(18-09-2009 10:53 AM)Andy Wrote: [ -> ]I'm new to this forum, I'm also a secular humanist.
Satanist however, no.
Hate to derail this thread more than it has been with the previous introduction of unseen forces as the basis for correct conduct.
Belief in Satan is akin to belief in any other proposed supernatural spiritual entity. Humanism reject the supernatural and spiritual as the basis for productive moral behaviour and conducive ethical reasoning.
A perspective on Secular Humanism, taken from a review of Steve Jackson's illuminating card game, "Illuminati: New World Order".
"The bottom of this playing card reads: "While you control this group, all straight or Conservative groups will be so distracted that any attacks they make against your other groups will be at -3 Power."
Certainly, Secular Humanism has been greatly instrumental in all of Western Society currently rejecting Jesus Christ, the Bible, and Judeo-Christian values. By far, the most serious impact has been in the field of Public Education. C.F. Potter and Thomas Dewey led the way in the period between World Wars I and II to completely re-write educational curricula -- gradually at first -- so that all Biblical values are overthrown. In Seminar One, "America's Leadership of the New World Order", we demonstrate how this subtle attack on our values system was carried out. The result is that, now, Christian parents must get their children out of Public Schools, for they are being conditioned to become good citizens of the global system of Antichrist!
Listen to Christian educator, Samuel Blumenthal, explain:
"It was thus Dewy who began to fashion a new materialist religion in which humanity was venerated instead of God. This is basically the religion of Secular Humanism, and this is what has become the official religion of the United States, for it is the only religion permitted in its public schools and totally supported by government funds." ["NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education", Samuel Blumenthal, p. 55]
Dr. Blumenthal then continues:
"But the undermining of the Judeo-Christian tradition was well underway when, in 1933, John Dewey and 33 other liberal humanists drew up and signed that extraordinary document known as the Humanist Manifesto. It reflected all of the influences of science, evolution, and the new psychology which were reshaping American education. It called for the abandonment of traditional religion and replacing it with a new secular religion better able to accommodate the new moral relativism in a man-centered, godless world." [Ibid., p. 226]"