Secularism
What is secularism? (YT Video)
Christians are secularists
Don't believe in theocratic gov
Believe in separation of church and state
Americans believe in full separation
Now defined as: "without God"
Government without God
Life without God
Education without God
Disastrous
Righteousness exalts a nation
Sins are reproach to any people
Shift in authority
State is the only authority (not God)
Atheist Fundamentalist Secularism
Uses "old secularism" as a guise to push fundamentalist atheism on society
Was America Funded to Be Secular? (YT Video)
Founders believed you can't have freedom without religion.
All men are endowed by their Creator
We do not give rights but protect the rights given by God
A moral people is what is required to police itself
Morals come from outside of us, God
Liberty came with moral demands/boundaries
Dangers of freedom/liberty apart from religion
Too much liberty
No morality
Unrestrained pleasure
Religion is Essential
Belief in God is essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man
Constitution was made only for moral and religious people
Constitution is inadequate for the unreligious
Results in violence and chaos
Annihilates the foundations of social order
Religion is required for a society to survive
Judeo-Christian principles
The Endgame of Secularism (Article)
Premodern Age
Impossible not to believe
No intellectual alternatives to theism
Modern Age
Impossible to believe
Intellectual choice rules
Theism is not a viable worldview
Disbelief/Lack of commitment to a self-existent, self-revealing God
Pervasive Individualism
Heretical Imperative
Imperative to choose one's worldview
Authority
Unable to believe in a personal God who holds authority over all
Does not reject all religion
"Spiritual" and "Religion" without a personal, authoritative God
Cross-pressured
Personal Experience
Rejection of authority
Moral Revolution
Unprecedented
No endgame in mind
Personal Autonomy/Self-defining
Progress
Requires rejection of religion
No Christian morality
Seeks human "liberation"
"Christian Intellectual Outlaws"
Theists break the modernistic rules
Moving from proposition to command and law and authority from God
Everything is reduced to choice in the pursuit of personal fulfillment
Saint Augustine
Christians are citizens of two cities
Heavenly City
Earthly City
Eternal
Unmoved
Unshakable
Our future
Passing like a vapor
God still takes pleasure in it
Divine Compassion
Current home in which we work to see as many people become citizens of the Heavenly City
Must be "true to myself"
Might miss what being human is for me