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