Religion is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as follows:

1: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

2 a(1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural

(2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance

b : the state of a religious a nun in her 20th year of religion

3:  a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

4 archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness

Does secular humanism fall into the category of religion? It certainly is a contentious issue, and some consider it as such. The Humanist Manifestos I, II, and III are designed to establish and clarify the Humanist’s belief system.

Although the Humanists borrow liberally from Biblical teachings/principles, they do not acknowledge a Supreme Being, nor objective authority. Instead, all reason for them originates with man and not from GOD. The Humanist has established their own culture which amounts to the application of their belief system which is inferior to the Bible and GOD’s revelation.

Of course, a cursory examination of “secular” history will reveal all sorts of misery caused by man’s self-indulgent reason. Slavery, war, murder, racism, genocide, legalized thievery, disease, poverty, starvation, etc. are all larded through in secular history. Yes, even in the Bible, there is a history of misery. The difference being that the misery was the result of not obeying GOD’s laws (Ten Commandments), and therefore suffering the consequences. Upon repentance and obedience to GOD’s laws, Israel enjoyed great peace and prosperity. It always seemed to be short lived as they kept going back to the “secular humanist” ways.

The United States Constitution was written during a time in which the preponderance of people were either Christian, or inculcated with Christian teaching and principles, so that we had a Christian culture even if it was not formally a Christian nation by civil government standards. Certainly the laws of the land conformed to Biblical teaching, but one very important idea was left out of the Constitution.

Had the framers (writers) added one simple phrase to the wording so that the Constitution would have been understood in the context of the culture of the day, then they would have called it the “supreme law of the land”, and added to that phrase; AS LONG AS IT DID NOT CONTRADICT THE BIBLE’S MORAL LAWS! Because the preponderance of people already accepted Biblical moral laws, that wording was not included, but, today, for those who are Christian, or at least want a righteous society, they can plainly see the necessity of that wording!

Today, our national, and in many cases state, governments accept blasphemy; taking the LORD’s name in vain publicly, in movies, on TV etc., murder in the form of abortion; sexual perversion; in the form of adultery, fornication, homosexuality, transgenderism, pornography, pedophilia, child sex trafficking etc., stealing; in the form of fiat currency, theft, lawfare etc., debt; municipal, county, state, and federal bonds, credit cards, rapid loans, store credit, auto loans etc., violation of the Sabbath; open stores, failure to attend church etc., lying; political lies, corporate lies to get you to buy and use products, business lies to get you to do things you might not otherwise do, lies from big media etc., Crimes that go unpunished, or underpunished etc. More could be named, but this is sufficient to make the point.

Under the Secular Humanist rubric, right and wrong are determined by the individual and their own specific morality. That, of course, puts into question how a society can survive if there are no overarching constraints or restraints to give cohesion to a people. It’s, so to say, your truth, but not my truth. Of course, if truth is arbitrary, then there is no universal truth, and therefore, as Jeremiah 23:17 lamented in his writings; every man was doing what was right in his own eyes.

Under secular humanism, the most popular government apart from a dictatorship is democracy – rule by the majority. James Madison lamented that “…democracies are short lived and die violent deaths.” The reason being that the majority is not always right. Majorities are often times manipulated into pursuing objectives that are contrary to their own best interests.

The logical conclusion from that kind of thinking is that might makes right! Those with the greatest numbers, the biggest guns, the best rhetoric (lies/propaganda) etc. will be the ones who dominate, and the rest must submit, be marginalized, exiled or die! Of course, if a large enough minority exists that disagrees with those “mighty ones”, then it will come down to civil, or some kind of, war! War of course empowers governments, sheds blood, destroys property, moves boundaries, overthrows the established order, creates uncomfortable, but necessary alliances and forces people to do things they might not have otherwise ever thought of let alone done etc.

Politics and religion are the two things that either hold together or divide people. Religion, from this writer’s viewpoint, is a societal method of establishing what is right and wrong (and should be arrived at objectively), and the right and wrong protocols for adjudicating any differences of opinions. Politics is a nonviolent method of establishing what religion will rule in a society. Politics is peaceful warfare! If peaceful warfare doesn’t work, then the warfare will become violent.

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