Toward a New Religion: A Humanist Cult of the Secular [OPEN]

La Salette Journey ^ | 5/11/2010 | Paul Melanson

[markomalley]

"Christ becomes the flame of human efforts, he reveals himself as the form of faith which is most appropriate for modern needs - a religion for progress, the religion even for progress on earth; I dare say: the religion of evolution." - Pere Teilhard de Chardin

We are witnessing the gradual emergence of a new humanitarian religion which proposes man, instead of God, as the object of worship. This "religion for progress," as Teilhard de Chardin referred to it, is anti-supernatural. Robert Hugh Benson describes it in his classic "The Lord of the World" thusly:

"Humanitarianism...is becoming the an actual religion itself, though anti-supernatural. It is a Pantheism. Pantheism deifies all nature, God is the world, but naturally, man above all is God since he is the highest expression of nature. It is a religion devoid of the 'super' natural, because since God is nature itself, there is no longer a distinction between Creator and creature. The creature is God and hence arbitrator of his own destinyand establishes the moral law for himself. Nature, and man is its highest expression, has all the divine attributes. Humanitarianism is a religion devoid of the supernatural. It is developing a ritual under Freemasonry; it has a creed, 'God is man'; and the rest. It has, therefore, a real food of a sort to offer religious cravings: it idealizes, and yet makes no demands upon the spiritual faculties. Then, they have the use of all the churches except ours, and of all the Cathedrals; and they are beginning at last to encourage sentiment. Then they may display their symbols and we may not..."

Marxism was an expression of the humanitarian religion. It worshipped society and the state symbols of the party: Lenin, Stalin and Mao. National Socialism deified the state and its Fuhrer Adolph Hitler. Today the United States is moving toward Socialism and that "..supreme religious deception..that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 675).

How can Vice-President Joseph Biden, a Catholic (at least in name) make an appearance on Good Morning America and defend the nomination of an avowed Socialist for the Supreme Court of the United States? Albert Drexel, in Ein Neuer Prophet? (Stein am Rhein: Christiana, 1971) explains that:

"The modernism or neo-modernism within Christianity, and especially within the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, is above all characterized by a turning away from the supernatural and an exclusive predilection for this world, the Aggiornamento of Pope John XXIII interpreted one-sidedly and hence misapplied. Teilhard's ideology was was a definitive precondition for this. Inasmuch as he turned his back to the past, fused God and the supernatural with the process of a universal evolutionism, and proclaimed religion to be an active participation in a progressive development ending in Point Omega, the basis was given for a humanist cult of the secular." (p. 115).

In the New World Order, man will no longer believe in a God whom he cannot control. Man will worship himself and his new leader who will, like Hitler, be deified: the man spoken of by Saint Paul as the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition. This world ruler will not tolerate anyone who adores any god other than himself. As Romano Guardini has noted, "The ultimate aim of all aims will be to prove that existence without Christ is possible - nay rather, that Christ is the enemy of existence, which can be fully realized only when all Christian values have been destroyed.." (The Lord, p. 513).

[markomalley]

(BTW, the referenced work of Benson is very good and highly recommended)

[massgopguy]

The Humanists took over France and called it the Age of Reason. They even turned the churches into Temples of Reason. History in hindsight calls it the Reign of Terror. It ended with a Guillotine.

[Migraine]

There are those who posit a Christian humanism. No such thing can exist, as Christianity and humanism are polar opposites. It is one or the other; or some half-A phantasm; but it can’t be fully both.

In humanism, man is the measure of all things. It begins with that statement. In Christianity, the Word was with God and was God, from the beginning; He is Alpha and Omega, First and Last, the Judge of the whole earth.

The idea of Christian humanism is fatuous. Might as well be Alice in Wonderland.

[RobbyS]

The worship of man is really the worship of the unstinted will, of Lucifer who wears the mask of Apollo.

[RobbyS]

Man is the measure of all things. No any man, of course, but Christ. He is he who is the perfect man. against whom all are measured.

[mjp]

Secular humanism:

theology: atheism
philosophy: naturalism
ethics: moral relativism
biology:neo-Darwinian evolution
psychology: monism (self-actualization)
sociology: non-traditional institutions of family, church, state
law: positive law
politics: modern liberalism (secular world government)
economics: government interventionism
history: historical evolution