We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion – intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions of "heretics," holy wars. Though far from the whole story, they are, nevertheless, true. There have been many awful consequences of religion.Well said! History has given secular humanists their chance - and look at the mess they've got us into. Socially, morally, spiritually our society is far worse off than it used to be a couple of generations ago. Fancy gadgets, brain rotting music and TV shows or any other dubious pleasures the secular lifestyle can offer, turn out to be poor substitutes to spiritual fulfillment, they can't compensate for the lack of peace in the family, in the community or at workplace...
What one almost never hears described are the deleterious consequences of secularism – the terrible developments that have accompanied the breakdown of traditional religion and belief in God. For every thousand students who learn about the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials, maybe two learn to associate Gulag, Auschwitz, the Cultural Revolution and the Cambodian genocide with secular regimes and ideologies.
For all the problems associated with belief in God, the death of God leads to far more of them.
So, while it is not possible to prove (or disprove) God's existence, what is provable is what happens when people stop believing in God.
And another thing: Whatever rights and freedoms we still have left - we've inherited them from the good old days when the society was still guided by Judeo-Christian principles. Secularists were only capable of eroding our constitutional rights and freedoms by awarding more power to unelected bureaucrats and more privileges to special interest groups.
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"History had given secular humanists their chance - and look at the mess they've got us into."
Since that sentence is grammatically incorrect, I'm going to assume that you mistyped "has", since the 's' and 'd' keys are right next to each other on a keyboard. Of course your statement is still demonstrably unreasonable.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao & the Khmer Rouge no more represent "secular humanists" than the Spanish Inquisition represents "Christians". One might as well say that history has given Christians their chance, and look at the mess they made.
Generalizing is foolish.
I corrected the typo. Thanks for pointing that out.
<<Stalin, Hitler, Mao & the Khmer Rouge no more represent "secular humanists" than the Spanish Inquisition represents "Christians".>> Even if that's the case and those "people's democratic" regimes don't actually represent secular humanists - what about the "Humanist Association of Canada"? (The one that made chief abortionist Morguentaler their honorary president?)
Or what about all the "human rights" tribunals where truth is not a defense and where one could be convicted based on nothing but assumption of what might have happened? Could it be that an organization that has "human rights" in its name and that tells pastors what they shouldn't preach, has absolutely nothing to do with secular humanism? I doubt it.
Finally - is there at least one country where a secularist rule didn't bring about social and cultural decay, population aging, erosion of civil rights and mass extermination - no longer through concentration camps but through abortion?
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