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Humanists are not religiously neutral
Humanists are not religiously neutral: Are you letting them maintain this false claim?
Survey Released By Pew Forum On Religion And Public Life
By Kevin Liptak
(CNN) – For the first time since 2001, a plurality Americans say there is too much religious talk from politicians, according to a new survey released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The poll showed 38 percent of Americans saying there was too much religious expression from politicians, compared to 30 percent who said there was too little. Twenty-five percent said the current level of religious rhetoric was the right amount. …
Religion has emerged a number of times in the 2012 GOP presidential nominating process, …
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Surveys like this one presume the Humanist elitist view that they represent the position of religious neutrality. In fact, politics is always rooted in religion. Humanism is a worldview with an ethical system, a religion. The assumption behind these questions is Christianity – is there too much Christianity in today’s presidential election process. Even in terms of today’s recognized religions, there’s nothing in the following commentary in reference to any religion except Christianity. The poll is therefore really asking if people think there’s too much explicit Christianity in today’s presidential political discussions. One sees the arrogance of the Humanist position in the different results between Republican and Democrat voters. Democrats, who are far more Humanistic, are much more likely to say that there is too much religion – too much explicit Christianity – in current political debate. This reflects the sensitivity they feel over the threat of Christianity to the influence they enjoy as Humanists in the current system.
As long as Christians accept Humanistic language and conceptual categories about religion, we are permitting them to define – re-define – reality. Only God has the ability – and right – to define reality so, when we give Humanists this right – we are elevating them in our thinking above God. We are raising up a false god – an idol. But we are also putting ourselves in a strategically inferior position because we are conceding a realm of moral neutrality to Humanists. A large proportion of Westerners today seem to believe that moral neutrality is a superior position in the realm of politics. It’s seen as the position of moderation, tolerance, pluralism, multiculturalism. This position gains the most support from the general public, so Christians who concede this position to Humanists are surrendering the position of influence to their opponents, in effect conceding defeat.