Humanism IS a Religion

As president of the American Humanist Association, [Isaac] Asimov defined humanism as a non-theistic religion. Not a philosophy, a credo, or a pleasant aphorism, but a religion. This is the religion of evolution that trades under the pseudonym of the science of evolution. Asimov had a right to worship the altar of his choice, just as do evolutionists today; but we must be aware that, when religion masquerades as science, both suffer.

Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution, pg.53

The Use of Human Reason

Human reason is a wonderful instrument if grounded in reality, but the instrument is just as good for rationalizing as it is for reason.

Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth. Cited by Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg. 42.

If Evolution is True, How First Cell?

First cell has a host of questions it must answer: How did it learn to eat? To know that it must eat to survive? To repair its defects? Even to recognize what a defect might be? To move? And why it might want to move? How did it learn it might need a defense mechanism? To defend itself from what? And what might have been the first marauder? How did first cell learn the unfathomable process of replicating itself?

Since we know that a plan requires a planner, how did first cell create all these defense, repair, excretory, nutritional and replication systems by accident, out of the blue, by magic, without help, without past knowledge, with no guide? If creation involves a single miracle, first cell, according to any theory, evolution or creation, requires a billion miracles.

This is not the entire gamut of questions we must ask of first cell; but for starters. Failing to answer these questions shows the flimsy fabric of the evolutionary theorem, a theory that cannot even get out of first slime. If evolutionists cannot answer these questions about first cell, why can anyone believe that we even have anything sensible to talk about downstream?

Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.38

No God If Evolution Is True

Whether it is a committed belief or an uninformed consent, the atheist/secularist viewpoint starts with teaching the theory of evolution as fact. Why? Because, if evolution is true, God cannot be. … If all life accidentally sprang from a soup of chemicals, then evolved into a billion species, what room is left for God? 

Duane Arthur Schmidt, “And God Created Darwin: The Death of Darwinian Evolution,” pg.ix

Government Without God?

If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg. 387

Universities/Colleges and Political Correctness

Today universities are the battleground for intense conflict between people demanding power. What some call political correctness includes speech code and sensitivity training for people considered to be unenlightened. For example, a woman who opposes abortion is cast as one trying to strip other women of power and dignity and masking her power grab in the language of “protecting babies.” To the forces of political correctness, this person needs to undergo reeducation to adjust her antiquated view. Similarly, people who think homosexual practice is wrong are said to be using the language of morality to strip homosexuals of their humanity, and this must be corrected at the earliest age before bigotry takes hold.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.377

Liberty

What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke, cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.366

Are You A Slave?

Sexual "Freedom" Doesn't Satisfy

If there was one thing the sexual revolution was supposed to deliver, it was lots of great sex. Yet it is failing to do so, in part because the casual sexual encounters it encourages are not conducive to satisfying sex. Hookups are a bad sexual teacher. They provide little opportunity or incentive to become a good lover, in large part because strangers don’t know how to please each other and aren’t going to stick around long enough to learn. And pornography is training people, especially young men, to be bad in bed.

Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Sex and the LEFT

Sexual liberalism produces unhappiness because it is inimical to relationships and practices that offer us profound meaning and joy in life. Deep relationships require deep commitments, but sexual liberation requires that every romantic relationship (and therefore also every parental relationship) be severable. Thus, the sexual revolution doubly cheats its disciples. Not only does its ethos of pursuing immediate pleasure injure the commitment that is needed for lasting and fulfilling relationships, but it also provides far less sexual gratification than promised.

Nathanael Blake, False Promises: Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Double Standards in Sympathy

Here’s the hard truth: The world has largely ignored the Jewish refugees because their story doesn’t fit the convenient narrative of Israel as the villain. This is especially glaring in the global context of World War II, when 30-40 million people were displaced or expelled across Europe and Asia. While the international community worked to resettle these refugees, it became obsessed with the Palestinian refugee issue.

Palestinian refugees were place in camps in Jordan Lebanon, and Syria and denied citizenship by Arab countries—a policy designed to keep the conflict alive. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees were welcomed and absorbed by Israel, where they rebuilt their lives and contributed to the nation’s success.

O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56