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Babes in Secular-Land
Dear caring Friend,
That special time of year is here—a time when most of us are even busier than usual…
Yet it’s also a time when people from all walks of life are reminded about being thankful, about giving, and about doing good to others.
And it’s a time when the birth of Jesus, with all its miraculous events, takes front and center before the whole world. The central story of the season is that God in His great love gave us the absolutely greatest gift, the most important thing we ever needed. In response to God’s gift, we are moved to give to others.
It’s amazing how even non-Christians have taken up the gift-giving customs of Christians at Christmas! Jesus has always been the reason for the season, and He still is.
If you’re like me, you get a little irritated at the substitution of “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas” and “winter break” for “Christmas Vacation.” The ACLU, secular humanists, and multiculturalists have attempted to ban nativity scenes and suppress even the mention of the word “Christmas.” It’s shocking how the worldly spirit of anti-Christ affects even His respectful mention in our regular language. Today, there is an attitude and a worldview that wants to rid the world of the testimony of God in Christ.
What is the intellectual justification for this anti-Christ thinking? In short, it is the doctrine of evolution.
The Onslaught of Secular Humanism
John Dewey, who began a reform of American education in the first half of the 20th century, co-authored The Humanist Manifesto in 1934. This is a document based on The Communist Manifesto, which Dewey admired.
Among other things, Humanist Manifesto “affirms a self-existing, non-created universe” and claims that “the time has passed for theism.” Humanism directly contradicts Romans 1:18-23—it is a suppression of the truth!
The atheistic claims of The Humanist Manifesto gained currency because of the ascendancy of evolutionary theory in the 1930s. Consider the rapid advancement of evolutionary theory in just one year...
In 1934, the fraudulent Piltdown Man was believed by scientists to be the definitive missing link between apes and humans. That same year, the fraudulent Haeckel drawings of human embryo growth were said by scientists to show the stages of evolutionary development from fish to reptile to person. And, again in 1934, the now-debunked field of eugenics was held up by educated scientists to define the superiority of “more advanced” races of humans (those supposedly higher up the evolutionary ladder).
Evolution is indeed built upon a lie. Evolution does not invite or presuppose the existence of God. It presupposes Godlessness.
Dewey was an atheist and a socialist who was interested in using public schools to establish “a new social order”—a social order that melted individual minds into a new “social mind.” Under this new order, no longer would serving and glorifying God be the highest goal. Instead, the collective activities of humanity would become the overriding ideal.
This philosophy—in reality, a religion founded on atheism and evolutionism—has become known as secular humanism.
Secular humanism is the religion of our public schools and institutions. It has taken over our best universities (even those like Harvard and Yale, which were founded as theological schools). By the 1950s, fully 40% of all academic deans at teacher colleges had received advanced degrees under Dewey. Dewey’s ideas have dominated the eduation of educators all over the country for nearly six decades. He and his “progressivists” well understood Abraham Lincoln’s observation that the “philosophy of the classroom in this generation will be the philosophy of politics, government, and life in the next.”
The intellectual justification of Godlessness has led to a proliferation of meaninglessness.
In a landmark 1962 decision, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional what had been fully constitutional for 175 years! The Court outlawed Bible reading and a 22-word prayer recited in the schools of New York. In so doing, it radically re-interpreted what the Founding Fathers meant by the word “religion” in the First Amendment phrase “there shall be no establishment of religion.”
Based on The Federalist Papers, other writings of the Founding Fathers, and their own practice in government assembly, the Founders intended the establishment clause to prevent one Christian denomination from superceding other Christian denominations in the government of the United States. The Founding Fathers would be horrified to find the establishment clause as justification to remove religion from the public square!
Imagine an America without legalized abortion. An America free of X-rated or R-rated movies. An America with no co-ed dorms on college campuses, no homosexual movement, and a low divorce rate. An America where businesses close on Sundays and the most common discipline problems are gum-chewing and talking in class. Sound far-fetched? That was America before 1962!
The Supreme Court’s 1962 decision was the opening salvo against what, until then, had been a God-honoring society. That first attack spawned a humanist revolution that continues to radically reshape our society.
Yet even in today’s atheistic culture, the Christmas message cannot be stifled…
God with Us
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be the sign unto you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger” (Luke 2:11-12).
Ah, the wonderful image of the infant Jesus Christ—such helplessness, such humble circumstance, such complete identification with our own frailty and need.
We all understand the situation of a newborn baby. For God to become a human infant is a complete identification with us. God with us—Emmanuel! We all needed our parents’ care as newborns—that’s part of the human condition. Spiritually, we need God to pick us up and to hold us. We need God to bathe and clean us. We need God’s touch in order to grow alert, happy, healthy and strong.
Life without God is meaningless: we live, we suffer, then we die. No wonder suicide rates are increasing for teens in our secularized society. This is yet another indicator of the hopelessness of Godlessness.
But the whole truth is that God our Creator is real and personal, He cares about us, He has made a way to restore us to Himself, and he desires to nurture us as the helpless babes we really are.
Listen to the lyrics of Peter Furler and Steve Taylor of the Newsboys in the song “Thrive”:
Down here in the valley every puddle of mud
Comes from tears and blood
And it’s so hard just to get warm
That the chill turns into despair
Will you lift me up with tender care
Will you wash me clean in the palm of your hands.
Lord hold me close so I can thrive
When you touch me that’s when I know I’m alive.”
Without loving touch from their parents, infants simply don’t grow and develop. Doctors refer to this syndrome as “failure to thrive.” Spiritually, failure to thrive occurs when we reject the touch of the personal Creator who has reached out to us in Jesus Christ.
At Creation Moments we want to touch more and more people with the cleansing truth of God. Our newly revamped website is receiving more traffic than ever before, with recordings being catalogued and made available by secular internet sound providers, multiplying the outreach of biblical creation truth. Our growth in this area is truly amazing to me! And we are moving forward with our vision to create a version of Creation Moments for younger generations with a new, dynamic format. We foresee that implementing this additional format will more than double our outreach in the future.
These developments are very exciting. They come at a time when evolution is increasingly on the defensive in public opinion, recently losing ground in Kansas where the State School Board voted to allow the teaching of evolution’s weaknesses.
Now is the time to concentrate our efforts. Now is the time to step up and turn the tables on humanist educators. Now is the time to lead people to truth.
Will you help us?
The world is a mess. People are a mess. Without God, we can only despair.
But God the Creator reaches into our mess, picks us up, washes us clean, gives us health and well-being, and helps us learn to walk. God is our hope—He wants us to thrive!
Why do we let evolutionism ruin so many lives? As Edmond Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Will you help us do something? This Christmas season please consider an extra gift to the ministry of Creation Moments. We are doing everything we can to bring the life-giving, God-honoring message of creation to our time and culture. And we can’t do it without you!
Thanks so very much, and may God richly bless you and your family this Christmas.
Yours in Christ,
Mark Cadwallader, Chairman
References
Romans 1:18-23Luke 2:11-12
Stormer, J.A., None Dare Call It Education: What’s Happening in Our Schools, Liberty Bell Press, Florissant, Missouri, 1998.
Furler, P, and Taylor, S., “Thrive”, Dawn Treader Music (Admin. by Christian Music Publishing) 2001
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