review of the destruction of the USA’s foundation: Our nation’s history and the preponderance of written and oral religious debates (1800-1950) among the various biblical faiths reflect the reverence the populous had for God and the Bible as His direct instruction to mankind. The century-long slide into unbelief came about by the influence of theological liberalism and the acceptance of Secular Humanism, declaring each person as his own god and pragmatic rule maker. Rules that can be changed on one’s own whim.
Curtis Reese a Unitarian endorsed godless Humanism. In 1909, he declared God was “philosophically possible, scientifically unproved and religiously unnecessary” – We don’t need God! Over the next 20 years, Reese became a leading spokesman for Humanism, authored a book, “Humanist Sermons,” was an editor of the 1933 manifesto, and was a director of the American Humanist Association.
Humanism’s evangelists boldly declared their intent.
Reese’s contemporary, Francis Potter, a signatory of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto, and also an honorary president of the National Education Association, and author of “Humanism: A New Religion” (1930), stated the aims of Humanism in the schools. “Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism.”
Fifty years later, John Dunphy wrote, “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of Humanism.” (A Religion for a New Age; The Humanist; Jan/Feb 1983, p.26). Fully three generations have been deceived into thinking our present moral and ethical sewer is normal. Postmodernism, Humanism’s offspring declares there is no truth, thus no right and wrong, just choices – normal and unusual. So what has been the impact of infusing Secular Humanism into society via the classroom? And the impact on Christendom? Next